A systematic revision of the Australian ploiarioline thread-legged assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) Author Tatarnic, Nikolai J. Author Wall, Michael A. Author Cassis, Gerasimos text Zootaxa 2011 2762 1 30 journal article 48020 10.5281/zenodo.203726 1192f29e-067a-4ffe-9804-22e56539111a 1175-5326 203726 4ED699EF-39C5-42C3-9056-762C6B603040 Mesosepis papua Wygodzinsky Figs. 19 , 20 Mesosepis papua Wygodzinsky, 1966 : 396 –398, fig. 119. FIGURE 19. Forewing of Mesosepis papua . FIGURE 20. Distribution of Mesosepis and Tridemula species in Australia. Material examined. AUSTRALIA : Queensland: 1Ψ, Cape York, Top Rocky Yard, 13.9o S 143.2o E , 3 May 1961 , J.L. Gressitt ( BPBM ); 1 sex unknown, Crystal Cascades, 16.6o S 145.3o E , May 1994 (QM); 1 sex unknown, 3 km E. Lockerbie, Cape York, 10.8o S 142.5o E , 19–22 March 1987 , G.B. Monteith, Pyrethrum on logs, RF (QM); 2 sex unknown, Kuranda, 16.8o S 145.6o E , 22–28 December 1958 , D.K. McAlpine (AM). Diagnosis. This species can be recognized in Australia by the diagnostic features of the genus as well as its wing patterning ( Fig. 19 ). Distribution. Northern Queensland and New Guinea ( Fig. 20 ). Remarks. Wygodzinsky (1966) described this species as occurring only in New Guinea , though he remarks that a second species is known, but not described, from Australia . Our observations suggest that all Australian material from this genus appears to be conspecific with M. papua .