Phytocoris nowickyi Fieber, 1870

(Figs. 1 E, 8)

Phytocoris nowickyi Fieber, 1870: 261 (sp. nov.); Josifov & Kerzhner, 1972: 162 (cat., North Korea distr.); Schuh, 1995: 895 (cat.); Kerzhner & Josifov, 1999: 152 (cat., in subgenus Ktenocoris Wagner, 1954); Yasunaga, 2001: 256 (diag.); Zheng et al., 2004: 513 (diag.); Schuh, 2002–2014: (cat.); Yasunaga & Schwartz, 2015: 42 (diag., key to Japanese spp.).

Diagnosis. Recognized by its moderate size and reddish mottled dorsum; antennal segment III long, clearly longer than basal width of pronotum; female always brachypterous. For more diagnostic characters, description and figures, see Wagner & Weber (1964), Kerzhner (1988a), Zheng et al. (2004), Rieger (2006), Yasunaga & Schwartz (2015).

Distribution. China, Europe, Japan, Korea, Far-East Russia.

Host plants. Asteraceae and Fabaceae herbs, and deciduous willows, Salix spp. ( Salicaceae) (Yasunaga & Schwartz, 2015).

Remarks. Our field investigations in Korea could not successfully produce any specimen of P. nowickyi . Our recognition of this taxon was based upon examination of Japanese and Far-East Russian material.

Material examined. Japan, Hokkaido: Tokachi: 2♀, Hiroo, Oshirabetsu, Salix sp., 19. viii. 1995, Y. Todo (TYCN) ; 2♂, Churui, Horokayanto (lake), Artemisia sp., 2. viii. 1995, T. Yasunaga (TYCN) ; 7♂, 1♀, Kami- Ashoro, Salix spp., 23. viii. 1995, Y. Todo (TYCN) . Ishikari: 11♂, 7♀ Tobetsu, Aoyama, mainly from Artemisia spp., viii–ix. 1997, Endo et al. (TYCN) . Russia: 2♂, S. Primorsky Territory, Khasanskii Dist., Ryazanovka, 10km NE of Sukhanovka, light trap, 26–27. vii. 1993, T. Yasunaga (TYCN) .