Avititerra, Symonds & Cassis, 2018

Symonds, Celia L. & Cassis, Gerasimos, 2018, Systematics And Analysis Of The Radiation Of Orthotylini Plant Bugs Associated With Callitroid Conifers In Australia: Description Of Five New Genera And 32 New Species (Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2018 (422), pp. 1-229 : 58

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090-422.1.1

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0382F060-3405-FF81-FCA4-2778FB60A8C1

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scientific name

Avititerra
status

gen. nov.

Avititerra , new genus

TYPE SPECIES: Avititerra lepidothrix , n. sp., by original designation.

DIAGNOSIS: Defined by the following characters: moderately small, body narrow, elongate (fig. 12); eyes medium to large; labium short, extending only to mesocoxae; dorsum with moderately dense distribution of pale to mediumbrown simple setae intermixed with scalelike setae; dorsum bright yellow-green or bright pale green, cuneus entirely concolorous with rest of hemelytra or with yellow inner margin and tip; forewing membrane uniformly light or dark gray-brown, without subcuneal clear spot (fig. 12A), veins orange or yellow, or partly concolorous with membrane, with color confined to vein (fig. 12); pygophore subquadrate, genital opening moderately large, round, dorsal margin weakly to moderately concave, sometimes with very small spinelike left lateral tergal process (fig. 17A–C); parameres both extend externally well beyond genital opening, meeting medially and enclosing phallotheca and aedeagus (fig. 17A–C); left paramere L-shaped, with large, bulbous, and serrate sensory lobe, apophysis elongate, broad, apex truncate and round with small, recurved hook (figs. 15B, C, 18B); right paramere C-shaped, apex moderately elongate, round, with expanded submedial dorsal lobe, apex and dorsal lobe with small spinelike serrations (figs. 15D, 18C); phallotheca simple, lightly sclerotized, lateral/dorsal margins reduced (figs. 15E, 18E); aedeagus with three elongate sclerotized spicules; PES left lateral to secondary gonopore and base tubular and

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Miridae

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