Gulacapsus moresbyana 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 : 101

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/361.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5478511
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scientific name	Gulacapsus moresbyana Schuh
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Gulacapsus moresbyana Schuh View in CoL Figure 21 View Figure 21

Gulacapsus moresbyana Schuh, 1984: 227 View in CoL , figs. 744–745, 754–755 (n. sp., diag., descr., DV, figs. head-pronotum).

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by characters of the generic diagnosis, large size, and extremely elongate face compared to other species of Gulacapsus , elongate and flattened labrum equivalent to height of head below eyes, mostly dark brown coloration, elevated posterior lobe of pronotum, and long metafemur.

DESCRIPTION: See Schuh (1984).

HOSTS: Unknown; collected in light traps.

DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea.

DISCUSSION: We did not reexamine the type specimen of G. moresbyana , the only known specimen. However, this is the largest Gulacapsus species and has the most developed and pronounced keellike gula, features that clearly differentiate it from the other species.

HOLOTYPE: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Central Prov.; Daradee Plantation , 80 km N to Port Moresby, 500 m, September 7, 1959. T.C. Maa. 18 ( BPBM) [not examined].