A new species of psallopinous plant bug from the Malay Peninsula (Heteroptera, Miridae, Psallopinae)

Abstract

The paper presents description and illustrations of a new peculiar species from the genus Psallops, P. coloratus sp. n. from Southeast Asia (Singapore). Photographs, line drawings of the general habitus and a short comparison with a species from Thailand are provided.

First record of the subfamily Psallopinae (Heteroptera: Miridae) from Australia and discussion of its systematic position and diagnostic characters

“…6 in Herczek et al . ), and all Australian Psallops species have a similar shape of the left paramere (Figs e, j and e). However, this structure is very simple and occurs in some Isometopinae (Namyatova & Cassis ).…”

“…Herczek et al . () reported the shape of the left paramere of Psallops species to be similar across species. Although they did not elaborate on fine details, we found the left paramere in the material that we examined to be uniformly simple, strongly curved and swollen in the basal half (e.g.…”

“…Many authors have confirmed that Psallops has a two‐segmented hind tarsus (Schuh , ; Yasunaga ; Lin ; Herczek & Popov ; Herczek et al . , , ). Among Australian Psallops , the hind tarsus is two‐segmented in P. kimberley and P. cookensis , but three‐segmented in P. kalumburu .…”

“…Extant genera include Isometocoris Carvalho and Sailer, 1954 (two species) and Psallops Usinger (18 extant and three fossil species; Schuh ; Herczek ; Herczek & Popov ; Herczek et al . , , , ).…”

Psallops niedzwiedzkii, a new species from Ghana with a key to African species (Heteroptera, Miridae, Psallopinae)

“…To date, only two species that belong to the subfamily Psallopinae have been described from Africa, Psallops webbii Herczek & Popov, 2014 (Herczek and Popov 2014) and Psallops linnavuorii Herczek, Popov & Gorczyca, 2016 (Herczek et al 2016). Psallops webbii was collected by R. E. Linnavuori in Igboho-Kiohi (the northern part of Oyo province in western Nigeria) in July 1973 (the second specimen of Psallops webbii comes from Equatoria (south Sudan) and was collected by R.E.…”