Psallops webbii Herczek & Popov, 2015

Herczek, Aleksander, Popov, Yuri A. & Gorczyca, Jacek, 2016, Psallopsniedzwiedzkii, a new species from Ghana with a key to African species (Heteroptera, Miridae, Psallopinae), ZooKeys 603, pp. 161-169 : 166

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Miridae

Psallops webbii Herczek & Popov, 2015

Diagnosis.

Male. General colouration of head, pronotum, prosternum, mesosternum, metasternum, first segment of labium, cuneus and anterior margin of hemelytron uniformly dark brown. Mandibular plates, clypeus, antennal segment I, fore and middle legs, tibiae and tarsi of hind legs and labium (except segment I) pale yellow. Eyes reddish-brown with paler edges. Mesoscutum, scutellum and metafemora reddish brown. Corium yellowish brown with anterior portion paler. Corium with small red patches adjoining cuneus. Membrane grey-brown, weakly creased and covered with very fine setae. Body surface slightly crumpled and semi-dull. Mesoscutum and scutellum glossy basally.. Labium long, almost reaching apex of hind coxae; labial segment I reaching middle of mesofemur. Tibiae with sparsely distributed pale spines on external surface; length of spines slightly longer than diameter tibia.