Lepidophylus guttatus, Randall T. Schuh & Michael D. Schwartz, 2016

Randall T. Schuh & Michael D. Schwartz, 2016, Nineteen new genera and 82 new species of Cremnorrhinina from Australia, including analyses of host relationships and distributions (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae: Phylininae: Cremnorrhinini), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 401, pp. 1-279 : 131

Lepidophylus guttatus , new species

Figure 52, map 13, table 1, plate 18

DIAGNOSIS: Known only from the type species and therefore recognized by the characters in the generic diagnosis.

DESCRIPTION: MALE (pl. 18, fig. 52): As in generic description. Mean total length 2.92, mean pronotum width 1.03.

FEMALE (pl. 18): As in generic description.

ETYMOLOGY: From the Latin, guttatus , “spotted,” in reference to the spotted dorsum.

HOST: Recorded from Eremophila ionantha (pl. 38C–E) ( Scrophulariaceae ).

DISTRIBUTION (map 13): Known only from the type locality near Peak Charles National Park, southwest of Norseman, Western Australia.

DISCUSSION: See generic discussion.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: 4.3 km N of Peak Charles National Park, 32.81408°S 121.2114°E, 200 m, 20 Nov 1999, R.T. Schuh, G. Cassis and R. Silveira, Eremophila ionantha Diels (Scrophulariaceae) , det. PERTH staff PERTH 0 5670438, 1d (AMNH_PBI 00099397) (WAMP).

PARATYPES: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: 4.3 km N of Peak Charles National Park, 32.81408°S 121.2114°E, 200 m, 20 Nov 1999, R. T. Schuh, G. Cassis, and R. Silveira, Eremophila ionantha Diels (Scrophulariaceae) , det. PERTH staff PERTH 0 5670438, 1♂ (00099398), 1d (00391055) (AMNH).