Sejanus trivinosus Carvalho and Gross

Menard, Katrina L. & Schuh, Randall T., 2011, Revision Of Leucophoropterini: Diagnoses, Key To Genera, Redescription Of The Australian Fauna, And Descriptions Of New Indo-Pacific Genera And Species (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (361), pp. 1-159 : 155

Sejanus trivinosus Carvalho and Gross

Sejanus trivinosus Carvalho and Gross, 1982: 10 , fig. 93 (n. sp., descr., DV).

DISCUSSION: This species was described based on one female specimen from Victoria, Australia. We were unable to examine the type specimen because its location is currently unknown, but based on the original description and illustrations of the type we could not with confidence confirm it is a leucophoropterine. In the original description the body and hemelytra are described as being yellowish white to pale brownish, with yellowish-orange markings on the head and dark reddish-orange markings on the mesoscutum, posterior margins of the hemelytra, clavus, and anterior margins of the cuneus ( Carvalho and Gross, 1982: fig. 93). This color pattern is more consistent with the Australian Polyozus group ( Weirauch, 2007: figs. 1–2) than with any Sejanus or Ausejanus spp. , which are almost always mostly dark red, dark brown, or pale brown. Until male specimens are associated with the female holotype, and the genitalia are examined, generic and tribal placement of S. trivinosus cannot be confidently addressed.

HOSTS: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: Victoria.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Victoria: Dartmouth Survey, Six Mile Creek , locality GA, 12.iv.1973, 1 ♀ ( MVMA) [not examined].

TAXA REMOVED FROM LEUCOPHOROPTERINI