Psallops niedzwiedzkii Herczek & Popov, 2016

Taszakowski, Artur, Kim, Junggon, Kaszyca-Taszakowska, Natalia, Gierlasiński, Grzegorz & Jung, Sunghoon, 2025, Taxonomic review of the genus Psallops Usinger, 1946 (Hemiptera: Miridae) from the Afrotropical Region, with descriptions of two new species and a discussion on the internal revision of Psallops, Zootaxa 5646 (4), pp. 545-561 : 557-558

Psallops niedzwiedzkii Herczek & Popov in Herczek et al. 2016b

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Psallops niedzwiedzkii Herczek & Popov in Herczek et al. 2016b: 163 , figs 1–7 (new species), 167 (map of distribution), 168 (key); Kim et al. 2025: 197 (list).

Diagnosis. Separated by the following combination of characters: dorsum generally reddish brown; interocular distance short, subequal to 1/2 single compound eye width; clypeus and maxillary plate paler; hemelytra partly brown and reddish brown, somewhat sub-hyaline; corium mostly brown, outer area near embolium tinged with red; clavus mostly brown, inner part reddish brown; embolium darker, being more reddish toward posterior part; cuneus mostly reddish brown, inner part tinged with red; fore and mid tibiae pale brown; hind tibia partly pale brown and reddish brown, 1/2 basal part reddish brown, with one row of brownish spines on external surface; length of spines longer than diameter of tibia; tarsi pale brown, two-segmented; left paramere with broad sensory lobe, somewhat protuberant; endosoma with two types of sclerotized appendages, one bunch of short and dense spicules and one bunch of eight sublinear spicules with different lengths (updated from Herczek et al. 2016b).

Description. See Herczek et al. (2016b) for the original description.

Material examined. Holotype: ♂, ‘X. 65, Forest , Ghana, 2°28'W, 5°25'N, L. R. Cole. D. Leston coll. BM. 1976- 509’ ( ZMUC).

Distribution. Ghana (central).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Psallops linnavuorii Herczek, Popov & Gorczyca, 2016, holotype, male (A, B); Psallops niedzwiedzkii Herczek & Popov, 2016, holotype, male (C, D); Psallops webbi Herczek & Popov, 2014, holotype, male (E).