The big-eyed bug genus Germalus Stål, 1862 in New Guinea (Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Geocoridae) Author Kóbor, Péter Centre for Agricultural Research, Plant Protection Institute, 15 Herman Ottó Street, H- 1022 Budapest, Hungary Author Kondorosy, Előd Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Georgikon Campus, Department of Conservation Biology, 16 Deák Ferenc Street, H- 8360 Keszthely, Hungary text Zootaxa 2022 2022-09-06 5182 3 265 278 journal article 138993 10.11646/zootaxa.5182.3.4 93b0e11c-0298-431a-af60-3a9ec2aadc1c 1175-5326 7053043 C6D187FF-BCFD-4249-9322-05E99AB898AC Germalus fuscovittatus Malipatil, 2013 ( Figs. 1A , 2B–D , 3A , 4 ) Material examined. 1 ♀ ( BMNH ): “ PAPUA N.G. / Bulolo / 10. VIII. 1951 / /on Shrub / H. Roberts coll. / C.I.E. A 13485 // 1560 // Germalus sp. / det. M. R . Wilson 1983; 1 ♀ ( BPBM ): NEW GUINEA NE: / Wau 1200 m / 4. X. 1932 // on Sunflower (Helianthus anuus) // W.C. Gagne Collector / BISHOP” ; 1 ♂ ( BPBM ): “ NEW GUINEA / Wau , Bishop / Museum, No.37 / Field Station / 15–25 IV. 1965 / leg. J. Balogh & J. Szent-Ivanyi ” . Diagnosis . Germalus fuscovittatus can be separated from other Germalus species of New Guinea with the combination of following characters: dark spot at humeral angles absent, dorsum with broad, fuscous median band extending from head to apex of abdomen; eyes less stylate than in other New Guinean Germalus species and not projected; punctuation of claval commissure missing, punctuation of M-R complete. Dorsal supporting process of peritreme short, reversing ( Fig. 3A ) Distribution . Records of G . fuscovittatus is known from northern Queensland, islands of the Torres Strait and New Guinea ( Malipatil & Blackett 2013 , present article). Specimens examined in present study were collected near Bulolo and Wau, Papua-New Guinea (fig. 4), habitat: Southeastern Papuan rain forests.