Physatocheila empheres Drake & Ruhoff 1965

Guilbert, Eric, 2006, New species and new records of Tingidae (Insecta: Heteroptera) of New Guinea, Zootaxa 1117, pp. 37-68 : 59

Physatocheila empheres Drake & Ruhoff 1965

Material examined: 2M, New Guinea, NE, Wau, 1200m, 9. III.1965, J. Sedlacek, BPBM; 5M, New Guinea, NE, Wau, 1200m, 13–15.IX.1965, J. Sedlacek, BPBM; 2F, New Guinea, NE, Wau, 1200m, 2.XII.1964, J. & M. Sedlacek, Light trap, BPBM; 1M+3F, New Guinea, NE, Morobe Prov., Wau, Edie Creek Road, 1280m, 19.VI.1984, permethrin fog of Lithocarpus sp. canopy, sample #10, tree #3310, W.C. Gagné, BPBM; 1M, New Guinea, NE, Morobe Prov., Wau, Edie Creek Road, 1280m, 20.VI.1984, permethrin fog of Lithocarpus sp. canopy, sample #11, tree #3311, W.C. Gagné & UREP session III, BPBM. Comments: This species seems restricted to the type locality: Wau. Drake and Ruhoff (1965) did not mention in the original description that the median carina was higher than the lateral carinae and had two rows of areolae on the top of the pronotum. Antennal segments III and IV are missing on the type. Here are given the antennal segments measures, I, 0.15 (std. 0.016); II, 0.12 (std. 0.015); III, 1.24 (std. 0.14); IV, 0.40 (std. 0.036).