Wallabicoris pultenaei, 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 : 65-68

Wallabicoris pultenaei , new species Figures 31–33; map 2; plate 4

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by the relatively small size, generally greenish coloration of the dorsum with a strongly contrasting red clavus and endocorium (pl. 4), small eyes, broad vertex, very weakly elevated pronotum, and weakly but distinctly convex costal margin of the hemelytron. Labium reaching from middle of abdomen to midpoint of pygophore; left paramere elongate, broad, and projecting well beyond margin of pygophore; secondary strap of endosoma bifurcate submedially (fig. 32), similar to condition in W. cuneotinctus , W. spyridiellus , W. thomasii , and W. trymalii .

DESCRIPTION: Male: Body elongate ovoid, total length 3.26–3.55, ratio l/w 5 3.03. COLORATION (pl. 4): Pronotum mostly faded green with a medial longitudinal pale stripe; clavus and posterior half of endocorium red, remainder of corium pale to weakly green; cuneus solid orange on posterior half; membrane with elongate, contrasting, fumose marking at extreme base, remainder heavily fumose over most of area, veins red; venter light green; 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 VESTI- TURE: Dorsum with reclining black setae, especially on pronotum, intermixed with pale setae on hemleytron, and with some sericeous or woolly setae. STRUCTURE: Head: Elongate, projecting anteriorly, ratio wh/lh 5 2.77 (fig. 31A); antennal fossa with ventral margin of fossa at ventral margin of eye; interocular space small, ratio iod/wh 5 0.52; eyes leaving gena broadly exposed in lateral view (hg5–14/he20); labium reaching to margin of pygophore. GENITALIA (figs. 31E, F, 32): Endosoma: Base moderately long, with an open U-shaped bend; distal half of shaft smoothly curving; primary endosomal strap short apically, ratio lae/lsg 1.50; 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, bifurcating at about midpoint; secondary gonopore seen frontally 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 closed over about one-half length; body not distinctly tapering toward apex; anterior process arising slightly forward of 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 3.91; body tapered from base to apex; posterior margin without distinct protuberance subapically; body elevated at juncture with base; apex tapered.

Female: GENITALIA: Figure 33.

ETYMOLOGY: Named for its host genus, Pultenaea Sm. (Fabaceae) .

HOSTS: Recorded only from Pultenaea tenuifolia R. Bruce ex Sims (Fabaceae) (pl. 8A).

DISTRIBUTION (map 2): Known from two collecting events in Little Desert National Park, western Victoria.

DISCUSSION: Pultenaea tenuifolia is distributed broadly across the south coast of

Australia, including the north coast of Tasmania, but with most records from southwestern Victoria, adjacent South Australia, and the Eyre Peninsula. We surmise that the limited known distribution for W.

(AMNH_PBI 00089343).

pultenaei is indicative of the need for additional field effort.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Victoria: Little Desert National Park, 14 km E on McDonald Hiway, 36.56668 ° S 141.4 ° E, 150 m, 04 Nov 1995, Schuh and Cassis, Pultenaea tenuifolia R. Br. ex Sims (Fabaceae) , det. P.H. Weston 1996 NSW 395987, 13 (AMNH_PBI 00089341) ( MVMA).

PARATYPES: AUSTRALIA: South Australia: Scorpion Springs Cons. Park, 35.62648 ° S 140.8698 ° E, 100 m, 10 Nov 1998, Schuh, Cassis, Silveira, Spyridium sp. (Rhamnaceae) , det. Royal Bot Gard. NSW NSW427521, 13 (00130396) ( AMNH). Victoria: 13 km S of Kaniva, 36.50001 ° S 141.2167 ° E, 150 m, 03 Nov 1995, Schuh and Cassis, Pultenaea tenuifolia R. Br. ex Sims (Fabaceae) , det. P.H. Weston 1996 NSW 395981, 133 (00132724– 00132736), 14♀ (00132742–00132755) ( AMNH). Little Desert National Park, 14 km E on McDonald Hiway, 36.56668 ° S 141.4 ° E, 150 m, 04 Nov 1995, Schuh and Cassis, Pultenaea tenuifolia R. Br. ex Sims (Fabaceae) , det. P.H. Weston 1996 NSW 395987, 953 (00087281, 00087486, 00089326–00089332, 00089338– 00089340, 00089342–00089345, 00089357– 00089360, 00089362, 00089364–00089366, 00089368–00089369, 00089371–00089375, 00089395–00089397, 00089402–00089423,

(AMNH_PBI 00132258).

00089425, 00089460–00089481, 00089502– 00089516, 00181908), 63♀ (00089347– 00089353, 00089356, 00089376–00089386, 00089388–00089393, 00089428–00089447, 00089484–00089501) ( AM), 583 (00089361, 00089363, 00089367, 00089370, 00131851– 00131865, 00132229–00132241, 00132677– 00132702), 46♀ (00089325, 00089354, 00089387, 00089483, 00131880–00131894, 00132242– 00132257–00132258,00132704–00132713) ( AMNH), 43 (00089314–00089317), 5♀ (00089320– 00089324) ( ANIC), 33 (00131872–00131874) ( CNC), 73 (00089311–00089313, 00089398– 00089401), 6♀ (00087282, 00089448–00089452) ( MVMA), 83 (00089298–00089304, 00089337), 8♀ (00089307–00089310, 00089333–00089336) ( UNSW), 33 (00131866–00131868), 3♀ (00131877–00131879) ( USNM), 33 (00131869– 00131871), 2♀ (00131875, 00131876) ( ZISP). Little Desert National Park, McDonald Highway, 36.58255 ° S 141.6418 ° E, 190 m, 05 Nov 2002, Cassis, Schuh, Schwartz, Silveira, Pultenaea tenuifolia R. Br. ex Sims (Fabaceae) , det. NSW staff NSW658113, 2♀ (00181887, 00181888) ( CNC).

OTHER SPECIMENS EXAMINED: AUSTRA- LIA: Victoria: 13 km S of Kaniva, 36.50001 ° S 141.2167 ° E, 150 m, 03 Nov 1995, Schuh and Cassis, Pultenaea tenuifolia R. Br. ex Sims (Fabaceae) , det. P.H. Weston 1996 NSW 395981, 5 nymphs (00132737–00132741) ( AMNH). Little Desert National Park, 14 km E on McDonald Hiway, 36.56668 ° S 141.4 ° E, 150 m, 04 Nov 1995, Schuh and Cassis, Pultenaea tenuifolia R. Br. ex Sims (Fabaceae) , det. P.H. Weston 1996 NSW 395987, 11 nymphs (00089305, 00089453– 00089459, 00089517–00089519) ( AM), Pultenaea tenuifolia R. Br. ex Sims (Fabaceae) , det. P.H. Weston 1996 NSW 395987, 1 nymph (00132703) ( AMNH).