A new genus, three new species, and new records of plant bugs from Korea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae: Phylini)
Author
Duwal, Ram Keshari
Author
Lee, Seunghwan
seung@snu.ac.kr
text
Zootaxa
2011
2011-10-05
3049
47
58
journal article
1175-5326
Moissonia befui
Yasunaga, 1999
Figures: 1, 3K
Moissonia befui
Yasunaga, 1999: 196
(n. sp., diag., desc., figs.); 2001: 166 (diag., fig.).
Diagnosis.
Recognized by small, oval, pale-green body; semitransparent dorsum furnished with short reclining pubescence and dark setae; shining pronotum with numerous dark spots; and dark brown femora with large black spots apically.
FIGURE 1.
Dorsal habitus of
phylini
.
Female
genitalia (
Fig. 3K
): Sclerotized rings thick rimmed, bursa copulatrix with somewhat sclerotized vertically U-shaped structure in middle, furnished with minute spines and laterally attached with membranes.
Measurements.
(
♀
). (1): Body length 3.20; head width across eyes 0.80; vertex width 0.39; lengths of antennal segments I–IV: 0.22, 0.81, 0.53, 0.41; length of labium 1.11; mesal pronotal length 0.56; basal pronotal width 1.26; width across hemelytron 1.42; and lengths of metafemur, tibia and tarsus: 1.05, 1.56, 0.35.
Specimens examined.
South Korea
:
Gyeongsangbuk-do
:
1♀
,
Ulleungdo
(Is.),
8.viii.2010
;
R
.
K. Duwal
(SNU)
.
Distribution.
Japan
,
Korea
(South).
Discussion.
In
Korea
, this species emerged in late spring and was collected on a unknown wild flowering creeper.