Arafuramiris biakanus Schuh, 1984

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 : 35

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scientific name	Arafuramiris biakanus Schuh
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Arafuramiris biakanus Schuh View in CoL Figure 4 View Figure 4

Arafuramiris biakanus Schuh, 1984: 202 View in CoL , figs. 665, 666, 676–678 (n. sp., diag., descr., DV, figs. head-pronotum, MG).

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by characters in generic diagnosis, relatively small eyes that take up only L total height of head in lateral view, width of vertex at least two times width of one eye, lateral margins of abdomen in female wider than lateral margins of abdomen, and indentation and clear differentiation between anterior and posterior lobes of pronotum.

DESCRIPTION: See Schuh (1984).

HOSTS: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea.

DISCUSSION: We were able to examine recently collected specimens of this species from Papua New Guinea, confirming that the shape of the head and eyes are distinctive compared to all other species of Arafuramiris . Most species of Arafuramiris have the eyes dominating the dorsal and lateral surfaces of the head, whereas in A. biakanus the vertex dominates the head.

HOLOTYPE: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Morobe Prov.: Bulolo , 282 m., August 13, 1956, E.J. Ford, Jr. 18 ( BPBM) [not examined].

SPECIMENS EXAMINED: INDONESIA: Biak Island: Biak Island: Strand, 0.99783 ° S 135.98089 ° E, 61 m, 24 Jun 1959, T.C. Maa, paratype, 18 (00196055) ( AMNH), paratype, 18 (00321083), 1♀ (00321082) ( BPBM). PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Madang Province: Baiteta , 5.017 ° S 145.75 ° E, 24 May 1995, O. Missa, 1♀ (00302157) ( ISNB) GoogleMaps ; 09 Apr 1996, O. Missa, Light Trap, 1♀ (00302120) ( ISNB) ; 07 Jun 1996, O. Missa, 38 (00196011, 00196013, 00302156), 3♀ (00196018, 00302158, 00302160) ( ISNB) .