Ctypomiris 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 : 95

Ctypomiris Schuh Figures 19–20 ; plate 5

Ctypomiris Schuh, 1984: 221 (n. gen., descr., disc.).

TYPE SPECIES: Ctypomiris brendae Schuh, 1984 , by original designation.

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by posterior lobe of pronotum swollen, convex in lateral view and completely obscuring mesoscutum in dorsal view, shoulderlike humeral angles in dorsal view, presence of flat pronotal collar, punctate and flat hemelytron with weak medial constriction, lateral posterior margin of hemelytron expanded into lobelike process anterior and dorsal to cuneal fracture, R+M vein terminating at midpoint of hemelytron, lateral posterior margin of corium with transparent area, partial transparent trans- verse fascia, posterior area of cuneus darker than remainder of hemelytron, and spinelike apical processes of endosoma.

Female: Similar to male but smaller in size, with wider vertex, head below eyes more produced anteriorly and ventrally, antennal segment 2 narrower, and pronotum appearing less swollen in lateral view.

HOSTS: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.

DISCUSSION: Ctypomiris is unique for Leucophoropterini in possessing shoulderlike humeral angles of the pronotum and having a protruding spiculate process at the apex of the endosoma (fig. 20; Schuh, 1984: figs. 703, 706). The majority of Leucophoropterini have a simple, blunt, unadorned endosomal apex (e.g., Ausejanus spp. ).

Figures

Figure 19. Distribution map of Ctypomiris spp.

Figure 20. Male genitalia of Ctypomiris solomonensis (A–C).