Arafuramiris heath, Menard & Schuh, 2011

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 : 37

Arafuramiris heath , new species Plate 1, Figure 4

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by small size, width of vertex nearly equal in width to one eye, dark coxae, transparent anterolateral margins of cuneus, relatively long segment 2, and eyes not entire height of head with vertex visible in lateral view. Female recognized by lateral margins of abdomen visible below lateral margins of hemelytron.

DESCRIPTION: Male: Macropterous, small sized, and medially constricted. Total length 2.97, width pronotum 1.02, maximum width across hemelytra 0.94. COLORATION: Eyes silver. Membrane dark brown with weak brown pigmentation along wing veins (pl. 1). Abdomen dark brown, abdominal segments 2 and 3 paler brown to white. STRUCTURE: Clypeus anterior to anterior margin of frons in lateral view, visible in dorsal view, frons convex. Vertex flat, posterior margin raised for medial half and lateral margins declining, forming shelflike appearance, width equivalent to approximately half total width of one eye. Eyes weakly removed from anterior margin of vertex, vertex visible in lateral view by anterior surface of eyes, eyes greater than K total height of head in lateral view. Length of segment 2 nearly equal to 1.33 times total head width. Apex of labial segment 1 extending past posterior margin of head, apex of segment 4 nearly reaching mesocoxae. Anterior lobe of pronotum relatively broad and well differentiated from posterior lobe. Anterolateral margins of hemelytra narrower than posterior lateral margins. Length of cuneus greater than M total length of hemelytral membrane, cuneal fracture angled anteromesially. GENITALIA: Pygophore small, less than one-fifth total length of abdomen, without elaborations, ventral surface nearly parallel to anterior surface. Endosoma, phallotheca, and parameres not examined.

Female: Macropterous, small, medially constricted. Total length 2.67, width pronotum 0.90, maximum width across hemelytra 0.89. COLORATION, SURFACE TEXTURE, AND VESTITURE as in generic description. STRUCTURE: Clypeus extending past anterior margin of frons, weakly visible in dorsal view, frons more convex than in male. Vertex nearly two times width of one eye and convex, eyes not total height of head in lateral view. Ventral surface of abdomen parallel to dorsal surface for greater than half of posterior length, abdominal sternite 1 distinctly narrowed compared to rest of abdominal segments, lateral margins of abdomen wider than lateral margins of hemelytron. Ovipositor spine absent. GENITALIA: Not examined.

ETYMOLOGY: Named for the host plant vegetation, which was listed as heath; noun in apposition.

HOSTS: Heath, referring to a shrubby, sclerophyll vegetation type in Australia.

DISTRIBUTION: Queensland.

DISCUSSION: This species initially was considered a population of A. biakanus , but the much wider head, and the width of the vertex nearly equivalent to the width of one eye versus nearly two times as wide as one eye in A. biakanus indicates they are separate species. This species is only known from the male holotype and female paratype, which were not dissected.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Queensland: 24 km NNW Heathlands , 11.55 ° S 142.46666 ° E, 19 Jun 1993, I.D.Naumann & P. Zborowski, heath, 18 (00088832) ( QM).

PARATYPES: AUSTRALIA: Queensland: 24 km NNW Heathlands, 11.55 ° S 142.46666 ° E, 19 Jun 1993, I.D.Naumann & P. Zborowski, heath, 1♀ (00088840) ( QM).

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Figure 4. Distribution map of Arafuramiris spp.