Gyrophallus donggali, 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 : 102-104

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.269465

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DE8796-BE5F-0476-7B96-3F2BFE34889F

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scientific name

Gyrophallus donggali
status

sp. nov.

Gyrophallus donggali , new species

Figure 38, map 9, table 1, plates 12, 13, 46B, D, G

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by the moderate size, the large J-shaped endosoma with the middle conspicuously wide, and the three relatively large, diverging apical spines (fig. 38, pl. 13).

Most similar in size to G. karara ; structure of male genitalia also distinctive.

DESCRIPTION: Male: Mean total length 4.10, mean pronotum width 1.04. COLORATION (pl. 12): Light green to pale, hemelytron cloudy; corium with a weak dark spot at inner angle of cuneus; membrane at most weakly fumose, with a weak dark spot at apex of cells. SURFACE AND VESTI- TURE (pl. 12): Vestiture of reclining, pale, common setae. STRUCTURE: Head (pl. 12): Eye occupying about three-fifths height of head; antenna inserted just above ventral margin of eye, eye weakly emar ‐ ginated; antennal segment 2 of moderate length (1.17), 1.33 times width of head; labium reaching to about posterior margin of mesosternum. Thorax (pl. 12): Mesoscutum broadly exposed. Hemelytron: Moderately elongate, costal margin nearly straight, cuneus elongate. GENITALIA (fig. 38, pl. 13): Pygophore: Large and elongate. Endosoma: Large, J-shaped; dorsal strap trifurcate apically with one straight spine and two parallel transverse spines of unequal length; ventral strap terminating proximal of secondary gonopore. Phallotheca: Apical portion short and broadly conical; aperture on anterior dorsoapical aspect, relatively large ovoid; basal portion reaching anteriad to three quarters length of pygophore in situ; right side with narrow sclerotized strap. Parameres: Left paramere with sharp apex of anterior process. Right paramere moderately large; apically truncate with a small point on anterolateral angle.

Female (pl. 12): Coloration as in male; differing from male as in generic description; mean total length 3.85, mean pronotum width 1.08. GENITALIA as in plate 46B, D, G.

ETYMOLOGY: Named for the Donggali Conservation Park, South Australia, the type locality; a noun in apposition.

HOST: Recorded from Eremophila scoparia (Scrophulariaceae) .

DISTRIBUTION (map 9): Known only from the Donggali Conservation Park south of Oakbank and northeast of Adelaide, South Australia.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: South Australia: Donggali Cons. Park, 30.1 km S of Oakbank, 33.28742°S 140.5881°E, 100 m, 0 8 Nov 1996, Schuh and Cassis, Eremophila scoparia (R.Br.) F. Muell. (Scrophulariaceae) , det. PERTH staff PERTH 0 5236533, 1♂ (AMNH_PBI 00137418) (SAMA).

PARATYPES: AUSTRALIA: South Australia: Donggali Cons. Park, 30.1 km S of Oakbank, 33.28742°S 140.5881°E, 100 m, 0 8 Nov 1996, Schuh and Cassis, Eremophila scoparia (R.Br.) F. Muell. (Scrophulariaceae) , det. PERTH staff PERTH 0 5236533, 5♀ (00128504–00128508) (AM), 1♂ (00128500), 2♀ (00128502, 00128503) (AMNH), 1♀ (00128501) (SAMA).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Miridae

Genus

Gyrophallus

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