Biromiris cassisi, Menard & Schuh, 2011

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 : 77-78

Biromiris cassisi , new species Figure 13 ; plates 4, 8

DIAGNOSIS: Similar in hemelytral coloration and patterning to B. binjour but recognized by castaneous coloration of head, thorax, and legs (pl. 8), relatively narrow pronotal carina, and larger size.

DESCRIPTION: Male: Macropterous, medium sized, elongate, weakly medially constricted. Total length 3.22, width pronotum 1.03, maximum width across hemelytra 1.04. COLORATION: Head castaneous. Eyes dark brown. Labium paler brown. Antennal segment 1 golden, segment 2 golden basally and brown distally, segment 3 pale basally for approximately one-eighth of total length and brown distally, segment 3 completely brown. Pronotum, scutellum and thorax dark brown. Scent gland unicolorous with thoracic pleuron. Procoxae dark reddish with white margin basal to joint with profemora, mesocoxae brown basally, transparent white for remainder of length, metacoxae dark basally and pale distally at margin with metafemora. Pro- and mesofemora brown, metafemora missing in specimen. Pro- and mesotibiae dark brown basally, pale brown distally. Tarsomeres dark brown. Anterior margin of corium castaneous brown, anterior half of clavus transitioning into transparent partial fascia with dark brown margin that takes up M of total area of anterior portion of corium, dark margin extending across median of clavus. Remainder of hemelytron castaneous, lateral posterior margins of hemelytra completely opaque, reddish brown, and margin of corium and anterior of membrane darker brown (pl. 4). Over M of total area of cuneus white posterior to claval fracture, with lateral margins possessing reddish tinge, occupying less than M total area of cuneus, posterior darker reddish brown than corium. Abdomen castaneous. STRUCTURE: Clypeus projecting beyond anterior margin of frons in lateral view, barely visible in dorsal view. Vertex flat, width nearly 1.5 times width of one eye. Approximately M of total height of head below eyes. Length of antennal segment 2 greater than 1.33 times total head width, weakly curving medially. Antennal segments 3 and 4 slender. Labial segment 1 apex past posterior margin of head, apex of segment 4 reaching apex of metacoxa. Dorsal lateral margins of pronotum nearly straight, forming almost trapezoidal-shaped pronotum in dorsal view, lateral sides with narrow shelflike carina along medial line with anterior lobes visible dorsally as lateral extensions. Scent gland less than J total area of metepimeron. Cuneus triangular, length approximately less than M total length of hemelytral membrane. Pygophore less than one-fifth total length of abdomen. GENITALIA: Not examined.

Female: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY: Named for the collector Gerasimos Cassis, whose research and fieldwork in Australia have provided the basis for description of new species from the region.

HOSTS: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: New South Wales.

DISCUSSION: This species is only known from the holotype; we did not dissect the genitalia.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales: Cooloola N.P., 8 km along road to Pooma Lake , Dec 1986, G. Cassis. 18 (00088850) ( AM).

Figures

Figure 13. Distribution map of Biromiris spp.