Biromiris cyclops 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 : 78

Biromiris cyclops Schuh Figure 13

Biromiris cyclops Schuh, 1984: 209 , figs. 686, 688 (n. gen., diag., descr.).

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by characters of generic diagnosis, flat posterior margin of vertex, small size, vertex relatively narrow and nearly equal to width of one eye, narrowing of anterolateral margins of pronotum relative to posterior lateral margins forming bell shape in dorsal view, and lack of patches of black setae on hemelytron.

DESCRIPTION: See Schuh (1984).

HOSTS: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea.

Discussion: This species is similar to B. bulolo in external morphology and size, although it is relatively small compared to the rest of the Indo-Pacific and Australian fauna. The lateral pronotal carina is also partially visible in dorsal view in B. cyclops , which is not the case for the other two Indo- Pacific species and the Australian Biromiris species.

HOLOTYPE: INDONESIA: West Irian : Cyclops Mountains, Ifar, 300 m, June 22 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, 1♀ (00321086) ( BPBM). Ifar, W. Sentani, Cyclops Mountains, 200 m, 19 Jun 1959 – 21 Jun 1959, T.C. Maa, 1♀ (00318944) ( BPBM).

Figures

Figure 13. Distribution map of Biromiris spp.