Neopeplus Chérot, Malipatil & Schwartz, 2003

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 : 170

12. Neopeplus Chérot, Malipatil & Schwartz, 2003

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Neopeplus Chérot, Malipatil & Schwartz, 2003: 258 (as new genus) [type-species by original designation: Neopeplus trianai Malipatil, Chérot & Schwartz, 2003 ]. Neopeplus: Schuh 2002 –2013 (online catalog).

Diagnosis. Body long, total length 7–8.4, straight, uniformly yellow and red ( Fig. 35 ). Vertex sulcate, not carinate. Labium reaching posterior coxae. First antennal segment elongate, slightly club-like, straight. Eyes wide, posterior margin contiguous with pronotal collar. Pronotum relatively shining with reflective red calli including a small fuscous spot in middle and a fuscous posterior margin. Scutellum relatively flat, not ampule-like. Hemelytra translucent, reflective, yellow and red, their punctation shallow, clavus and corium with irregular but distinct rows of recumbent short setae, their veins raised. Cuneus reflective red. Tibia with light spines. Secondary gonopore complete, devoid of sclerite or long hairs; vesica devoid of comb or true spiculum; phallic support present in some species. Parieto-vaginal rings large but narrow, devoid of anterior projection or other additional sclerite; dorsolabiate plate reduced. Dorsal process of posterior wall absent, median process reduced, interramal sclerite (A structures) classical, undivided, interramal lobes (E-structures) wide.

Included species. N. dogoni Schwartz, Chérot & Malipatil in Chérot, Malipatil & Schwartz, 2003 *, N. trianai Malipatil, Chérot & Schwartz in Chérot, Malipatil & Schwartz, 2003 *.

Distribution. Australia (Queensland), Papua New Guinea.

Host plants. Myrtaceae (Chérot, Malipatil & Schwartz 2003).

Figures

FIGURES 28 – 35. Habitus of ACMc members: 28. Gollneria quadrituberculatum nomadicum Linnavuori, 1975, female holotype from South Sudan (AMNH). 29. Megacoelum formosanum Poppius, 1915, male lectotype from Taiwan (MZHF). 30. Megacoelum infusum Herrich-Schaeffer, 1837, a specimen from France (MNHN). 31. Megacoelum salsolae Linnavuori, 1986, male holotype from Saudi Arabia (AMNH). 32. Megacoelum zollikoferiae (Lindberg, 1953), male paratype from Fuerteventura, Canary Islands (MNHN). 33. “ Megacoelum ” esmedorae Ballard, 1927, female holotype from Coimbatore, India, a species remaining to reclassify, probably in a genus still to describe (NHM). 34. Neomegacoelum vitreum (Kerzhner, 1988), a male from Japan (USNM). 35. Neopeplus trianai Malipatil, Chérot & Schwartz in Chérot, Malipatil & Schwartz, 2003, female paratype from Australia (SAM). Scales = 1 mm.