Omnivoriphylus charleville, 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 : 155-157

Omnivoriphylus charleville , new species

Figure 66, map 18, table 1, plates 22, 23

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by the weakly elongate, parallel-sided body form, the dirty yellow overall coloration (in preserved specimen), the dark spot on corium at inner angle of the cuneus, the dark spot at the apex of the membrane cells (pl. 22), and the endosoma with a single straight, apical spine and a smooth-margined membranous envelope containing the apical tubercle and the secondary gonopore with a short, erect spine on the dorsal surface (fig. 66, pl. 23). Coloration and markings most similar to O. boiada and O. mangaensis , but body form more strongly elongate, apical endosomal spine in those species undulating rather than straight as in O. charleville , and O. mangaensis with a second, apically flattened, spine arising just distad of secondary gonopore.

DESCRIPTION: MALE: Mean total length 4.40, mean pronotum width 1.12. COLORATION (pl. 22): Dirty yellow (in preserved specimen), translucent, with distinct dark spot on corium at inner angle of cuneus and on membrane at apex of cells. SURFACE AND VESTITURE (pl. 22): Body surface smooth, weakly shining; vestiture of pale, reclining, common setae. STRUCTURE: Head (pl. 22): Moderately broad, not closely conforming to anterior margin of pronotum, eyes weakly bulging; eye occupying slightly less than three-quarters height of head; antennae inserted even with ventral margin of eye; antennal segment 2 relatively long, parallel sided (1.16), 1.45 times width of head; labium reaching apex of metacoxa. Thorax (pl. 22): Pronotum with posterior margin weakly excavated, mesoscutum broadly exposed. Hemelytron: Corial margin weakly convex. GENITALIA (fig. 66, pl. 23): Pygophore: With diffuse bristles. Endosoma: Dorsal strap with straight apical spine extending beyond secondary gonopore by length subequal to gonopore; ventral strap with sclerotized region terminating just beyond distal end of gonopore, apically with membranous sheath conforming to endosomal contour; dorsal surface of sheath with moderately long suberect tubercle. Phallotheca: Apical portion well sclerotized, long and narrow; dorsal surface without crest; small ovoid aperture with slightly flared margin situated on anterior dorsal surface; basal portion with strongly sclerotized margins. Parameres: Left paramere with somewhat elongate typically phyline form; dorsoposterior margin strongly elevated above posterior and anterior processes; posterior process relatively long in dorsal view; anterior process comparatively long, apically rounded; prominent seta placed laterad of process. Right paramere with roughly uniform, apically constricted and truncate with a rounded protuberance on posterior angle.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY: Named after Charleville , southern Queensland, Australia, near the type locality; a noun in apposition.

HOST: Recorded from Eremophila freelingii (pl. 37H, I) ( Scrophulariaceae ).

DISTRIBUTION (map 18): Known only from the type locality near Charleville , southern Queensland.

DISCUSSION: The endosoma and the rest of the male genitalia are nearly identical in the single known specimens of O. charleville and O. wanarra . We nonetheless treat these as separate taxa because of their distinctive shape, coloration, wide geographical disjunction, and different recorded hosts.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Queensland: 14.2 km E of Charleville , 26.42171°S 146.3756°E, 375 m, 31 Oct 1998, Schuh, Cassis, Silveira, Eremophila freelingii F. Muell. (Scrophulariaceae) , det. Royal Bot. Gard. NSW NSW427507, 1d (00413057) (QM).