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Issue: Vol. 3394 No. 1: 20 Jul. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-07-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3394.1.2
Page range: 25–30
Abstract views: 45
PDF downloaded: 1

Psallus jungaricus sp. n.—a new species of plant bugs from Xinjiang (Western China) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae)

Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Prospekt Lenina 41, Yakutsk 677980, Russia
Key Laboratory of Biogeography and Bioresource in Arid Land and Xinjiang Institute of Ecology & Geography, China Academy of Sciences, 818, South Beijing Road, Urumchi, Xinjiang, 830011P. R. China
Hemiptera Miridae Heteroptera China Xinjiang taxonomy systematics

Abstract

Psallus (Psallus) jungaricus Vinokurov et Luo, sp. n., is described from northern Xinjiang (Western China, basin of theEerqisi River and Jungarian Alatau). The new species can be distinguished by the absence of a red pattern on the dorsum,and only the abdominal tergite VII in the female with small red spots. It is similar to the Euro-Siberian Psallus haematodes(Gmelin, 1790) and the Middle Eastern P. galilaeus Linnavuori 1965, and also pale specimens of the south Euro-AnatolienPsallus anaemicus Seidenstücker, 1966 in having a pale cuneus; but it differs from these species in the color pattern of the dorsum and the structure of the male genitalia.

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