Compsidolon Reuter, 1899

Li, Xiao-Ming & Liu, Guo-Qing, 2014, A study on the genus Compsidolon Reuter, 1899 from China (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae), with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 3784 (4), pp. 469-483 : 470-471

Compsidolon Reuter, 1899

Compsidolon Reuter, 1899: 147 ; Wagner and Weber, 1964: 487; Wagner, 1965: 116; Wagner, 1975: 136; Linnavuori, 1992: 22; Linnavuori, 1993: 206; Schuh,1995: 294; Kerzhner and Josifov, 1999: 328; Li and Liu, 2007: 766. Type secies: Compsidolon elegantulum Reuter, 1899 (by monotypy).

Diagnosis. Body elongate or oval, macropterous, small to moderately large, total length ranging from 2.00 to 5.00; body surface dull to moderately shining; dorsum greenish, yellowish, whitish, brownish or brown in part and always with dark spots (sometimes the spots not obvious, as in C. kerzhneri ); vestiture commonly covered with recumbent, simple setae and weakly adpressed, silvery setae; head declivent, wider than high, with slightly protruding frons and clypeus; antennae relatively long, segment II slender and no obvious sexual dimorphism; labium reaching from near apex of hind coxae to onto abdomen; pronotum transverse; tibial spines dark, commonly with dark base, tibiae dark or not at articulation with femora; claws slender, weakly and evenly curving, pulvillus relatively small, flaplike, and situated slightly beyond base of claw, parempodia setiform. Male genitalia: Typical phylini structure, endosoma often sigmoid, with one or two apical spines at apex; phallotheca curving, attenuated apically, and without distinctive ornamentation; left paramere boat-shaped; right paramere lanceolate.

Discussion. The dorsum with dark spots much similar to those of the genus Camptotylidea Wagner , but in Camptotylidea spp. the tibial spines more pale, without clear spots at their base, the pulvilli always extending beyond middle to near apex of claw and generality with rather broad base, and the endosoma very thin and usually C-shaped.