Sejanus chinai (Knight)

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 : 132

Sejanus chinai (Knight)

Idatiella chinai Knight, 1938: 27 (n. sp.).

Sejanus chinai: Carvalho, 1958: 141 (cat.); Schuh, 1984: 161 (disc.).

DIAGNOSIS: Similar in coloration and size to S. priscillianus but differs in longer, completely dark brown antennal segment 2. Also recognized by completely black antennal segment 1 and white area occupying anterior two-fifths of cuneus.

DESCRIPTION: See Knight (1938).

HOSTS: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: India.

DISCUSSION: Schuh (1984) stated that the holotype of this taxon presumably was deposited at the Natural History Museum, London, but did not examine it. We were also not able to examine the type, nor subsequently identified specimens. Howev- er, based on the original description, the species appears to be within the same size range, coloration, and body form of other Sejanus taxa, particularly S. priscillianus , with which it was compared in the original diagnosis.

HOLOTYPE: INDIA: South India : Kodai Kanal, T.V. Campbell, 1♀ ( BMNH) [not examined].