Psallops webbi Herczek & Popov, 2014

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 : 558

Psallops webbi Herczek & Popov, 2014

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Psallops webbi Herczek & Popov 2014a: 372 , figs 7–12 (new species); Kim et al. 2025: 197 (list).

Psallops webbii [sic!] Herczek et al. 2016b: 167 (map of distribution), 168 (diagnosis, key).

Diagnosis. Recognized by the following combination of characters: dorsum partly pale brown and reddish brown; interocular distance somewhat long, subequal to single compound eye width; clypeus and mandibular plate pale brown; hemelytra partly pale brown and fuscous; anterior part of corium pale brown, base tinged with red, posterior part mostly fuscous, with pale marking; clavus partly pale and fuscous, inner part fuscous; embolium darker, being dark brown toward posterior part, apical part tinged with red; cuneus mostly dark brown; legs partly pale brown and reddish brown; hind femur entirely reddish brown; tibiae entirely pale brown, with one row of pale spines; length of spines slightly longer than diameter of tibia; tarsi pale brown, two-segmented; left paramere with long apical process, with broad sensory lobe, somewhat protuberant apically (updated from Herczek & Popov (2014a) and Herczek et al. (2016b)).

Description. See Herczek & Popov (2014a) for the original description.

Material examined. Holotype: ♂, ‘Igboho-Kiohi, 8. 07. 1973, Nigeria, R. Linnavuori’; paratype: ♂, ‘ Sudan, Equatoria \ Maridi \ 16.IV.63 \ Linnavouri \\ G. Schmitz det. 1977 \ Psallops ceassifemur \ sp.n. ♂ ’ ( BMNH).

Distribution. West Nigeria, South Sudan.

Remarks: Herczek & Popov (2014a) provide incomplete data from the paratype labels, which are supplemented above.

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).