Sejanus spiculatus Schuh, 1984

Menard, Katrina L. & Schuh, Randall T., 2011, Revision Of Leucophoropterini: Diagnoses, Key To Genera, Redescription Of The Australian Fauna, And Descriptions Of New Indo-Pacific Genera And Species (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (361), pp. 1-159 : 142-143

Sejanus spiculatus Schuh Figure 37

Sejanus spiculatus Schuh, 1984: 183 , figs. 500, 611, 625–627 (diag., descr., disc., n. sp., diag., descr., DV, MG).

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by pale brown hemelytron with a partial white transverse fascia across majority of clavus posterior to scutellum, two separate white spots on anterior of cuneus, pale colored legs, and presence of two spicules on medial surface of endosoma.

DESCRIPTION: See Schuh (1984).

HOSTS: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea.

DISCUSSION: The presence of a partial transverse fascia in S. spiculatus is similar to the condition seen in S. brittoni and S. palumae , but S. spiculatus can easily be distinguished by the presence of the two spicules on the lateral margins of the endosoma and the more strongly convex lateral corial margins.

HOLOTYPE: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Western Highlands Prov.: Taenga, Upper Jimmy Valley , 1200 m, July 14, 1955, J.L. Gressit. 18 ( BMNH) [not examined].

SPECIMENS EXAMINED: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Western Highlands: Korop, 1300 m, 12 Jul 1955, J.L. Gressitt, Light Trap, paratype, 18 (00321153) ( BPBM). Prov. unknown: Karop, Upper Jimmi, 6.433 ° S 145.083 ° E, 1300 m, 12 Jul 1955, J.L. Gressitt, Light Trap, paratype, 18 (00095347) ( AMNH). Tsenga, Upper Jimmi Valley., 1200 m, 15 Jul 1955, J.L. Gressitt, Light Trap, paratype, 18 (00321152) ( BPBM).

Figures

Figure 37. Distribution of Sejanus spp. in New Guinea (S–U).