Xenocylapidius bioculatus (Girault)

Wolski, Andrzej & Gorczyca, Jacek, 2014, Revision of the plant bug genus Xenocylapidius (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae, Cylapinae), with descriptions of five new species from Australia and New Caledonia, ZooKeys 459, pp. 73-94 : 80-82

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Miridae

Xenocylapidius bioculatus (Girault) Figures 4, 11, 31

Rhinomiridius bioculatus Girault 1934: l (sp. n.); Carvalho 1957: 24 (catalog), 1974: 43 (list of types of species described by Girault); Cassis and Gross 1995: 150 (list); Schuh 1995: 36 (catalog); Gorczyca and Chérot 1998: 24 (note).

Xenocylapidius australis Gorczyca, 1999: 16, 17, Fig. 2 (sp. n.), (synonymized by Gorczyca 2006) (BPBM).

Diagnosis.

Recognized by the following set of characters: dorsum with a mottled, blackish yellow coloration (Fig. 4); apical half of antennal segment II with dense, fine, semirecumbent setae and with sparse, protruding, bristlelike setae; femora entirely blackish (Fig. 4).

Most similar to Xenocylapidius acutipennis , Xenocylapidius gemellus , X gressitti, and Xenocylapidius tamasi in sharing mottled dorsal coloration (Figs 1, 4, 5-6, 8). Xenocylapidius bioculatus can, however, be distinguished by the presence of bristlelike setae on the antennal segment II and the uniformly black coloration of femora (Fig. 4)

Biology.

Unknown.

Distribution.

Australia (New South Wales, South Australia) (Fig. 31).

Examined material.

Holotype of Xenocylapidius australis ♀: Australia N. S. W., Manly nr Sydney, North Head 16-21.2., D. Shcherbakov 1997 (US); 1?: Mt. Gibraltar National Park, N.S.W., 24 Feb 1965, D.K. McAlpine; Eeastern scarp, c. 3000 ft.; Carvalho to Drake Coll 1993 (USNM).