Myiomma Puton 1872
Creators: name: Oh, Minsuk
name: Kim, Wonwoong
name: Kim, Wongun
name: Lee, Seunghwan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Myiomma

description: Key to species of East Asian Myiomma
1. Pronotum entirely brown to black, without a pale spot (lateral margin reddish brown in M. zhengi).................... 2
- Pronotum with a pale spot, lateral margin with pale portion (often entirely dark brown in M. kukai male)............... 8
2. Inner margin of compound eye conjoined.................................................................. 3
- Inner margin of compound eye narrowly separated from each other............................................. 5
3. Body large, about 2.70 mm ....................................................................... M. altica
- Body comparatively small, about 2.1–2.4 mm .............................................................. 4
4. Male procoxa and all femora pale brown. Female with mostly pale hemelytra, partly darkened at corial margin along clavus and inner-apical margin. Inner margin of left paramere sensory lobe with distinct protrusion, outer margin smooth..................................................................................................... M. takahashii
- Male coxae mostly dark brown and femora dark brown with a reddish tinge and pale apices. Female with blackish brown hemelytra. Inner margin of left paramere sensory lobe with weak protrusion, outer margin angulate with border of hypophysis.................................................................................... M. koreana sp. nov.
5. Basal half of hemelytra with distinct entirely pale portion............................................... M. choui
- Hemelytra widely dark brown, often with narrow, pale markings at base.......................................... 6
6. Cuneus with a pale or whitish band basally...................................................... M. ussuriensis
- Cuneus not basally pale or whitish, unicolorous............................................................. 7
7. Labium reaching posterior margin of abdominal sternum I......................................... M. qinlingensis
- Labium reaching abdominal sternum IV............................................................ M. zhengi
8. Basal half of metafemur darkened........................................................................ 9
- Basal half of metafemur pale yellow to pale brown......................................................... 10
9. Hypophysis of left paramere with pointed, beak-shaped apex............................................ M. kukai
- Hypophysis of left paramere with somewhat blunt apex, thickness almost uniform...................... M. samuelsoni
10. Apical half of metafemur with a brown to dark brown spot......................................... M. kentingense
- Apical half of metafemur without a distinct spot........................................................... 11
11. Mesoscutum widely dark, lateral margin narrowly pale. At least anterior 1/3 of pronotum blackish........ M. austroccidens
- Mesoscutum medially dark, laterally tinged with orange. Pronotum pale, partly darkened along callus......... M. minutum
description: Published as part of Oh, Minsuk, Kim, Wonwoong, Kim, Wongun & Lee, Seunghwan, 2025, A new species of the genus Myiomma (Heteroptera: Miridae: Isometopinae) from the Korean Peninsula, pp. 145-158 in Zootaxa 5566 (1) on page 155, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5566.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/14613027