Psallus amoenus Josifov, 1983

Konstantinov, Fedor V., 2016, New synonymies in the plant bug family Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Northern China, Zootaxa 4205 (5), pp. 496-500 : 498

Psallus amoenus Josifov, 1983 ( Figures 3–4 )

Psallus amoenus Josifov, 1983: 208 .

Psallus henanensis Li & Liu, 2007: 675 . New synonymy.

Li & Liu (2007) described Psallus henanensis from Henan, Northeastern China . Although I was not able to examine the type series of this species, the detailed original description and illustrations allow for the conclusion that this species is conspecific with Psallus amoenus Josifov. The latter species was described from the vicinity of Pyongyang, North Korea and can be recognized from congeners by the J–shaped vesica with distinct subapical process and finely serrated lobe at the base of apical blade, and characteristically twin–coned right paramere ( Figs. 3–4 and 52–55 in Josifov 1983). Psallus henanensis Li & Liu is morphologically inseparable from P. amoenus Josifov and, thus, a junior synonym.

The second species described in the same paper, Psallus fortis Li & Liu may represent a synonym of Psallus castaneae Josifov, 1983 but I have not examined males of both species and refrain from synonymizing them here.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 11. Vesica: 1 — Anonychiella brevicornis (Reuter, 1879) (AMNH _ PBI 00337486); 2 — Glaucopterum putshkovi Kerzhner, 1984 (AMNH _ PBI 00159143); 3 – 4 — Psallus amoenus Josifov, 1983 (AMNH _ PBI 00240707); 5 – 6 — Solenoxyphus salsolae Konstantinov, 2008 (AMNH _ PBI 00141377); 7 – 8 — Tuponia kiritshenkoi Drapolyuk, 1982 (AMNH _ PBI 00249728); 9 — Tuponia prasina (Fieber, 1864) (AMNH _ PBI 00337899); 10 – 11 — Tuponia jaxartensis Drapolyuk, 1980 (AMNH _ PBI 00340905).