Metoisops Popov and Herczek 1992
Creators: name: Kim, Junggon
name: Taszakowski, Artur
name: Herczek, Aleksander
name: Zmarzły, Marzena
name: Jung, Sunghoon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Metoisops

description: Key to the species of extinct genus Metoisops (updated from Herczek and Popov 2014)
1. Pronotum very broad, posterior width not less than 2.4× midline length.................................................. 2
– Pronotum not very broad, posterior width less than 2.4× midline length............................. ....................... 3
2. Pronotum wider than 3× midline length; head width subequal to 3× head length.............................. M. akingbohungbei
– Pronotum subequal to 2.4× midline length; head width subequal to 2.5× head length.................................. M. groehni
3. Head transverse, width more than 2.6× length................. 4
– Head width not more than 2.6× length........................ 7
4. Dorsal width of single compound eye more than 2× vertex width.......................................................... 5
– Dorsal width of single compound eye not more than 2× vertex width................................................. 6
5. Dorsal width of single compound eye subequal 2× vertex width; pronotum posterior width subequal to 2.1× midline length..................................................... M. kerzhneri
– Dorsal width of single compound eye subequal 2.9× vertex width; pronotum posterior width subequal to 1.9 midline length................. M. michalskii Kim, Taszakowski, and Herczek sp. nov.
6. Body large, more than 3 mm; ratio of scutellum and commissure lengths = ca. 1.. M. popovi Kim, Taszakowski, and Jung sp. nov.
– Body less than 3 mm; ratio of scutellum and commissure lengths = ca. 1.2...................................... M. grabenhorsti
7. Head width subequal to 2.2–2.35× midline length............. 8
– Head width subequal to 2.5× midline length.................. 9
8. Ratio of pronotum anterior and posterior widths 1.85–2.0; claval commissure shorter, ratio of claval commissure and mesoscutum + scutellum lengths ca. 1.25–1.27............... M. punctatus
– Ratio of pronotum anterior and posterior widths ca. 1.65; claval commissure shorter, ratio of claval commissure and mesoscutum + scutellum lengths more than 1.5................. M. consimilis
9. Mesoscutum broad, 1.8× length subequal to scutellum length; hemelytra with scattered punctuate corium and clavus and delicate pubescence......................... M. punctatodiffusus
– Mesoscutum distinctly narrow, 4× length subequal to scutellum length............................................. 10
10. Dorsal width of single compound eye less than ca. 1.65× vertex width; scutellum slightly wrinkled; cuneus coloration uniform................................................. M. variabilis
– Dorsal width of single compound eye more than ca. 1.65× vertex width; scutellum shiny and impunctate; cuneus coloration not uniform, its apex dark brown.................... M. intergerivus
description: Published as part of Kim, Junggon, Taszakowski, Artur, Herczek, Aleksander, Zmarzły, Marzena & Jung, Sunghoon, 2023, New species of mirid insects and their importance for the higher classification of plant bugs, pp. 75-83 in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 68 (1) on page 82, DOI: 10.4202/app.00991.2022, http://zenodo.org/record/10981111