Arafuramiris dreikikir 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 : 36

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scientific name	Arafuramiris dreikikir Schuh
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Arafuramiris dreikikir Schuh View in CoL Figure 4 View Figure 4

Arafuramiris dreikikir Schuh, 1984: 203 View in CoL , figs. 665, 679, 682, 683 (n. sp., diag., descr., DV, figs. head-pronotum).

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by characters of generic diagnosis, medium size, eyes that do not take up entire lateral height of head, vertex width greater than width of half of one eye, darker coloration, and relatively narrow anterior margins of pronotum.

DESCRIPTION: See Schuh (1984).

HOSTS: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea.

DISCUSSION: Arafuramiris oswaldi is similar in overall morphology and coloration to A. dreikikir , but the latter species has a flat frons versus the relatively convex frons of A. oswaldi , is larger in size, the posterior lateral margins of the hemelytron are wider than the anterolateral margins, and it possesses visible clypeal muscle attachment sites.

HOLOTYPE: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: East Sepik Prov.; Dreikikir , 300–400 m., June 22, 1961, light trap, J.L. and M. Gressitt. 18 ( BPBM) [not examined].

SPECIMENS EXAMINED: INDONESIA: Papua: Nabire, S. Geelwink Bay, 3.36667 ° S 135.48333 ° E, 02 Jul 1962 – 09 Jul 1962, J.L. Gressitt, 1♀ (00318937) ( BPBM). PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Madang Province: Baiteta , 5.017 ° S 145.75 ° E, 1995, O. Missa, 7♀ (00301955– 00301959, 00302164–00302165) ( ISNB) GoogleMaps ; 24 May 1995, O. Missa, 1♀ (00196016) ( ISNB) ; 30 Jun 1995, O. Missa, 1♀ (00301954) ( ISNB) ; 03 Aug 1995, O. Missa, 2♀ (00301960, 00302166) ( ISNB) ; 01 May 1996, O. Missa, 38 (00196014, 00302135–00302136), 1♀ (00302140) ( ISNB) ; 05 Jun 1996, O. Missa, Light Trap, 1♀ (00302133) ( ISNB) ; 28 Jun 1996, O. Missa, 28 (00302137, 00302138), 1♀ (00302139) ( ISNB) .