Sejanus novecaledonicus Schuh

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

Sejanus novecaledonicus Schuh

Sejanus novecaledonicus Schuh, 1984: 180 , figs., 500, 604–606 (n. sp., diag., descr., DV, MG, host).

DISCUSSION: Sejanus novecaledonicus is the most atypical species placed in Sejanus by Schuh (1984), and we do not consider it a member of Leucophoropterini based on the following characters: the left paramere has the anterior and posterior process pointing in opposite directions ( Schuh, 1984: fig. 605), much more like members of Decomia (e.g., D. microgonoporos Schuh [1984 : fig. 1145]) than Sejanus and most other Leucophoropterini ; and the completely yellow background coloration with small, scattered, bright red spots, is a condition not present in any other Leucophoropterini that, if unicolorous, are usually dark brown without any spots on the body or metatibiae (e.g., Sejanus ).

HOSTS: Casuarina collina Poiss. ex Pancher and Sebert (Casuarinaceae)

DISTRIBUTION: New Caledonia.

HOLOTYPE: NEW CALEDONIA: Ouano Beach , November 13, 1958, C.R. Joyce. 18 ( BPBM) [not examined].

SPECIMENS EXAMINED: NEW CALEDO- NIA: Province Sud: Nouméa, 22.2667 ° S 166.45 ° E, 1 m, Aug 1940, F.X. Williams, Casuarina collina (Casuarinaceae) , paratype, 1♀ (00321109) ( BPBM). Plum, 22.27282 ° S 166.60867 ° E, 150 m, 23 Mar 1968 – 25 Mar 1968, J.L. Gressitt, Light Trap, paratype, 1♀ (00321110) ( BPBM).