Thryptomenomiris kalbarri, Schuh & C. Weirauch, 2010

Schuh, R. T. & C. Weirauch, 2010, Myrtaceae-Feeding Phylinae (Hemiptera: Miridae) From Australia: Description And Analysis Of Phylogenetic And Host Relationships For A Monophyletic Assemblage Of Three New Genera, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (344), pp. 3-94 : 22-23

Thryptomenomiris kalbarri , new species Figure 7, map 2, plate 1

DIAGNOSIS: In addition to the characteristics in the generic diagnosis, recognized by the attenuated apex of the apical spine of the left paramere (fig. 7), in contrast to the blunt spine in T. yalgoo (fig. 9).

DESCRIPTION: Male: Body weakly to distinctly ovoid; small, mean total length 2.48, mean width pronotum 0.82. COLOR- ATION (pl. 1): Head: Uniformly pale; scapus and pedicellus unicolorous pale; labium pale with segment 4 heavily infuscate. Tho- rax: Pronotum unicolorous pale; scutellum unicolorous with remainder of dorsum; hemelytron pale with endocorium somewhat darker than remainder; markings on cuneus absent, cuneus transparent; membrane and veins weakly fumose; hind femur unicolorous pale, without black spots; hind tibial spines dark, without dark spots at bases. Abdomen: Venter unicolorous pale or mostly so. SUR- FACE AND VESTITURE: Dorsum with suberect or reclining black setae and some sericeous or woolly setae. STRUCTURE: Head: Somewhat projecting; interocular space moderate; eyes leaving gena moderately exposed in lateral view. Antenna: Segment 2 weakly tapering, more slender at base; antennal fossa with ventral margin 1 diameter above ventral margin of eye. Labium: Just reaching onto abdomen. GENITALIA (fig. 7): Phallotheca: Smoothly curving on dorsal margin; dorsal surface without a fingerlike or platelike projection; anterior surface without a keel; ventral surface with a projecting keel; apex simple.

Female: Slightly more ovoid than male; small, mean total length 2.66, mean width pronotum 0.84. COLORATION (pl. 1): As in male. GENITALIA (fig. 7): See generic description.

ETYMOLOGY: Named for the region of the type locality, Kalbarri , Western Australia ; a noun in apposition.

HOSTS: Thryptomene sp. (Myrtaceae) . The record from Malleostemon hursthousei may well represent a genuine host, but would benefit from additional documentation. The record from Solanum probably results from specimens being commingled in the field and does not represent a breeding host.

DISTRIBUTION (map 2): Known from Kalbarri National Park and the Gascoyne region in Western Australia.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: Kalbarri National Park, Loop Road, 27.56163uS 114.4376uE, 300 m, 28 Oct 1996, Schuh and Cassis, Thryptomene sp. (Myrtaceae) , det. Perth 05120543, 1 - (AMNH_PBI 00372768) ( WAMP).

PARATYPES: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: Kalbarri National Park, Loop Road, 27.56163uS 114.4376uE, 300 m, 28 Oct 1996, Schuh and Cassis, Thryptomene sp. (Myrtaceae) , det. Perth 05120543, 5 - (00373256– 00373257, 00373275–00373276, 00373284), 17 U (00373258–00373265, 00373277–00373283, 00- 373287, 00373292) ( AM), 4 - (00087217, 00372769–00372770, 00373291), 7 U (000872- 18, 00372772–00372774, 00373272–00373274) ( AMNH), 1 - (00373285), 2 U (00373288, 00373289) ( UCR), 2 - (00373255, 00373290), 1 U (00373286) ( UNSW), 6 U (00373266– 00373271) ( WAMP).

OTHER SPECIMENS EXAMINED: AUSTRA- LIA: Western Australia: 25 km S of Gascoyne Junction, on Towrana Homestead Rd, 25.39014uS 115.1506uE, 232 m, 04 Nov 2004, Cassis, Weirauch, Tatarnic, Symonds, Solanum sp. (Solanaceae) , det. Field ID, 1 - (00373293), 1 U (00373294) (AM). ca. 1 km S of Murchison House HS, Kalbarri National Park, 27.65822uS 114.2394uE, 60 m, 23 Oct 2004, Cassis, Wall, Weirauch, Symonds, Malleostemon hursthousei (W.Fitzg.) J.W.- Green ( Myrtaceae ), det. Perth6988423, 1 - (00373295) (AM).