Sejanus ruber Carvalho and Gross

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 : 154-155

Sejanus ruber Carvalho and Gross

Sejanus ruber Carvalho and Gross, 1982: 12 , figs. 4–6, 95 (n. sp., descr., DV, MG); Schuh, 1984: 154 (disc. generic placement).

DISCUSSION: Examination of images of the holotype indicated that because of the unique coloration and form of the male genitalia of this species is not a member of the Leucophoropterini . The male genitalia have the following combination of characters: the posterior strap of the endosoma is separated from the anterior strap at the apex, forming a long spine much longer than in any Leucophoropterini ; the endosoma is relatively large compared to the small, simplified endosoma of most Leucophoropterini ; the secondary gonopore is almost medial ( Carvalho and Gross, 1982: fig. 4) rather than subapical; and the left paramere has a medial expansion ( Carvalho and Gross, 1982: fig. 45) consistent with the medial expansions of the Polyozus group ( Weirauch, 2007). The coloration pattern of Sejanus ruber is also unique based on the following: the predominant head and thoracic coloration is white, whereas in all Sejanus and Ausejanus species the head

and thoracic coloration is dark brown or sometimes red (e.g., S. neboissi ); and the metafemur has several spines with dark pigmented bases, an attribute that is otherwise present only in S. luteoelytratus .

HOSTS: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: Northeast Queensland.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Queensland: Jubilee Rd , 6 km (4 miles) NE of Innisfail, in rainforest at light, 4.xi.1966, E. Britton, 18( ANIC).