Sejanus melas 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 : 138-139

Sejanus melas Schuh Figure 36

Sejanus melas Schuh, 1984: 177 , figs. 499, 588, 595–597 (diag., descr., disc., n. sp., diag., descr., DV, MG).

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by relatively large size, broad body with convex lateral margins, completely castaneous coloration of body and hemelytron, completely dark cuneus lacking white pigmentation, semicircular secondary gonopore, and serrated surface of distal half of endosoma.

DESCRIPTION: See Schuh (1984).

HOSTS: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea.

DISCUSSION: This taxon is relatively broad for its length, and is unusual in that the femora (excluding the extreme distal margin of the profemur) are completely dark castaneous to black.

HOLOTYPE: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Madag Prov. : Finisterre Mountains, Moro Crater, 5500 feet., October 30–November 15, 1964, M.E. Bachus, 18 ( BMNH) [not examined].

Figures

Figure 36. Distribution of Sejanus spp. in the Philippines and New Guinea (F–M).