Papuamimus Schuh

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 : 119-120

Papuamimus Schuh Figure 30

Papuamimus Schuh, 1984: 217 (n. gen., descr., disc.).

TYPE SPECIES: Papuamimus irianicus Schuh, 1984 , by original designation.

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by large eyes with anterior margin strongly removed from vertex, flattened pronotal collar, highly polished head, pronotum, and scutellum, narrow anterior margins of pronotum and wide posterior margins that form a bell shape in dorsal view, posterior lobe of pronotum swollen and in lateral view appearing convex and with a posterior margin that completely obscures mesoscutum, flat and punctate hemelytron strongly constricted medially, posterolateral transparent areas on corium, incomplete transverse fascia, dark posterior coloration of cuneus, posterolateral margins of hemelytron swollen to form a lobe anterior to cuneal fracture, petiolate abdomen, pygophore lacking a dorsal spinelike process, and male genitalic structure. Differentiated from Arafuramiris by lack of a patch of sericeous setae on clavus and endosomal structure.

Female: Similar to male, but smaller in size, hemelytron shorter, vertex wider, anterior margin of eyes continuous with angle of vertex, and antennal segment 2 shorter and more clublike.

HOSTS: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea.

DISCUSSION: Papuamimus is similar in overall shape, size and morphology to Arafuramiris , but lacks the sericeous setae on the clavus and the posterior process of the endosoma terminates just past the anterior margin of the secondary gonopore, versus extending to near the apex of the anterior process, as in Arafuramiris .

Papuamimus irianicus Schuh

Figure 30

Papuamimus irianicus Schuh, 1984: 218 , figs. 715,

716, 719–723 (n. sp., diag., descr., DV, figs.

head-pronotum, MG).

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by characters in generic diagnosis, completely castaneous coloration of antennal segment 2, segment 2 of similar diameter over entire length, strongly swollen posterior lobe of pronotum distinctly convex in lateral view and not clearly differentiated dorsally from anterior lobe, and anterolateral margin of hemelytron wider than at posterior margin.

DESCRIPTION: See Schuh (1984).

HOSTS: Unknown; collected by traps and canopy fogging.

DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea.

Holotype: INDONESIA: West Irian : Cyclops Mountains, Ifar, 300 m, June 21, 1959, T.C. Maa. 18 ( BPBM) [not examined].

Specimens Examined: INDONESIA: Irian Jaya: Cyclops Mountains, Ifar, 2.6 ° S 140.61 ° E, 300 m, 21 Jun 1959, T.C. Maa, paratype, 18 (00321076) (BPBM). PAPUA

NEW GUINEA: Madang Province: Baiteta , 5.017 ° S 145.75 ° E, 09 Jun 1995, O. Missa, 18 (00302124) ( ISNB) ; 10 Jun 1996, O. Missa, Light Trap, 18 (00302131) ( ISNB) .

Figures

Figure 30. Distribution of Papuamimus spp.