Wallabicoris pimelei, Schuh & P. Pedraza, 2010

Schuh, R. T. & P. Pedraza, 2010, Wallabicoris, New Genus (Hemiptera: Miridae: Phylinae: Phylini) From Australia, With The Description Of 37 New Species And An Analysis Of Host Associations, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (338), pp. 1-118 : 53-54

Wallabicoris pimelei , new species Figure 23; map 4; plate 3

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by the relatively small size, mean total length 3.98, the largely pale coloration with orange suffusion on the head, anterior lobe of pronotum, and scutellum, and the heavy, erect, black setae on the head and pronotum (pl. 3); secondary endosomal strap complete, smooth curving over entire length; left paramere short, blunt, deep bodied (fig. 23). Breeds on Pimelea sericea (Thymelaeaceae) . Similar in size and coloration to W. pomaderri , but that species lacking the erect black setae on the head and pronotum and having an incomplete secondary endosomal strap.

DESCRIPTION: Male: Body weakly elongate, weakly ovoid, total length 3.81–4.11,

(AMNH_PBI 00194167).

ratio l/w 5 3.03. COLORATION (pl. 3): Pronotum pale with a few brown spots; hemelytron mostly pale or yellow, corium and clavus with dirty areas; markings on cuneus absent; membrane with elongate, contrasting, fumose marking at extreme base, remainder partially fumose, especially within cells, veins white; venter light yellow; antennal segment 1 yellow to dirty yellow, with one or two black medial setae; antennal segment 2 yellow to dirty yellow; labium pale with segment 4 heavily infuscate; hind femora with many brown or black spots; hind tibial spines dark with very small dark bases. SURFACE AND VESTITURE: Dorsum with suberect black setae, especially on pronotum, intermixed with pale setae on hemleytron, and with some sericeous or woolly setae. STRUCTURE: Head: Somewhat projecting, ratio wh/lh 5 3.75; antennal fossa with ventral margin of fossa at ventral margin of eye; interocular space relatively small, ratio iod/wh 5 0.48; eyes occupying entire height of head in lateral view (hg0–1/ he20); labium very long, reaching well onto pygophore. GENITALIA (fig. 23): Endosoma: Base very long, with an open Ushaped bend; distal half of shaft smoothly curving; primary endosomal strap elongate apically, ratio lae/lsg 2.15; apex of primary endosomal strap distinctly curving; secondary endosomal strap very slender, of uniform width from endosomal bend to gonopore, reaching to level of secondary gonopore, smoothly curving over entire length; secondary gonopore seen laterally in lateral view of endosoma. Phallotheca: Smoothly curving on dorsal margin; dorsal surface without a conspicuous keel. Left Paramere: Body relatively short, just exceeding margin of pygophore; in dorsal perspective open over nearly entire length; body not distinctly tapering toward apex; anterior process arising at posterior margin of shaft; anterior process angled posterodorsally; posterior process appearing tubular, fingerlike; posterior process with strongly projecting shoulder at base; base of posterior process at about level of paramere body or very weakly elevated. Right Paramere: Body moderately elongate, ratio lrp/wrp 3.61; body tapered from base to apex; posterior margin without distinct protuberance subapically; body more or less confluent with base; apex with short fingerlike process.

ETYMOLOGY: Named for the host genus, Pimelea Banks and Sol. ex Gaertn. (Thymelaeaceae) .

HOSTS: Recorded only from Pimelea sericea R. Br. (Thymelaeaceae) (pl. 12A, B).

DISTRIBUTION (map 4): Known only from the type locality in southeastern Tasmania.

DISCUSSION: The host of W. pimelei is restricted to Tasmania.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Tasmania: Mt. Wellington, the Pinnacle, 42.89555 ° S 147.2374 ° E, 1267 m, 15 Jan 2004, M.D. Schwartz and P.P. Tinerella, Pimelea sericea R. Br. (Thymelaeaceae) , det. NSW staff NSW658212, 13 (AMNH_PBI 00194161) ( AM).

PARATYPES: AUSTRALIA: Tasmania: Mt. Wellington, the Pinnacle, 42.89555 ° S 147.2374 ° E, 1267 m, 15 Jan 2004, M.D. Schwartz and P.P. Tinerella, Pimelea sericea R. Br. (Thymelaeaceae) , det. NSW staff NSW658212, 43 (00194158, 00194160, 00194162, 00194164), 2♀ (00194168, 00194169) ( AM), 153 (00194148–00194153– 00194157, 00194163, 00194165–00194167), 3♀ (00194170–00194172) ( AMNH).