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This paper presented the results of the studies on true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) alongside evaluating their potential usefulness in biomonitoring and bioindication. The studies were carried out in May and August of 2017. Three research sites situated at various distances from the full-scale plants (Grupa Azoty Zakłady Azotowe Kędzierzyn SA, Zakłady Chemiczne Petrochemia-Blachownia SA, Zakłady Koksownicze ArcelorMittal Poland Zdzieszowice) and the control area out of reach of the emission of chemical pollutants, i.e. the meadows in the Chrząstowice area of Natura 2000, have been selected for studies. All studied meadows were classified within the Molinio-Arrhenatheretea class. As a result of the studies, 619 specimens of Heteroptera representing 50 species and 14 families have been sampled. The collected material was identified using the appropriate keys for identifying true bugs and then analysed concerning zoocoenological indicators, such as species similarities, frequency, constancy, and domination. The results of the zoocoenological analyses allow the delineation of some preliminary conclusions regarding the use of true bugs in biomonitoring and bioindication. Stictopleurus punctatonervosus appeared to be a potential bioindicator, having been reaching the status of the eudominant species only in the control area, whereas it was less numerous in the research sites around the contaminations emitters. Moreover, the control area was distinguished by the highest species diversity, and the value of the species similarity index between the control area and any other research site was proved to grow along with the distance increase from the emitter source. The increased number of predatory species (mainly those of the genus Nabis) was detected in the analysed research sites surrounding the full-scale plants, and it concerned the number of individuals and species. True bugs have also appeared to be good indicators of environmental humidity because the hygrophilous species have occurred exclusively in meadows growing on strongly humid soils, while xerophilous species predominated in the sites with dry soils. Studies on evaluating the potential usefulness of true bugs in biomonitoring and bioindication have been till now conducted only sporadically; however, based on the results of the present studies, it seems to be worth continuing.

This paper is a faunistic review of 23 species of the family Saldidae occurring in Poland. The study was based on the original papers relating to the territory of Poland and on materials deposited in several institutions, i.e. University of Opole (UO), Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (ZMPA), and in Nature Collections of the Faculty of Biology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (ZPUAM). Over 4000 specimens preserved at the institutions mentioned above have been examined, identified, or their previous identifications were verified. All the localities (with their UTM coordinates) for each of the 23 species occurring in Poland are listed in alphabetical order and, consequently, presented on UTM maps (Gierlasiński 2022). Taxonomy, nomenclature and synonymies are given according to the Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region (Aukema & Rieger 1995). Zoogeograph-ical regions of Poland follow the Katalog Fauny Polski (Burakowski et al. 1973). As a result, almost 800 new records are provided, including over 30 localities recorded for the first time at the 15 zoogeographical regions: ▪ Chartoscirta cincta cincta (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1841): new to Eastern Sudetes Mts; ▪ Charoscirta cocksii (Curtis, 1835): new to Mazowiecka Lowland; ▪ Halosalda lateralis (Fallén, 1807): new to Wielkopolsko-Kujawska Lowland; ▪ Salda litoralis (Linnaeus, 1758): new to Wielkopolsko-Kujawska Lowland; ▪ Salda morio Zetterstedt, 1838: new to Baltic Coast and Nowotarska Dale; ▪ Saldula arenicola (Scholtz, 1847): new to Małopolska Upland, Sandomierska Lowland, Świętokrzyskie Mts, Trzebnickie Hills, Western Sudetes Mts; ▪ Saldula fucicola (J. R. Sahlberg, 1870): new to Nowotarska Dale; ▪ Saldula opacula (Zetterstedt, 1938): new to Eastern Beskidy Mts, Małopolska Upland, Mazurian Lake District, Nowotarska Dale, Pieniny Mts, Pomeranian Lake District, Świętokrzyskie Mts, Western Sudetes Mts, Wielkopolsko-Kujawska Lowland; ▪ Saldula orthochila (Fieber, 1859): new to Trzebnickie Hills; ▪ Saldula pallipes (Fabricius, 1794): new to Eastern Sudetes Mts, Małopolska Upland, Mazowieca Lowland, Roztocze Upland; ▪ Saldula palustris (Douglas, 1874): new to Pomeranian Lake District, Wielkopolsko-Kujawska Lowland; ▪ Saldula saltatoria (Linnaeus, 1758): new to Nowotarska Dale, Małopolska Upland, Pieniny Mts: ▪ Teloleuca pellucens (Fabricius, 1779): new to Nowotarska Dale. The occurrence of Saldidae species in particular zoogeographical regions of Poland is also presented in Table 1. Baltic Coast, Lubelska Upland and Wielkopolsko-Kujawska Lowland are the best investigated regions (ryc. 37). Moreover Saldula saltatoria, S. arenicola and S. pallipes seems to be the commonest species of Saldidae in Poland (Table 1).

The sycamore lace bug Corythucha ciliata (Say, 1832) has a North American origin and is one of the most abundant and widespread pests on plane trees (Platanus spp.) across the globe. It has been introduced to Europe, South America, Asia, Australia, and Africa during the last sixty years. In Poland, it has been recorded since 2009 in 28 localities distributed in four of its southern zoogeographical regions. The present paper describes the second record of this species in Upper Silesia.

Lis, Jerzy A., Lis, Barbara (2022): Geotomus granulosus, a peculiar sehirine-like new species of the subfamily Cydninae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae) from Burundi. Zootaxa 5087 (3): 489-493, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5087.3.6

Geotomus granulosus sp. n. (Fig. 1B���E, 2A���D) Etymology: The specific name refers to the unique dorsal body surface in the species; it is the Latin adjective granulosus, meaning ���granulous���, ���having small grains���. Diagnosis: In the absence of the subapical pair of hair-like setae on the clypeus, this new species is similar to three other Afrotropical species, namely G. palustris Linnavuori, 1977, G. radialis Signoret, 1883, and G. remedellii Mancini, 1954. However, it has a peculiar sehirine-like appearance in its dorsal habitus resembling species of Ochetostethus Fieber, 1860 and Ochetostethomorpha Schumacher, 1913 (subfamily Sehirinae). Therefore, the new species can easily be separated from all its African congeners. To date, Fromundus singularis (Horv��th, 1904) was the only Afrotropical species that has a similar dorsal body structure (Fig. 1A) and superficially resembles the sehirine genus Ochetostethus (see: Linnavuori 1993; Lis 1996). Nevertheless, these two species represent two different genera, and what is also essential strongly differ morphologically (what can be seen when you compare Figures 1A and 1B). Moreover, the new species differs from all its known congeners in the unique shape of the hair-like setae constituting the body chaetotaxy, which are peculiarly broadened in the apical part (Fig. 1E). This character is unknown in other species of this genus. Description: Body (Fig. 1B) ovate, relatively depressed, ventrally and dorsally opaque, entirely black or brownish-black, antennae and tarsi brown, somewhat lighter in the shade than remaining body parts. Head, pronotum and scutellum granulose, roughened with distinct large granules; hemelytra with smaller granules and numerous deep punctures. Hair-like setae on the head, the pronotal disc and the abdomen peculiarly broadened in the apical part (Fig. 1E). Head broader than long, its anterior part slightly pointed downward (Fig. 1C) what makes its anterior margins looking broadly ovate in a dorsal view (Fig. 1D); each paraclypeus with two primary hair-like setae (III, IV), and a single secondary submarginal seta; all setae peculiarly broadened in the apical part (Fig. 1E); clypeus free, a little longer than paraclypei, broadest in its mid-length, subapically without a pair of hair-like setae (Fig. 1C); eyes large, protruding, their ommatidia granulose, apical seta (VI) absent (Fig. 1C���D); ocular index 2.80���3.30; interocellar index 7.43���7.72; interocellar distance 4.33���4.42 times a distance of an ocellus from the eye; head ventral surface granulose; rostrum reaching the anterior margin of the mid-coxae (Fig. 2A). Thorax (Fig. 1B). Pronotum about 1.9���2.2 times broader than long; anterior margin deeply angularly insinuated behind the head; transverse discal impression behind calli coarse and well developed; lateral margins slightly crenulated; sublateral margins with five hair-like setae of the same shape as those on paraclypei; prosternal carina well-developed, deep; anterior and posterior convexities of propleuron coarsely punctured with large punctures, propleural depression broad. Scutellum elongated, slightly convex. Mesopleural and metapleural evaporatoria large, triangular, with many distinct, large and coarse punctures; remaining parts of pleura distinctly coarsely punctured; peritremal disc lobe-like (Fig. 2B). Corium coarsely punctured, the costal vein (C) coalescent with the subcostal vein (Sc), the cubital vein (Cu) widely separated from radial + medial (R+M) veins, the first anal vein (1A) present, the second anal vein (2A) absent; R+M and Cu distinctly elevated; costal margin somewhat crenulated, basally with a single hair-like seta of the same shape as those on paraclypei and pronotal margins; hypocostal laminae broad and coarsely punctured; membrane almost reaching the tip of the abdomen, whitish with dark veins. Metathoracic wing (Fig. 2D) with the subcostal vein (Sc) coalescent with the radial vein (R); apical branches of R and M entirely noncoalescent with each other; hamus in the radial cell absent; cross vein r-m absent; the postcubital vein (pCu) present; all three anal veins (1A, 2A, 3A) present; stridulitrum present on the basal half of the first anal vein (1A). Abdomen. Abdominal sterna more or less polished, bearing numerous large punctures; eigth tergites each with a single, broadened apically, hair-like seta. Female genital plates typical of the genus. Spermatheca (Fig. 2C) with a hemispherical, slightly mushroom-shaped receptacle; intermediate spermathecal part long and straight distally; distal and proximal flange well developed, the distal larger than the proximal; distal duct long and coiled; a dilatation-invagination narrow and elongate, somewhat pear-shaped. Legs. Anterior tibiae slightly broadened apically, laterally with numerous short spines and setae. Posterior femora with numerous short setae on margins, posterior margin with a single very small subapical blunt tubercle. Hind tibiae cylindrical in diameter with numerous short spines and setae on lateral margins. Measurements (in mm, females only): body length: 3.58���3.63; body width: 2.07���2.20; head length: 0.59���0.68; head width: 0.910���0.94; pronotum length: 1.00���1.25; pronotum width: 2.08���2.21; scutellum length: 1.67���1.69; scutellum width: 1.26���1.28; length of antennal segments I���V: 0.19���0.20: 0.13���0.14: 0.17���0.21: 0.22���0.26: 0.34���0.36 Type material: Holotype female: ��� Burundi, Ostafr [ika], Umg [ebung] Bujumbura, 26 I 84, Heiss ���; Collection E. Heiss, Innsbruck (IBUO). Paratypes: two females, same data as the holotype (IBUO). Prof. E. Heiss has collected the type specimens in the vicinity of the Bujumbura city, situated on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika., Published as part of Lis, Jerzy A. & Lis, Barbara, 2022, Geotomus granulosus, a peculiar sehirine-like new species of the subfamily Cydninae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae) from Burundi, pp. 489-493 in Zootaxa 5087 (3) on pages 490-492, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5087.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/5826937, {"references":["Linnavuori, R. E. (1993) Cydnidae of west, central and north-east Africa (Heteroptera). Acta Zoologica Fennica, 192, 1 - 148.","Lis, J. A. (1996) Some taxonomic changes in Afrotropical Cydnidae and new records for eight species of the family (Hemiptera, Heteroptera). Revue Francaise d'Entomologie, Nouvelle Serie, 18, 99 - 102."]}

This note presents the second finding of Dichrooscytus gustavi in Lower Silesia. It is the tenth record of this species in Poland.

Ammianus pericarti sp. n. (Figs 1–3, 6) Etymology: This new species is dedicated to the late Jean Péricart, one of the most distinguished specialists on the European Heteroptera, and a world authority in the lace bug’s taxonomy. Diagnosis: The newly described species can be easily separated from its congeners in the Ammianus junodi group, especially by its larger body exceeding 5.20 mm of length (in A. aeneas, A. junodi and A. vanderijsti it varies from 3.50 mm to 4.50 mm), and by the broader subcostal area of hemelytron composed of five rows of areolae, being as wide as the discoidal area (the subcostal area in A. aeneas, A. junodi and A. vanderijsti is composed of 3–4 rows of areolae, and significantly narrower than the discoidal area of hemelytron). Moreover, all those species differ in the shape of the antennal tubercles; they are relatively stout, massive, and directed forwardly in A. pericarti sp. n., while in the three other species, they are delicate, very sharply ended and outwardly bent. Description: Measurements (in mm): body length 5.22; maximum body width 3.31; length of pronotum 2.25; maximum width of pronotum (paranota included) 3.12; length of hemelytron 3.47; length of discoidal area of hemelytron 1.81; length of antennal segments I–IV: 0.30, 0.12, 1.50, 0.55, respectively. General body colour pale brown and ochraceous, mottled with greyish-white and light brown. Body covered with long, pale hairs, pilosity dense on the pronotum, pronotal carinae, and the paranotal and hemelytral margins. Head short, brown with woolly pilosity, armed with five long, sharp spines: the frontal pair of spines directed horizontally, exceeding bases of the pedicel, the median spine obliquely erect, as long as the frontals, and two occipital spines, directed forward, reaching the bases of the antennae. Eyes reddish-brown, with long silvery-white hairs among ommatidia; eyes twice as broad as the frons (the synthlipsis equals 2.0). Antennal tubercles conical, not very sharp, directed forward, covered with bright hairs, slightly longer than the eyes. Antennae slender, ochraceous, the distiflagellomere embrowned apically, all segments covered with bright stiff hairs, which are 2–3 times longer than the pedicel width. Bucculae closed in front, tapering apical, strongly punctate, with four rows of punctures in their highest part. Pronotal disc convex, dark brown at the calli to pale brown on the apical part of the triangular pronotal process; pronotal disc surface strongly punctate, the triangular pronotal process areolate. Pronotal carinae almost parallel with lateral carinae relatively short, not exceeding calli, each carina composed of one row of areolae; the median carina laminate, mainly composed of one row of large areolae and with a triangular biareolate expansion (hump) behind the hood; the anterior part of the median carina touching the pronotal hood, the latter in the shape of the regular cone, composed of five rows of areolae in the highest part and without any spine at the apex. Paranota broad, areolate, their anterior margins slightly sinuate, posterior margins almost straight, lateral margins rounded and armed with six relatively short spines; each paranotum composed of eleven transverse rows of areolae. Hemelytra long, their lateral margins rounded and bearing 6–7 spines. Costal area broad, composed of 5–7 rows of areolae varied in shapes and sizes; the subcostal area relatively flat, composed of five rows of areolae, the row adjacent to the subcostal vein (Sc) formed by small areolae, then areolae became larger; discoidal area composed of five rows areolae, the vein RM flattens in its posterior part; sutural area composed of five rows of areolae. Hypocosta composed of one row of areolae basally and two rows of areolae along its remaining length. Legs slender, ochraceous, the second tarsal segment apically embrowned, claws with distinct basal denticles, tibiae bearing stiff hairs as long as a diameter of tibiae. Abdomen ventrally brown with its median part lighter, ochraceous, and covered with a few very short, silver hairs. Thoracic pleurae brown to ochraceous, strongly punctate, densely covered with long, bright hairs. Type material. Holotype female: Marruecos [Morocco], Agadir (Kasbah), Cardonal 21-1-2005, Oromí & López leg. (deposited in the first author’s collection in IBUO)., Published as part of Lis, Barbara & Lis, Jerzy A., 2021, Ammianus pericarti sp. n. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae), the first strictly Palaearctic representative of the genus with a key to the species of the Ammianus junodi group, pp. 432-438 in Zootaxa 4985 (3) on pages 433-435, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4985.3.10, http://zenodo.org/record/4955818, {"references":["Linnavuori, R. (1977) Hemiptera of the Sudan, with remarks on some species of the adjacent countries 5. Tingidae, Piesmidae, Cydnidae, Thaumastellidae and Plataspidae. Acta Zoologica Fennica, 147, 1 - 81."]}

Key to species of the Ammianus junodi species group 1. Pronotal hood sharply triangular in lateral view, with anterior margin broadly angularly insinuated (Fig. 5); subcostal area composed of three rows of areolae, with two rows conspicuously larger............................. Ammianus aeneas -. Pronotal hood regularly triangular in lateral view, with anterior margin straight (Fig. 6); subcostal area composed of 4–5 rows of areolae, with 3–4 rows relatively larger..................................................................2. 2. Hypocostal lamina composed of one row of areolae on its entire length........................... Ammianus vanderijsti -. Hypocostal lamina composed of two rows of small areolae on its entire length or, at least, in its median part............ 3. 3. Antennal tubercles stout, directed forward (Fig. 3); body length over 5.0 mm.................. Ammianus pericarti sp. n. -. Antennal tubercles more delicate, bent outward (Fig. 4); body length less than 4.5 mm................. Ammianus junodi, Published as part of Lis, Barbara & Lis, Jerzy A., 2021, Ammianus pericarti sp. n. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae), the first strictly Palaearctic representative of the genus with a key to the species of the Ammianus junodi group, pp. 432-438 in Zootaxa 4985 (3) on page 437, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4985.3.10, http://zenodo.org/record/4955818

Ammianus vanderijsti (Schouteden, 1923) (Figs 7–9) Phyllontocheila vanderijsti Schouteden 1923: 101. Ammianus vanderijsti: Drake & Ruhoff, 1965: 90. Material examined. SOUTH AFRICA: Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Montrose, field, P.E. Reavell, 27.11.82 (2exx.) (KZNM). The holotype of Phyllontocheila vanderijsti housed in RMCA has been examined by high-quality digital photos of the dorsal and lateral habitus. Distribution. Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda (Schouteden 1923; Drake & Ruhoff, 1965; Göllner-Scheiding, 2004), and Republic of South Africa (first country record)., Published as part of Lis, Barbara & Lis, Jerzy A., 2021, Ammianus pericarti sp. n. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae), the first strictly Palaearctic representative of the genus with a key to the species of the Ammianus junodi group, pp. 432-438 in Zootaxa 4985 (3) on page 435, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4985.3.10, http://zenodo.org/record/4955818, {"references":["Schouteden, H. (1923) Nouvelles notes sur le Tingides du Congo Belge. Revue zoologique Africaine, 11, 82 - 110.","Drake, C. J. & Ruhoff, F. H. (1965) Lace Bugs of the World, a Catalog (Hemiptera: Tingidae). United States of National Museum Bulletin, 243, i-viii, 3 - 634. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.243.1","Gollner-Scheiding, U. (2004) Die Tingidae (Netzwanzen) der Athiopis (Insecta, Heteroptera: Tingoidea). Katalog der afrikanischen Arten. Nova Supplementa Entomologica, Keltern, 17, 1 - 173."]}

Ammianus junodi (Distant, 1904) (Fig. 4) Phyllontochila junodi Distant 1904: 431. Phyllontochila (Sinuessa) junodi Horváth, 1910: 64 Phyllontocheila junodi: Horváth, 1911: 329, 332; Drake, 1956: 424. Phyllontocheila (Phyllontocheila) ghesquierei Schouteden, 1923: 99, syn. by Duarte-Rodrigues, 1980: 265. Ammianus janodi [sic]: Drake 1957: 32. Ammianus junodi: Drake & Ruhoff, 1965: 87. Material examined. SOUTH AFRICA: Amatikulu Res., 12.02.84, Coastal grass, 1 ex. (KZNM); Natal, Ntambanana Area, 3145E, 2835S, Windy Ridge, 275 m, P.E. Reavell, 12.10.82, 2exx. (KZNM); So. Africa, Univ. Natal, Ukulinga Res. Frm, 10 km SE Pietermaritzburg, 27.12.85, grassland, R. M. Miller & P.A. Stabbins, 1 ex., 22.10.85, grassland, R. M. Miller, clam margin malaise trap, 1ex. (KZNM). The holotype of Phyllontochila junodi from “Transvaal, Zoutpansberg District, Shilouvane (Junod)”, housed in NHM has been examined by the photograph of the dorsal view habitus provided by E. Guilbert. Distribution. The species is widely distributed in the Afrotropical Region (Göllner-Scheiding, 2004; Deckert & Göllner-Scheiding, 2006)., Published as part of Lis, Barbara & Lis, Jerzy A., 2021, Ammianus pericarti sp. n. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae), the first strictly Palaearctic representative of the genus with a key to the species of the Ammianus junodi group, pp. 432-438 in Zootaxa 4985 (3) on page 435, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4985.3.10, http://zenodo.org/record/4955818, {"references":["Distant, W. L. (1904) On the South African Tingididae and other heteropterous Rhynchota. Transactions of the South African philosophical Society, 14 (5), 425 - 236. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 21560382.1903.9526036","Horvath, G. (1910) Hemiptera: Tingitidae und Aradidae. In: Sjostedt., Y., Wissenschaftlische Ergebnisse der Schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905 - 1906, unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjostedt. 2 Band. P. Palmquists aktiebolag, Stockholm, pp. 61 - 72.","Horvath, G. (1911) Miscellanea hemipterologica I - V. Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 9, 327 - 338.","Drake, C. J. (1956) Hemiptera Heteroptera Tingidae and Saldidae. In: Hanstrom, B., Brinck, P. & Rudebeck, G. (Eds) South African Animal Life - Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950 - 1951, vol. 3. Almquist and Wiksell, Stockholm, pp. 421 - 433.","Schouteden, H. (1923) Nouvelles notes sur le Tingides du Congo Belge. Revue zoologique Africaine, 11, 82 - 110.","Drake, C. J. (1957) The genus Belenus Distant and its allies (Hemiptera: Tingidae). Quarterly Journal of the Taiwan Museum, 10, 31 - 35.","Drake, C. J. & Ruhoff, F. H. (1965) Lace Bugs of the World, a Catalog (Hemiptera: Tingidae). United States of National Museum Bulletin, 243, i-viii, 3 - 634. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.243.1","Gollner-Scheiding, U. (2004) Die Tingidae (Netzwanzen) der Athiopis (Insecta, Heteroptera: Tingoidea). Katalog der afrikanischen Arten. Nova Supplementa Entomologica, Keltern, 17, 1 - 173.","Deckert, J. & Gollner-Scheiding, U. (2006) Lace bugs of Namibia (Heteroptera, Tingoidea, Tingidae). In: Rabitsch, W. (Ed.), Hug the bug. For love of bugs. Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Ernst Heiss. Denisia, 19, pp. 823 - 856."]}

Ammianus aeneas Linnavouri, 1977 (Fig. 5) Ammianus aeneas Linnavouri, 1977: 17. Material examined. The holotype of A. aeneas from “ Cameroon: Bas-Chari, N’goum, 40 km au sud du Lac Tohad” housed in the AMNH has been examined by the photograph of the dorsal view habitus (at https://emu-prod.amnh. org). Distribution (Linnavouri, 1977; Göllner-Scheiding, 2006): Cameroon., Published as part of Lis, Barbara & Lis, Jerzy A., 2021, Ammianus pericarti sp. n. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae), the first strictly Palaearctic representative of the genus with a key to the species of the Ammianus junodi group, pp. 432-438 in Zootaxa 4985 (3) on page 435, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4985.3.10, http://zenodo.org/record/4955818

The sycamore lace bug Corythucha ciliata (Say, 1832) has a North American origin and is one of the most abundant and widespread pests on plane trees (Platanus spp.) across the globe. It has been introduced to Europe, South America, Asia, Australia, and Africa during the last sixty years. In Poland, it has been recorded since 2009 in 28 localities distributed in four of its southern zoogeographical regions. The present paper describes the second record of this species in Upper Silesia.

Genus Hypsotingis Drake, 1960 Hypsotingis Drake, 1960: 362. Type species by monotypy: Hypsotingis columna Drake, 1960, New Guinea. Species included: 1. Hypsotingis columna Drake, 1960: 363, New Guinea. 1. Hypsotingis columna Drake, 1960: 363, New Guinea., Published as part of Lis, Barbara & Lis, Jerzy A., 2021, Hypsipyrgias joseliae, a new species of lace bugs (Heteroptera: Tingidae: Tinginae) from New Guinea with a key to species of the genus Hypsipyrgias, and comments on three allied genera Hypsipyrgias Kirkaldy, 1908, Diplocysta Horváth, 1925, and Hypsotingis Drake, 1960, pp. 327-333 in Zootaxa 4958 (1) on page 328, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.19, http://zenodo.org/record/4691993, {"references":["Drake, C. J. (1960) Tingidae of New Guinea. Pacific Insects, 2, 339 - 380."]}

Key to species of the genus Hypsipyrgias 1 Hood large, in dorsal view concealing almost entire head (eyes excluding), as well as the anterior parts of the lateral carinae (Fig. 5).................................................................. Hypsipyrgias telamonides Kirkaldy - Hood smaller, in dorsal view not concealing the lateral carinae and at most concealing posterior part of head............. 2 2 Hemelytra constricted behind middle, discoidal area extending beyond middle of hemelytron, triangular pronotal projection with small tumid elevation at apex, exterior margins of hemelytra and margins of paranota finely serrate (Fig. 6)................................................................................ Hypsipyrgias euphues Drake & Ruhoff - Hemelytral sides almost parallel, discoidal area not extending beyond middle of hemelytron, tumid elevation at apex of triangular pronotal projection absent and exterior margins of hemelytra and margins of paranota smooth, not serrate (Fig. 7)............................................................................... Hypsipyrgias joseliae sp. n., Published as part of Lis, Barbara & Lis, Jerzy A., 2021, Hypsipyrgias joseliae, a new species of lace bugs (Heteroptera: Tingidae: Tinginae) from New Guinea with a key to species of the genus Hypsipyrgias, and comments on three allied genera Hypsipyrgias Kirkaldy, 1908, Diplocysta Horváth, 1925, and Hypsotingis Drake, 1960, pp. 327-333 in Zootaxa 4958 (1) on page 331, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.19, http://zenodo.org/record/4691993

4. Hypsotingis papuana (Drake, 1960) comb. nov. Diplocysta papuana Drake, 1960: 379, New Guinea. 5. Hypsotingis rustica (Drake, 1960) comb. nov. Diplocysta rustica Drake, 1960: 380, New Guinea. 6. Hypsotigis thaleia (Drake & Ruhoff, 1965) comb. nov. Diplocysta thaleia Drake & Ruhoff, 1965: 267, New Guinea. 5. Hypsotingis rustica (Drake, 1960) comb. nov. Diplocysta rustica Drake, 1960: 380, New Guinea. 6. Hypsotigis thaleia (Drake & Ruhoff, 1965) comb. nov. Diplocysta thaleia Drake & Ruhoff, 1965: 267, New Guinea., Published as part of Lis, Barbara & Lis, Jerzy A., 2021, Hypsipyrgias joseliae, a new species of lace bugs (Heteroptera: Tingidae: Tinginae) from New Guinea with a key to species of the genus Hypsipyrgias, and comments on three allied genera Hypsipyrgias Kirkaldy, 1908, Diplocysta Horváth, 1925, and Hypsotingis Drake, 1960, pp. 327-333 in Zootaxa 4958 (1) on page 329, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.19, http://zenodo.org/record/4691993, {"references":["Drake, C. J. (1960) Tingidae of New Guinea. Pacific Insects, 2, 339 - 380.","Drake C. J. & Ruhoff, F. A. (1965) Lacebugs from New Guinea, Borneo, Solomons, and other islands of the South Pacific and Indian Oceans (Hemiptera: Tingidae). Pacific Insects, 7, 243 - 290."]}

2. Hypsotingis globuliformis (Hacker, 1928) comb. nov. Diplocysta globuliformis Hacker, 1928: 179, Thursday Island 3. Hypsotingis kaindi Guilbert, 2006: 46, New Guinea. 3. Hypsotingis kaindi Guilbert, 2006: 46, New Guinea., Published as part of Lis, Barbara & Lis, Jerzy A., 2021, Hypsipyrgias joseliae, a new species of lace bugs (Heteroptera: Tingidae: Tinginae) from New Guinea with a key to species of the genus Hypsipyrgias, and comments on three allied genera Hypsipyrgias Kirkaldy, 1908, Diplocysta Horváth, 1925, and Hypsotingis Drake, 1960, pp. 327-333 in Zootaxa 4958 (1) on page 329, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.19, http://zenodo.org/record/4691993, {"references":["Hacker, H. (1928) New species and records of Australian Tingitoidea (Hemiptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 9, 174 - 187 + XX - XXIII.","Guilbert, E. (2006) New species and new records of Tingidae (Insecta: Heteroptera) of New Guinea. Zootaxa, (1), 37 - 68. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1117.1.3"]}

3. Hypsipyrgias telamonides Kirkaldy, 1908: 779, Australia., Published as part of Lis, Barbara & Lis, Jerzy A., 2021, Hypsipyrgias joseliae, a new species of lace bugs (Heteroptera: Tingidae: Tinginae) from New Guinea with a key to species of the genus Hypsipyrgias, and comments on three allied genera Hypsipyrgias Kirkaldy, 1908, Diplocysta Horváth, 1925, and Hypsotingis Drake, 1960, pp. 327-333 in Zootaxa 4958 (1) on page 328, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.19, http://zenodo.org/record/4691993, {"references":["Kirkaldy, G. W. (1908) Memoir on a few heteropterous hemiptera from Eastern Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 32, 768 - 788. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 19588"]}

1. Diplocysta bilobata Horváth, 1925: 12, Australia., Published as part of Lis, Barbara & Lis, Jerzy A., 2021, Hypsipyrgias joseliae, a new species of lace bugs (Heteroptera: Tingidae: Tinginae) from New Guinea with a key to species of the genus Hypsipyrgias, and comments on three allied genera Hypsipyrgias Kirkaldy, 1908, Diplocysta Horváth, 1925, and Hypsotingis Drake, 1960, pp. 327-333 in Zootaxa 4958 (1) on page 328, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.19, http://zenodo.org/record/4691993, {"references":["Horvath, G. (1925) Results of Dr. E. Mjoberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910 - 1913. 45. Tingitidae. Arkiv for zoologi, 17 A (24), 1 - 17."]}

1. Hypsotingis columna Drake, 1960: 363, New Guinea., Published as part of Lis, Barbara & Lis, Jerzy A., 2021, Hypsipyrgias joseliae, a new species of lace bugs (Heteroptera: Tingidae: Tinginae) from New Guinea with a key to species of the genus Hypsipyrgias, and comments on three allied genera Hypsipyrgias Kirkaldy, 1908, Diplocysta Horváth, 1925, and Hypsotingis Drake, 1960, pp. 327-333 in Zootaxa 4958 (1) on page 328, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.19, http://zenodo.org/record/4691993, {"references":["Drake, C. J. (1960) Tingidae of New Guinea. Pacific Insects, 2, 339 - 380."]}

Hypsipyrgias joseliae sp. n. (Figs 1–4, 7) Etymology: The new species name is derived from the first name of Jocelia Grazia, a distinguished specialist on South American Heteroptera. Diagnosis: In general habitus (Fig. 1), the new species resembles the other two species of the genus, but can easily be separated from H. telamonides by having a pronotal hood distinctly smaller (Fig. 2), not covering the anterior part of the lateral carinae in dorsal view, at most concealing the posterior part of the head. Additionally, the frontal cephalic spines of the new species are very short (Fig. 2) whereas in both, H. telamonides and H. euphues they are long, reaching the apex of the first antennal segment (Figs 5–6). In H. euphues the shape and size of the pronotal hood are very similar to the new species but it differs in the shape of hemelytra and its discoidal area, as well as in characters related to pronotum (for details, see the key for species identification). Description: Measurements (in mm): body length 3.48–3.80, maximum body width 1.10–1.25, length of pronotum 1.36–1.55, maximum width of pronotum 0.92–1.20, length of hemelytron 2.60–3.00, length of discoidal area 1.26–1.37, length of antennal segments 0.16–0.18: 0.11: 1.03–1.17: 0.38–0.44. Body (Fig. 1) oblong with lateral margins almost parallel, only slightly sinuated at the level of distal apices of discoidal areas. General color brownish; head, pronotal disc, abdomen and thoracic sterna black; cephalic spines, bucculae, sternal laminae, antennae and legs yellowish brown, fourth antennal segment and apices of tarsi dark brown to black. Body covered with short, whitish, curly hair, especially visible on the pronotal disc and the ventral side of the thorax. Head short (Fig. 3), armed with five cephalic spines, occipital spines relatively long, appressed, subparallel, dorsomedial spine very short, porrect, frontal spines short, porrect, placed very closely each other. Bucculae rounded apically, closed in front (Fig. 4), each buccula composed of three rows of tiny areolae. Antennae slender, third antennal segment about 2.5–3 times as long as the fourth, antenniferous tubercles short, obtuse. Labium surpassing posterior margin of mesosternum, sternal lamine low, uniseriate, open behind (Fig. 4). Pronotal disc convex, coarsely punctate, tricarinate, each carina composed of one row of areolae. Lateral carinae distinctly sinuated and terminating at the level of the highest point of pronotal disc (Fig. 1). Median carina fusioning with the pronotal cyst (hood). Pronotal cyst as high as its width, pyriform, not covering the head, composed of relatively large, polygonal areolae (Fig. 2). Triangular pronotal projection areolate, without any tumid area at apex. Paranota composed of four rows of areolae at their widest part, three inner rows of polygonal areolae raised, outer row reflexed, resting on the pronotal surface, composed of regular, trapezoidal areolae. Collar composed of two rows of areolae. Hemelytra (Fig. 1) long, their lateral margins slightly sinuated, costal area composed of one row of relatively large, rectangular areolae, subcostal area narrow, almost vertical, composed of two rows of small, rounded areolae, discoidal area more than twice shorter than hemelytron, composed of seven to eight rows of areolae, sutural area composed of five to six rows of large areolae, hypocosta uniseriate. Legs slender. Type material: Holotype male: New Guinea centr., Baliem Tal — 1700m, March 1992, leg. Jiři Kolibáč (deposited in ZSM). Paratypes: male and female: Papua New Guinea, Wau, Mt. Kaindi, 1850–2150m, 8. X. 1992, leg. A. Riedel (female deposited in ZMS, male deposited in the author’s collection)., Published as part of Lis, Barbara & Lis, Jerzy A., 2021, Hypsipyrgias joseliae, a new species of lace bugs (Heteroptera: Tingidae: Tinginae) from New Guinea with a key to species of the genus Hypsipyrgias, and comments on three allied genera Hypsipyrgias Kirkaldy, 1908, Diplocysta Horváth, 1925, and Hypsotingis Drake, 1960, pp. 327-333 in Zootaxa 4958 (1) on pages 329-330, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.19, http://zenodo.org/record/4691993

3. Hypsotingis kaindi Guilbert, 2006: 46, New Guinea., Published as part of Lis, Barbara & Lis, Jerzy A., 2021, Hypsipyrgias joseliae, a new species of lace bugs (Heteroptera: Tingidae: Tinginae) from New Guinea with a key to species of the genus Hypsipyrgias, and comments on three allied genera Hypsipyrgias Kirkaldy, 1908, Diplocysta Horváth, 1925, and Hypsotingis Drake, 1960, pp. 327-333 in Zootaxa 4958 (1) on page 329, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.19, http://zenodo.org/record/4691993, {"references":["Guilbert, E. (2006) New species and new records of Tingidae (Insecta: Heteroptera) of New Guinea. Zootaxa, (1), 37 - 68. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1117.1.3"]}

5. Hypsotingis rustica (Drake, 1960) comb. nov. Diplocysta rustica Drake, 1960: 380, New Guinea.

6. Hypsotigis thaleia (Drake & Ruhoff, 1965) comb. nov. Diplocysta thaleia Drake & Ruhoff, 1965: 267, New Guinea., Published as part of Lis, Barbara & Lis, Jerzy A., 2021, Hypsipyrgias joseliae, a new species of lace bugs (Heteroptera: Tingidae: Tinginae) from New Guinea with a key to species of the genus Hypsipyrgias, and comments on three allied genera Hypsipyrgias Kirkaldy, 1908, Diplocysta Horváth, 1925, and Hypsotingis Drake, 1960, pp. 327-333 in Zootaxa 4958 (1) on page 329, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.19, http://zenodo.org/record/4691993, {"references":["Drake C. J. & Ruhoff, F. A. (1965) Lacebugs from New Guinea, Borneo, Solomons, and other islands of the South Pacific and Indian Oceans (Hemiptera: Tingidae). Pacific Insects, 7, 243 - 290."]}