Revision Of Leucophoropterini: Diagnoses, Key To Genera, Redescription Of The Australian Fauna, And Descriptions Of New Indo-Pacific Genera And Species (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae)
Author
Menard, Katrina L.
Author
Schuh, Randall T.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2011
2011-11-23
2011
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/361.1
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10.1206/361.1
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Sejanus trivinosus
Carvalho and Gross
Sejanus trivinosus
Carvalho and Gross, 1982: 10
, fig. 93 (n. sp., descr., DV).
DISCUSSION: This species was described based on
one female
specimen from
Victoria
,
Australia
. We were unable to examine the type specimen because its location is currently unknown, but based on the original description and illustrations of the type we could not with confidence confirm it is a leucophoropterine. In the original description the body and hemelytra are described as being yellowish white to pale brownish, with yellowish-orange markings on the head and dark reddish-orange markings on the mesoscutum, posterior margins of the hemelytra, clavus, and anterior margins of the cuneus (
Carvalho and Gross, 1982
: fig. 93). This color pattern is more consistent with the Australian
Polyozus
group (
Weirauch, 2007
: figs. 1–2) than with any
Sejanus
or
Ausejanus
spp.
, which are almost always mostly dark red, dark brown, or pale brown. Until male specimens are associated with the female
holotype
, and the genitalia are examined, generic and tribal placement of
S. trivinosus
cannot be confidently addressed.
HOSTS: Unknown.
DISTRIBUTION:
Victoria
.
HOLOTYPE
:
AUSTRALIA
:
Victoria
:
Dartmouth Survey
,
Six Mile Creek
, locality GA,
12.iv.1973
,
1 ♀
(
MVMA
) [not examined].
TAXA REMOVED FROM
LEUCOPHOROPTERINI