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

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5646.4.4

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BA39516C-A2C0-4426-BDB3-D52F9EE919EC

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15819410

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scientific name

Psallops webbi Herczek & Popov, 2014
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Psallops webbi Herczek & Popov, 2014

( Fig. 1E View FIGURE 1 )

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

Psallops webbii [sic!] Herczek et al. 2016b: 167 View Cited Treatment (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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Miridae

SubFamily

Psallopinae

Genus

Psallops

Loc

Psallops webbi Herczek & Popov, 2014

Taszakowski, Artur, Kim, Junggon, Kaszyca-Taszakowska, Natalia, Gierlasiński, Grzegorz & Jung, Sunghoon 2025
2025
Loc

Psallops webbi

Kim, J. & Taszakowski, A. & Phan, Q. T. & Jung, S. 2025: 197
Herczek, A. & Popov, Y. A. 2014: 372
2014
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