Sejanus occidentalis 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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/361.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5478565
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scientific name	Sejanus occidentalis Carvalho and Gross
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Sejanus occidentalis Carvalho and Gross View in CoL

Sejanus occidentalis Carvalho and Gross, 1982: 31 View in CoL , figs. 46–48 (n. sp., descr., disc., MG); Schuh, 1984: 154 (disc. generic placement).

DISCUSSION: Several characters in this taxon suggest that it is not a member of the Leucophoropterini : the endosoma is relatively large, despite the overall body size being equivalent to many Sejanus or Ausejanus species ; the pygophore is also relatively large, half the length of the abdomen; and the apex of the endosoma has multiple spicules and spines ( Carvalho and Gross 1982: fig. 46) that are unlike the condition seen in other taxa we place in the Leucophoropterini .

HOSTS: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: Western and South Australia.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: Bunbury , 33.32711 ° S 115.63699 ° E, 01 Oct 1958 – 20 Oct 1958, A Snell GoogleMaps , Holotype, 18 (00393290) ( AM) .

SPECIMENS EXAMINED: AUSTRALIA: South Australia: Bordertown, 36.43499 ° S 140.73857 ° E, 92 m, 22 Oct 1963, J.H. Sedlacek, 18 (00318934) ( BPBM). Western Australia: Bunbury, 33.32711 ° S 115.63699 ° E, 01 Oct 1958 – 20 Oct 1958, A Snell, paratype, 18 (00393291) ( AM).