Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Miridae

Xenocylapidius bioculatus (Girault) Figures 4, 11, 31

Rhinomiridius bioculatus Girault 1934: l (sp. n.); Carvalho 1957: 24 (catalog), 1974: 43 (list of types of species described by Girault); Cassis and Gross 1995: 150 (list); Schuh 1995: 36 (catalog); Gorczyca and Chérot 1998: 24 (note).

Xenocylapidius australis Gorczyca, 1999: 16, 17, Fig. 2 (sp. n.), (synonymized by Gorczyca 2006) (BPBM).

Diagnosis.

Recognized by the following set of characters: dorsum with a mottled, blackish yellow coloration (Fig. 4); apical half of antennal segment II with dense, fine, semirecumbent setae and with sparse, protruding, bristlelike setae; femora entirely blackish (Fig. 4).

Most similar to Xenocylapidius acutipennis, Xenocylapidius gemellus, X gressitti, and Xenocylapidius tamasi in sharing mottled dorsal coloration (Figs 1, 4, 5-6, 8). Xenocylapidius bioculatus can, however, be distinguished by the presence of bristlelike setae on the antennal segment II and the uniformly black coloration of femora (Fig. 4)

Biology .

Unknown.

Distribution.

Australia (New South Wales, South Australia) (Fig. 31).

Examined material.

Holotype of Xenocylapidius australis ♀: Australia N. S. W., Manly nr Sydney, North Head 16-21.2., D. Shcherbakov 1997 (US); 1?: Mt. Gibraltar National Park, N.S.W., 24 Feb 1965, D.K. McAlpine; Eeastern scarp, c. 3000 ft.; Carvalho to Drake Coll 1993 (USNM).