Compsidolon Reuter
Creators: name: Li, Xiao-Ming
name: Liu, Guo-Qing
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Compsidolon

description: Key to the Chinese species of Compsidolon Reuter
1 Apex of clavus and corium darkened, forming median fuscous stripe on hemelytra................. C. nebulosum (Reuter)
- Apex of clavus and corium not forming median fuscous stripe on hemelytra....................................... 2
2 Dorsum with dark spots or without spots; hind femora almost completely dark....................... C. kerzhneri Kulik
- Dorsum with clear spots; hind femora pale with dark spots..................................................... 3
3 All tibiae pale at base.................................................................................. 4
- All tibiae darkened at base.............................................................................. 6
4 Frons with reddish brown radial stripes; length of antennal segment II shorter than width of pronotum................................................................................................... C. ailaoshanensis sp. nov.
- Frons without dark radial stripes; length of antennal segment II longer than width of pronotum........................ 5
5 Cuneus (except base) with dark spots........................................................ C. absinthii (Scott)
- Cuneus without dense spots or with hardly visible spots............................. C. salicellum (Herrich-Schaeffer)
6 Smaller species, total length less than 2.80 mm; antennal segment I almost entirely balck............ C. pumilum (Jakovlev)
- Larger species, total length more than 3.10 mm; antennal segment I paler with dark spots or without clear spots........... 7
7 Antennal segments III and IV almost entirely brown; apex of clypeus darkened.................................... 8
- Antennal segments III and IV pale; clypeus almost entirely pale................................................. 9
8 Antennal segment II with a black ring at apex; apex of endosoma Y-shaped (Fig. 36)............. C. furcillatum Li and Liu
- Antennal segment II without a black ring at apex; two apical spines at the endosoma, one slender and straight, the other shorter, unciform (Fig. 60)..................................................................... C. uncum Li and Liu
9 Labium reaching to abdomen; pronotum without dark spots..................................... C. flavidum sp. nov.
- Labium reaching to hind coxae; pronotum with clear dark spots................................................ 10
10 Interocular distance longer than width of eye in male; cuneus with dark spots....................... C. pilosum sp. nov.
- Interocular distance shorter than width of eye in male; cuneus without obvious dark spots............. C. eximium (Reuter) ......continued on the next page
description: Published as part of Li, Xiao-Ming & Liu, Guo-Qing, 2014, A study on the genus Compsidolon Reuter, 1899 from China (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae), with descriptions of three new species, pp. 469-483 in Zootaxa 3784 (4) on pages 471-472, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3784.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/225319