A review of Malipatilius (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae), with a checklist of Lygaeoidea occurring in the Papuan Subregion Author Kondorosy, Előd 0000-0001-7162-0862 Department of Conservation Biology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Georgikon Campus, str. Deák F. 16, Keszthely, H- 8360 Hungary. Kondorosy.Elod@uni-mate.hu & kondorosy.ee@gmail.com Author Kovács, Szilvia 0000-0002-6479-8088 Department of Conservation Biology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Georgikon Campus, str. Deák F. 16, Keszthely, H- 8360 Hungary. Kovacs.Szilvia.georg@uni-mate.hu Author Schmidt, Péter 0009-0000-0032-3035 Festetics Doctoral School, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Georgikon Campus, str. Deák F. 16, Keszthely, H- 8360 Hungary. & Rippl-Rónai Museum, str. Fő 10, Kaposvár, H- 7400 Hungary. petya1919@gmail.com & peter.schmidt.smmi@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2024 2024-07-08 5477 2 147 170 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5477.2.3 journal article 299655 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.2.3 f74d4cb2-b667-4ace-b8b8-103cef796238 1175-5326 12683418 7AC52358-A4F4-4A0B-9549-27F148401F92 Malipatilius bodisjuditae Kondorosy & Schmidt , sp. nov. ( Figs. 3 , 14, 17) Type material. Holotype : Papua : Kokoda. / 1200 ft. iv. 1933 . / L.E. Cheesman. / B.M. 1933-427. ( ♂ , BMNH ) . Paratypes : Papua : Kokoda. / 1200 ft. vi. 1933 . / L.E. Cheesman. / B.M. 1933-427. ( 1♂ , BMNH , 1♂ , EKKH ) ; Papua : Kokoda. / 1200 ft. viii. 1933 . / L.E. Cheesman. / B.M. 1933-427. ( ♀ , BMNH ) . Description. Colour : A pair of yellow oblique spots present on posterior half of pronotum with a pale and hardly emergent impunctate midline. Scape rather pale, not darker than basiflagellum ( Fig. 3 ). Structure : Midline of posterior lobe of pronotum impunctate; humeral angles of pronotum acute; largest tooth of profemur shorter than diameter of tibiae; ostiolar peritreme of male relatively short, directed first straightly towards posterolateral edge of metepisternum, then curved posteriad, ending far from posterior margin of metepisternum; evaporatorium small, covering about half of metepisternum, not reaching its posterior margin (Fig.14). Measurements ( holotype male, followed by ranges of 2 male and 1 female paratypes ): Total body length: 4.20, 3.88–4.38; head: length 0.65, 0.61–0.68, width 0.70, 0.69–0.73, interocular distance 0.35, 0.34–0.35, eye length 0.25, 0.24–0.25, length of antenniferous tubercle 0.15, 0.14–0.15; length of antennomeres: I 0.61, 0.56–0.63, II 0.94, 0.89–0.91, III 0.79, 0.75–0.79, IV missing, 0.74; diameter of basiflagellum 0.11, 0.10–0.11; pronotum: length 0.88, 0.80–0.88, maximum width 1.18, 1.10–1.25, width at transversal furrow 0.80, 0.74–0.83, width at anterior margin 0.50, 0.49–0.54; scutellum: length 0.73, 0.68–0.79, width 0.65, 0.60–0.71; length of claval commissure 0.38, 0.36–0.44. Relative measurements: Table 3 . Diagnosis. M. bodisjuditae sp. nov. is highly similar to M. horvathi sp. nov. and M. microps sp. nov. The most significant differences are the acute humeral angles (which is characteristic only for the more colourful next species—other differences see there) and the length of the antenniferous tubercle: the eye is 1.58–1.73 times longer than the antenniferous tubercle, while in M. horvathi sp. nov. this ratio is at least 2.0 and in M. microps sp. nov. only 1.07–1.45. The scape is longer than in any other species, almost or just as long as the head (0.88–1.02), in any other species it is always less than 0.76 times longer; except in some individuals of M. horvathi sp. nov. , where the scape: head length ratio reaches 0.87 or even 0.89. Etymology. The new species is named in honour of associate professor Judit Bódis, Hungarian botanist, in the occasion of her 60th birthday. She is a good colleague and friend and a great help, especially of the senior author. Distribution. M. bodisjuditae sp. nov. is known from the middle part of the Papuan Peninsula (= Bird’s Tail Peninsula) ( Fig. 17 ).