Omnivoriphylus boiada, 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 : 154-155

publication ID

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

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DE8796-BEA3-0485-7B9D-39FEFCFC8A48

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scientific name

Omnivoriphylus boiada
status

sp. nov.

Omnivoriphylus boiada , new species

Figure 65, map 18, table 1, plates 22, 23

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by greenish to pale coloration with a contrasting dark spot on corium at inner angle of cuneus and at apex of membrane cells, elongate oval body (pl. 22), and slender endosoma with a single, undulating apical spine (fig. 65, pl. 23). Sexual dimorphism weak. Most similar to O. mangaensis in ovoid form of body, but O. boiada with a single, slender, sinuous, apical spine and O. mangaensis with two spines of unequal length, shorter one with a flattened apex; body form in O. charleville more strongly elongate and endosoma with a short tubercle on dorsal surface at level of proximal margin of secondary gonopore.

DESCRIPTION: MALE: Body form elongate ovoid; mean total length 4.19, mean pronotum width 1.12. COLORATION (pl. 22): Pale, nearly transparent, with dark spot on corium at inner angle of cuneus and on membrane at apex of cells. SURFACE AND VES- TITURE (pl. 22): Body surface smooth, weakly shining; vestiture of pale, reclining, common setae. STRUCTURE: Head (pl. 22): Moderately broad, closely conforming to anterior margin of pronotum, eyes weakly bulging; frons weakly projecting beyond anterior margin of eye; eye occupying two-thirds height of head; antenna inserted just above ventral margin of eye, eye emarginate at insertion, antennal segment 2 relatively short, stout, parallel sided (1.01), 1.18 times width of head; labium surpassing apex of metacoxa and reaching onto abdomen. Thorax (pl. 22): Pronotum with posterior margin weakly excavated; mesoscutum broadly exposed. Hemelytron: Corial margin weakly convex. GENITALIA (fig. 65, pl. 23): Pygophore: Two clumps of bristles ventrad of left paramere insertion. Endosoma: Dorsal strap extending beyond secondary gonopore as narrow slender undulating spine; ventral strap terminating just distad of gonopore as reflected hooplike sclerite. Phallotheca: Apical portion without dorsal crest; compressed ovoid aperture situated on anterior dorsal surface and reaching to apex; basal portion with long, narrow internal sclerite on right side. Parameres: Left paramere relatively short in dorsal view, dorsoposterior margin inflated and strongly elevated above posterior and anterior processes; apical portion of posterior process moderately long, straight; anterior process reduced to minute spine; prominent seta placed lateral of anterior point. Right paramere width gradually expanded toward apex, with prominent posterior angle and small point adjacent to anterior angle.

FEMALE (pl. 22): Coloration as in male; body form ovoid; eyes smaller, vertex relatively broader than in male; mean total length 3.83, mean pronotum width 1.16.

ETYMOLOGY: Named after Boiada Camp, Western Australia, near the type locality; a noun in apposition.

HOST: Recorded from Eremophila forrestii (pl. 37G) ( Scrophulariaceae ).

DISTRIBUTION (map 18): Known from Boiada and Lochada , Pilbara District, Western Australia.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: Lochada , Mungada Rd just W of turnoff to Boiada Camp, 29.18108°S 116.5003°E, 272 m, 19 Sep 2009, C. Symonds, Eremophila forrestii F. Muell. forrestii (Scrophulariaceae) , det. WA Herbarium, 1d (AMNH_PBI 00387385) (WAMP).

PARATYPES: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: Lochada , Boiada Camp, 29.19661°S 116.51489°E, 312 m, 16 Sep 2009, C. Symonds, Eremophila forrestii F. Muell. forrestii (Scrophulariaceae) , det. WA Herbarium, 1d (00387478), 1♂ (00387479) (AMNH); 20 Sep 2009, C. Symonds, 2d (00387389, 00387390), 1♂ (00387399) (AMNH), 3♂ (00387397, 0 0 387398, 00387400) (UNSW). Lochada , Mungada Rd just W of turnoff to Boiada Camp, 29.18108°S 116.5003°E, 272 m, 19 Sep 2009, C. Symonds, Eremophila forrestii F. Muell. (Scrophulariaceae) , det. WA Herbarium, 1♂ (00387396), 1d (00387383) (AMNH), 1d (00387386) (UNSW), 1d (00387384) (WAMP). Lochada , track due W. of Kelly Well, 29.08152°S 116.5543°E, 406 m, 15 Sep 2009, C. Symonds, Eremophila forrestii F. Muell. forrestii (Scrophulariaceae) , det. WA Herbarium, 1d (00387388), 3♂ (00387391, 0 0 387392, 00387394) (UNSW), 1d (00387387), 2♂ (00387393, 00387395) (WAMP).

OTHER SPECIMENS EXAMINED: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: Lochada , track due W. of Kelly Well, 29.08152°S 116.5543°E, 406 m, 15 Sep 2009, C. Symonds, Eremophila forrestii F. Muell. forrestii (Scrophulariaceae) , det. WA Herbarium, 7 nymphs (00387401–00387407) (UNSW).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Miridae

Genus

Omnivoriphylus

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