Orotingis muiri Drake & Poor, 1941

Guilbert, Eric, 2006, New species and new records of Tingidae (Insecta: Heteroptera) of New Guinea, Zootaxa 1117, pp. 37-68 : 58-59

Orotingis muiri Drake & Poor, 1941

Orotingis eueides Drake, 1960 . New synonymy.

Material examined: 1M, New Guinea, (NW), Wisselmeren, Enarotadi, 1850m, 2–3.VIII.1962, J. Sedlacek, BPBM; 6M + 11F + 4L5, New Guinea, NE, Morobe distr., Lake Trist, 1600m, 21–26.XI.1966, on Streblis urophyllus (Moriaceae), G.A. Samuelson, BPBM; 1M+ 1F, New Guinea, Mt Kaindi, 2350m ,. IX. 1966, J.L. Gressitt, BPBM; 1M+ 6F, New Guinea, N, Morobe Prov., Wau, Edie Creek Road, 1280m, 20.VI.1984, pyrethrin fog of Lithocarpus (Fagaceae) canopy, W.C. Gagné & UREP, sample #11, tree #3311, BPBM; 1M, New Guinea, NE, Morobe Prov., Mt Missim, S side, 2000m, 29.V.1984, pyrethrin fog of Castanopsis sp. mature canopy, W.C. Gagné & UREP, sample #5, tree #3305, BPBM; 1F, New Guinea, Morobe Prov., Mt Missim, S side, 2000m, 14.VI.1984, permethrin fog of Castanopsis acuminatissima mature canopy, W.C. Gagné & UREP, sample #7, tree #3307, BPBM.

Comment: The two species of the genus differ by the quadriseriate ( O. muiri ) or pentaseriate discoidal area ( O. eueides ), the fourth antennal segment shorter ( O. muiri ) or longer ( O. eueides ) than third, and the absence of a dark band at the apex of the hemelytra in O. eueides . However, they are otherwise very similar. The specimens recorded here have a pentaseriate discoidal area and a fourth antennal segment shorter than third, except for two specimens with a quadriseriate costal area, a fourth antennal segment shorter than the third, and are the same size as the types of O. muiri . Three specimens have a quadriseriate costal area (all others are triseriate), one transverse band (middle of discoidal level) and the fourth and third antennal segments are subequal. In addition, they are the same size as O. eueides . Thus, these two species seem to be conspecific, but with the number of areolae on the hemelytra and the length of the third and fourth antennal segments varying.

O. muiri was originally known from Amboina ( Drake & Ruhoff 1965) and has been collected recently on Pometia pinnata (Sapindaeae) at Baiteta, near Madang (South­East New Guinea) ( Péricart 2000), while O. eueides was described from Duroto near Enarotadi (Wiselmeren, North­West New Guinea) ( Drake 1960). One of the specimens above here was collected at Enarotadi.