Proteophylus orientalis, Randall T. Schuh & Michael D. Schwartz, 2016

Randall T. Schuh & Michael D. Schwartz, 2016, Nineteen new genera and 82 new species of Cremnorrhinina from Australia, including analyses of host relationships and distributions (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae: Phylininae: Cremnorrhinini), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 401, pp. 1-279 : 170-171

Proteophylus orientalis , new species

Figure 74, map 19, table 1, plates 24, 25

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by dirty-yellow coloration, including antennal segments 1 and 2; antennal segment 2 very weakly swollen; calli not distinct from remainder of pronotum (pl. 24); endosoma with two elongate straps merging to form beaklike apical spine (fig.

74, pl. 25). Differing from most Proteophylus spp. by dirty-yellow coloration and from others by the weakly swollen antennal segment 2; elongate, slender apical spine of endosoma and form of right paramere with prominent posterior apical angle most similar to P. occidentalis .

DESCRIPTION: MALE: Mean total length 2.94, mean pronotum width 1.05. COLORATION (pl. 24): Dirty yellow (in preserved specimens), including all appendages, with weakly fumose membrane and pale membrane veins. SURFACE AND VESTITURE (pl. 24): Dorsum smooth, weakly shining; vestiture of recumbent, pale, simple setae. STRUC- TURE: Body form robust, weakly flattened. Head (pl. 24): Weakly globular, moderately protuberant; frons weakly swollen, clypeus partially visible in dorsal view; eyes occupying four-fifths height of head in lateral view; antenna inserted just above ventral margin of eye, eye very weakly emarginate; labium just surpassing apex of mesocoxa. Antenna: Segment 1 not enlarged, segment 2 robust and of uniform diameter over length, short (0.60), 0.86 times width of head. Thorax (pl. 24): Pronotum with calli weakly elevated, posterior lobe very weakly elevated, lateral margins straight, posterior margin straight; mesoscutum moderately exposed. Hemelytron: Corial margin weakly convex; cuneus short and broad. GENITALIA (fig. 74, pl. 25): Pygophore: As in generic description. Endosoma: Region distad of middle slightly bent to left; ventral strap narrowed to thin weakly sclerotized and faintly serrate band merging with wider, attenuate and pointed apical spine of dorsal strap; lateral surface proximal of secondary gonopore minutely serrate. Phallotheca: Apical portion with elongate sclerite on posterior surface; dorsal crest moderately produced, apex rather wide. Parameres: As in generic description; right paramere with prominence on posteroapical angle.

FEMALE (pl. 24): Coloration and structure as in male; mean total length 3.33, mean pronotum width 1.24.

ETYMOLOGY: From the Latin, orientalis , “eastern,” in reference to its occurrence in southeastern Australia.

HOST: Recorded from Grevillea pterosperma (pl. 35F) ( Proteaceae ).

DISTRIBUTION (map 19): Known only from the type locality, Scorpion Springs Conservation Park, southeastern South Australia.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: South Australia: Scorpion Springs Cons. Park, 35.4493°S 140.874°E, 120 m, 10 Nov 1998, Schuh, Cassis, Silveira, Grevillea pterosperma F. Muell. (Proteaceae) , det. Royal Bot Gard. NSW NSW427666, 1d (AMNH_PBI 00388753) (SAMA).

PARATYPES: AUSTRALIA: South Australia: Scorpion Springs Cons. Park, 35.4493°S 140.874°E, 120 m, 10 Nov 1998, Schuh, Cassis, Silveira, Grevillea pterosperma F. Muell. (Proteaceae) , det. Royal Bot Gard. NSW NSW427666, 5d (00388752, 0 0 388754, 0 0 388755, 0 0 0 87417, 00390180), 3♂ (00388762, 0 0 0 87418, 00390187) (AM), 3d (00087578, 0 0 392820, 00390181), 1♂ (00390188) (AMNH), 1d (00388751), 2♂ (00390185, 00390186) (SAMA).

OTHER SPECIMENS EXAMINED: AUSTRALIA: South Australia: Scorpion Springs Cons. Park, 35.4493°S 140.874°E, 120 m, 10 Nov 1998, Schuh, Cassis, Silveira, Grevillea pterosperma F. Muell. (Proteaceae) , det. Royal Bot Gard. NSW NSW427666, 6 nymphs (00388756– 00388761), 3 nymphs (00390182–00390184) (AM).