Schuh linnavuorii, Schuh

Schwartz, Michael D., Weirauch, Christiane & Schuh, Randall T., 2018, New Genera And Species Of Myrtaceae-Feeding Phylinae From Australia, And The Description Of A New Species Of Restiophylus (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) Michael D. Schwartz Christiane Weirauch, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2018 (424), pp. 1-161 : 81

Scholtzicoris linnavuorii Schuh

Figure 18B , plate 31

Scholtzicoris linnavuorii Schuh, 2016: 161 (new species).

DISCUSSION: Pretarsal structure in this species was not documented with images as part of the original description ( Schuh, 2016 ). Figure 18B shows the broad base of the curving claw, fleshy, lyriform parempodia, and absence of pulvilli in this member of the Melaleucoides group of Exocarpocorina ( Schuh and Weirauch, 2010). Photos of the female genitalia (pl. 31) document the posterior wall with depressed or divided midline, sclerotized interramal sclerite, broad posterodorsally and narrow anteroventrally, interramal lobes produced anteriad into the genital chamber, no posterior prominence abutting ovipositor base, and flat intersegmental process membranous and projecting into genital chamber anteriorly and sclerotized posteriorly adjacent to interramal lobes.

SPECIMENS EXAMINED: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: NW Coastal Hiway 58 km N of Kalbarri Road, 27.43701 ° S 114.6768 ° E, 500 m, 30 Oct 1996, Schuh and Cassis, Baeckea pentagonantha F. Muell. (Myrtaceae) , det. PERTH staff PERTH 05879248, 23 (00414760, 00414756), 1♀ (00414777) (AMNH).

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FIG. 18. Pretarsus. Scanning electron micrographs. A. Melaleucacoris glomeratae, AMNH_PBI 00097804, frontal view. B. Scholtzicoris linnavuorii, AMNH_PBI 00414756, lateral view. C. Teddus katrinae, AMNH_PBI 00110752, frontodorsal view. Abbreviations: pe, parempodium; pul, pulvillus.