Carinatala meridiana, Hill, Lionel, 2015

Hill, Lionel, 2015, Three new genera of Schizopteridae from Australia with description of six new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Schizopteridae), Zootaxa 3990 (1), pp. 73-96 : 94

Carinatala meridiana sp. n.

( Fig 12 , dimensions in Table 1 )

Material: Holotype submacropterous male, New South Wales, Cabbage Tree Creek, 7 miles NW of Nelligen, 250 feet (76m) above sea level, S. Misko, 21 Feb 1969, wet sclerophyll forest litter, berlesate ANIC 135, HILL 00628, whole on card point, 20-007844 in ANIC; Allotype submacropterous female, as for male, HILL 00061, 20-007845 in ANIC whole in 1 vial but abdomen missing (prior to observation).

Description. Male submacropterous, generally brown, disc light brown in posterior third; legs yellow-brown; two pale areas on fore wings (distal membrane forming V-shape in repose and proximal veins Cu, 1AN, 2AN, the carinate R+M and some proximal cross veins pale), antennomere A3/A4 ratio unknown. Female colour as for male, A3 230% as long as A4.

Etymology. The specific epithet is the Latin adjective meridiana (southern), alluding to the southern distribution of this species within the known range of the genus.

Figures

FIGURE 12. A – D, Carinatala septentrionalis macropterous male (Lower Ballunjui Falls, HILL 00059); A, left fore wing, dorsal; B, right mid leg, posterior; C, right hind leg, anterior; D, one claw of hind leg. All scale lines 0.1 mm.