Thryptomenomiris yalgoo, Schuh & C. Weirauch, 2010

Schuh, R. T. & C. Weirauch, 2010, Myrtaceae-Feeding Phylinae (Hemiptera: Miridae) From Australia: Description And Analysis Of Phylogenetic And Host Relationships For A Monophyletic Assemblage Of Three New Genera, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (344), pp. 3-94 : 23-26

Thryptomenomiris yalgoo , new species Figures 8, 9; map 2; plate 1

DIAGNOSIS: In addition to the characteristics in the generic diagnosis, recognized by the blunt apex of the apical spine of the left paramere (fig. 9), in contrast to the attenuated spine in T. kalbarri (fig. 7).

DESCRIPTION: Male: Body weakly elongate, weakly ovoid; small, mean total length 2.65, mean width pronotum 0.88. COLOR- ATION (pl. 1): Head: Uniformly pale; scapus and pedicellus unicolorous pale; labium pale with segment 4 heavily infuscate. Thorax: Pronotum unicolorous pale; scutellum entirely red or orange; hemelytron with red or carmine spots, botches, or solid areas; markings on cuneus absent; membrane and veins weakly fumose; hind femur unicolorous pale, without black spots; hind tibial spines dark, without dark spots at bases. Abdomen: Venter unicolorous pale or mostly so. SUR- FACE AND VESTITURE (fig. 8C): Dorsum with reclining simple setae matching background coloration and some sericeous or woolly setae. STRUCTURE: Head (fig. 8A): Somewhat projecting; interocular space relatively large; eyes leaving gena moderately exposed in lateral view. Antenna: Segment 2 weakly tapering, more slender at base; antennal fossa with ventral margin at ventral margin of eye. Labium: Reaching to about anterior margin of pygophore. Thorax: Pretarsus (fig. 8D): As in generic description. GENITALIA (figs. 8E, F, 9). Phallotheca: Smoothly curving on dorsal margin; dorsal surface without a fingerlike or platelike projection; anterior surface with a short to elongate keel; ventral surface with a projecting keel; apex simple.

Female: Slightly more ovoid than male; small, mean total length 2.77, mean width pronotum 0.90. COLORATION (pl. 1): As in male. STRUCTURE: Head (fig. 8B). GENITALIA: Not examined.

ETYMOLOGY: Named for the small town of Yalgoo in the region of the type locality, Western Australia ; a noun in apposition.

HOSTS: Thryptomene aspera glabra E. Pritz. (Myrtaceae) .

DISTRIBUTION (map 2): Known from Yalgoo and Sandstone (Mid West region) in Western Australia.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: 46.5 km W of Yalgoo, 28.41302uS 116.2151uE, 600 m, 27 Oct 1996, Schuh and Cassis, Thryptomene aspera glabra E. Pritz. (Myrtaceae) , det. Perth 05120683, 1 - (AMNH_PBI 00135307) ( WAMP).

PARATYPES: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: 24 km W of Sandstone, 28.01426uS 119.0474uE, 650 m, 26 Oct 1996, Schuh and Cassis, Thryptomene aspera glabra E. Pritz. (Myrtaceae) , det. Perth 05095182, 1 - (00372767), 3 U (00087220, 00373297–003732- 98) ( AM), 1 - (00373296) ( AMNH). 46.5 km W of Yalgoo, 28.41302uS 116.2151uE, 600 m, 27 Oct 1996, Schuh and Cassis, Thryptomene aspera glabra E. Pritz. (Myrtaceae) , det. Perth 05120683, 2 - (00135304, 00135312), 1 U (001- 35317) ( AM), 9 - (00135305–00135306, 0013- 5308–00135311, 00135314–00135316), 10 U (00135318–00135320, 00135323, 00135325– 00135330) ( AMNH), 2 U (00135321, 001353- 22) ( WAMP).