Asterophylus chrysocephali, Randall T. Schuh & Michael D. Schwartz, 2016

Randall T. Schuh & Michael D. Schwartz, 2016, Nineteen new genera and 82 new species of Cremnorrhinina from Australia, including analyses of host relationships and distributions (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae: Phylininae: Cremnorrhinini), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 401, pp. 1-279 : 35-36

Asterophylus chrysocephali , new species

Figures 3, 4, map 2, table 1, plates 2,

41B, G

DIAGNOSIS: Among Asterophylus species recognized by the easily visible secondary gonopore and the serrate membranous surface distad of the gonopore; hemelytral membrane white.

DESCRIPTION: MALE: Total length 2.96–3.79, pronotum width 0.80–0.98. COLORATION (pl. 2): Pale, weakly yellow, appendages more strongly so and darker than dorsum; dark spots at inner angle of cuneus and at apex of membrane cells, in addition to small spots on remainder of hemelytron, membrane otherwise white. SURFACE AND VESTITURE (figs. 3A, B): Surface smooth and dull, covered with reclining, pale, simple setae and with apically bident setae on head and pronotum. STRUCTURE: Head (fig. 3A): Frons weakly swollen and projecting anterior to eyes; eyes occupying two-thirds of height of head; antenna inserted just above ventral margin of eye, eye emarginate; antennal segment 2 long (1.03), 1.51 times width of head; labium reaching to apex of mesocoxa. Thorax (fig. 3A): As in generic description. Hemelytron: As in generic description. GENITALIA (fig. 4, pl. 2): Pygophore: With a few bristles left and right of aperture. Endosoma: Sigmoid, distal onehalf strongly bent to left; secondary gonopore subapical, moderately prominent; ventral strap subequal in length to dorsal strap; membranal sheath distad of secondary gonopore serrate; apex of endosoma narrowed and with small membrane. Phallotheca: As in generic description. Parameres: As in generic description.

FEMALE (pl. 2): Elongate ovoid, submacropterous, shorter than male; total length 2.84–3.32, pronotum width 0.85–0.94.

Coloration as in male. Eyes smaller than in male, frons weakly swollen and only weakly projecting anterior to eyes. GENITALIA as in plate 41B, G.

ETYMOLOGY: Named for the asteraceous genus Chrysocephalum , one of the known hosts.

HOSTS: Recorded from Chrysocephalum apiculatum , C. eremaeum , and Leucochrysum stipitatum (pl. 31C) ( Asteraceae ).

DISTRIBUTION (map 2): Known from the Alice Springs area of central Australia and adjacent western Queensland.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Northern Territory: 78 km S of Alice Springs at jct of Rainbow Valley Rd and Stuart Hiway, 24.23334°S 133.4567°E, 540 m, 27 Oct 2001, Cassis, Schuh, Schwartz, Silveira, Wall, Chrysocephalum apiculatum (Labill.) Steetz. (Asteraceae) , det. NSW staff NSW658372, 1♂ (AMNH_PBI 00097648) (MNT).

PARATYPES: AUSTRALIA: Northern Terri ‐ tory: 13.5 km E of Stuart Hiway on Horseshoe Bend Rd, 25.13334°S 133.2999°E, 464 m, 28 Oct 2001, Cassis, Schuh, Schwartz, Silveira, Wall, Chrysocephalum eremaeum Anderb. (Asteraceae) , det. NSW staff NSW658396, 18♂ (00098504–0 0 0 98506, 0 0 0 98458–0 0 0 98470, 0 0 391081, 00391082), 35♀ (00098507–0 0 0 98511, 0 0 0 98472–0 0 0 98500, 00098503) (AM), 2♀ (00098501, 00098502), 1♂ (00098471) (AMNH). 26.8 km W of Tanami Rd on Mt Wedge Station Rd, 22.50001°S 132.179°E, 589 m, 23 Oct 2001, Cassis, Schuh, Schwartz, Silveira, Wall, Leucochrysum stipitatum (F. Muell.) P.G. Wilson (Asteraceae) , det. NSW staff NSW658311, 1♂ (00391084) (AM), 8♂ (00098894–0 0 0 98899, 0 0 0 98902, 00098904), 18♀ (00098906–00098923) (AMNH), 1♂ (00098903) (ANIC), 1♂ (00098901) (CNC), 4♂ (00098924–00098927), 5♀ (00098928– 00098932) (MNT), 1♂ (00098905) (USNM), 1♂ (00098900) (ZISP). 78 km S of Alice Springs at jct of Rainbow Valley Rd and Stuart Hiway, 24.23334°S 133.4567°E, 540 m, 27 Oct 2001, Cassis, Schuh, Schwartz, Silveira, Wall, Chrysocephalum apiculatum (Labill.) Steetz. (Asteraceae) , det. NSW staff NSW658372, 1♂ (00391079) (AM), 23♂ (00097636–0 0 0 97642, 0 0 0 97645, 0 0 0 97647, 0 0 0 97649, 0 0 0 97697–0 0 0 97699, 0 0 0 97677–0 0 0 97683, 0 0 0 97126, 0 0 0 97644, 00097646), 45♀ (00097650–0 0 0 97667, 0 0 0 97670, 0 0 0 97673, 0 0 0 97700–0 0 0 97708, 0 0 0 97684–0 0 0 97696, 0 0 0 97127, 0 0 0 97675, 00097676) (AMNH), 5♀ (00097668, 0 0 0 97669, 0 0 0 97671, 0 0 0 97672, 00097674) (MNT). ~66 km N of Lasseter Hiway on Luritja Road, 24.68335°S 132.3212°E, 545 m, 0 2 Nov 2001, Cassis, Schuh, Schwartz, Silveira, Wall, Chrysocephalum apiculatum (Labill.) Steetz. (Asteraceae) , det. NSW staff NSW666297, 1♂ (00391080) (AM), 4♂ (00097741–00097744), 13♀ (00097745–00097757) (AMNH), 2♀ (00097762, 00097763) (ANIC), 2♀ (00097760, 00097761) (CNC), 2♀ (00097764, 00097765) (USNM), 2♀ (00097758, 00097759) (ZISP). ~75 km W of Stuart Hiway on Ernest Giles Road, 24.56668°S 132.5324°E, 511 m, 30 Oct 2001, Cassis, Schuh, Schwartz, Silveira, Wall, Chrysocephalum apiculatum (Labill.) Steetz. (Asteraceae) , det. NSW staff NSW666256, 15♀ (00098594–00098608), 1♂ (00391083) (AM). Queensland: 75.7 km W of Windorah, 25.37703°S 141.9457°E, 250 m, 0 3 Nov 1998, Schuh, Cassis, Silveira, Chrysocephalum apiculatum (Labill.) Steetz. (Asteraceae) , det. Royal Bot Gard. NSW NSW427518, 1♂ (00130586), 6♀ (00130588–0 0 130592, 00414294) (AMNH).