Galapagomiris Carvalho, 1968

Chérot, F. & Malipatil, M. B., 2016, A review of Adelphocoris - Creontiades - Megacoelum complex (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirini), with descriptions of two new genera and four new species, Zootaxa 4126 (2), pp. 151-206 : 168

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scientific name

Galapagomiris Carvalho, 1968
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8. Galapagomiris Carvalho, 1968

( Figure 22)

Galapagomiris Carvalho in Carvalho & Gagné, 1968: 187 (as new genus) [type-species by original designation: Galapagomiris longirostris Carvalho in Carvalho & Gagné, 1968 ]. Galapagomiris: Schuh 1995: 770 (catalog), 2002–2013 (online catalog).

Diagnosis. Body elongate, total length 5, parallel sided, uniformly chocolate brown to black ( Fig. 22); head protruding and pointed in dorsal view, labium long, reaching apex of hemelytra, antennae with first segment short and slightly club-like; pronotum shagreen, dorsally pilose, lacking a pair of stiff erect setae on anterior corners, pilosity of collar and disk sub-erect, relatively long, the callosities obsolete; mesoscutum partially covered; scutellum black, slightly swollen, pilose, the pilosity sub-erect; hemelytra shagreen, slightly reflective, with sparse, shallow and reduced punctation and with white, short recumbent pilosity. Secondary gonopore complete, devoid of sclerite, very wide, occupying almost entire phallic width; phallus devoid of comb, true spiculum or phallic support, the phallic apex with denticle fields.

Included species. G. longirostris Carvalho in Carvalho & Gagné, 1968 *.

Distribution. Galapagos archipelago.

Host plants. No data available.

Carvalho, J. C. M. & Gagne, W. (1968) Miridae of the Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, 36 (7), 147 - 219.

Schuh, R. T. (1995) Plant bugs of the world (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae). Systematic Catalog, Distributions, Host List, and Bibliography. Entomological Society of New York, New York, xii + 1329 pp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Miridae