Metrosideros papua, Wygodzinsky, Wygodzinsky

Tatarnic, Nikolai J., Wall, Michael A. & Cassis, Gerasimos, 2011, A systematic revision of the Australian ploiarioline thread-legged assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae), Zootaxa 2762, pp. 1-30 : 27-28

Mesosepis papua Wygodzinsky

Figs. 19 , 20

Mesosepis papua Wygodzinsky, 1966: 396 –398, fig. 119.

Material examined. AUSTRALIA: Queensland: 1Ψ, Cape York, Top Rocky Yard, 13.9o S 143.2o E, 3 May 1961, J.L. Gressitt ( BPBM); 1 sex unknown, Crystal Cascades, 16.6o S 145.3o E, May 1994 (QM); 1 sex unknown, 3 km E.

Lockerbie, Cape York, 10.8o S 142.5o E, 19–22 March 1987, G.B. Monteith, Pyrethrum on logs, RF (QM); 2 sex unknown, Kuranda, 16.8o S 145.6o E, 22–28 December 1958, D.K. McAlpine (AM).

Diagnosis. This species can be recognized in Australia by the diagnostic features of the genus as well as its wing patterning ( Fig. 19 ).

Distribution. Northern Queensland and New Guinea ( Fig. 20 ).

Remarks. Wygodzinsky (1966) described this species as occurring only in New Guinea, though he remarks that a second species is known, but not described, from Australia. Our observations suggest that all Australian material from this genus appears to be conspecific with M. papua .

Figures

FIGURE 19. Forewing of Mesosepis papua.

FIGURE 20. Distribution of Mesosepis and Tridemula species in Australia.