Wallabicoris spyridiellus, Schuh & P. Pedraza, 2010

Schuh, R. T. & P. Pedraza, 2010, Wallabicoris, New Genus (Hemiptera: Miridae: Phylinae: Phylini) From Australia, With The Description Of 37 New Species And An Analysis Of Host Associations, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (338), pp. 1-118 : 75-78

Wallabicoris spyridiellus , new species Figure 39, 40; map 2; plate 5

DIAGNOSIS: Among those species with numerous red spots on the dorsum (pl. 5), most similar to W. spyridii in the largely pale cuneus, although W. spyridii with the transverse fascia incomplete, not extending onto the exocorium usually lacking red spots, on the cuneus; secondary endosomal strap with a submedial bifurcation and left paramere

elongate (fig. 40), similar to W. cuneotinctus , W. pultenaei , W. thomasii , and W. trymalii .

DESCRIPTION: Male: Body elongate ovoid, total length 3.93–4.12, l/w 5 2.87. COLOR- ATION (pl. 5): Pronotum pale with a few red

spot; scutellum pale, sometimes with a few red spots; hemelytron with scattered red spots; complete, transverse, red fascia on corium present just anterior to cuneal fracture; markings on cuneus sometimes present as a few red spots; membrane with elongate, contrasting, fumose marking at extreme base, remainder fumose over entire area, veins white; venter unicolorous pale or mostly so; antennal segment 1 unicolorous pale, with one or two black medial setae; antennal segment 2 unicolorous pale; labium pale with segment 4 heavily infuscate; hind femora with many brown or black spots; hind tibial spines dark with very small dark bases. SURFACE AND VESTITURE: Dorsum with suberect black setae, especially on pronotum, intermixed with pale setae on hemleytron, and with some sericeous or woolly setae. STRUCTURE: Head: Weakly projecting, ratio wh/lh 5 4.47 (fig. 39A); antennal fossa with ventral margin 1 diameter above ventral margin of eye; interocular space relatively small, ratio iod/wh 5 0.48; eyes leaving gena moderately exposed in lateral view (hg3/ he20); labium very long, reaching well onto pygophore. GENITALIA (fig. 39E, F, 40): Endosoma: Base very long, with an open Ushaped bend; distal half of shaft smoothly curving; primary endosomal strap elongate apically, ratio lae/lsg 2.40; apex of primary endosomal strap weakly arcuate; secondary endosomal strap very slender, of uniform width from endosomal bend to gonopore, reaching to level of secondary gonopore, bifurcating at about midpoint; secondary gonopore seen frontally in lateral view of endosoma. Phallotheca: Smoothly curving on dorsal margin; dorsal surface with a conspicuous keel. Left Paramere: Body very elongate, greatly exceeding margin of pygophore; in dorsal perspective open over nearly entire length; body tapered toward apex, apex elongate nipplelike; anterior process arising at posterior margin of shaft; anterior process angled posterodorsally; posterior process flattened, broadest at angulate apex; posteri- or process with strongly projecting shoulder at base; base of posterior process at least somewhat elevated above level of paramere body. Right Paramere: Body elongate and slender, ratio lrp/wrp 4.00; body more or less parallel sided; posterior margin without distinct protuberance subapically; body more or less confluent with base; apex with short fingerlike process.

ETYMOLOGY: Named for the host genus, Spyridium Fenzl (Rhamnaceae) .

HOSTS: Recorded only from Spyridium globulosum (Labill.) Benth. (Rhamnaceae) (pl. 11A, B).

DISTRIBUTION (map 2): Known from the Esperance area of south coastal Western Australia.

DISCUSSION: Spyridium globulosum has a coastal distribution ranging from Shark Bay in the Northwest to somewhat east of Esperance. We might therefore predict a wider distribution for W. spyridiellus on the basis of the host distribution.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: Duke of Orleans Bay, Table Island Picnic Area, 33.90852 ° S 122.5938 ° E, 50 m, 24 Nov 1999, R.T. Schuh and G. Cassis, Spyridium globulosum (Labill.) Benth. (Rhamnaceae) , det. field ID PERTH 05672066, 13 (AMNH_PBI 00087997) ( WAMP).

PARATYPES: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: 2.3 km E of Esperance on Fisheries Road, 33.81039 ° S 121.9334 ° E, 10 m, 23 Nov 1999, R.T. Schuh and G. Cassis, Spyridium globulosum (Labill.) Benth. (Rhamnaceae) , det. PERTH staff PERTH 05672066, 13 (00129743), 1♀ (00129744) ( AMNH). Cape Arid National Park, Thomas River Campground, 33.8539 ° S 123.0126 ° E, 20 m, 24 Nov 1999, R.T. Schuh, G. Cassis, & R. Silveira, Spyridium globulosum (Labill.) Benth. (Rhamnaceae) , det. field ID PERTH 05672066, 13 (00087989) ( AM), 63 (00128837–00128842), 8♀ (00128844–00128851) ( AMNH), 13 (00128843), 5♀ (00087990–00087992, 00128852– 00128853) ( WAMP).DukeofOrleansBay, Table IslandPicnic Area, 33.90852 ° S 122.5938 ° E, 50 m, 24 Nov 1999, R.T. Schuh and G. Cassis, Spyridium globulosum (Labill.) Benth. (Rhamnaceae) , det. field ID, 23 (00087342, 00087542), 1♀ (00087343) ( AM), 1♀ (00088000) ( AMNH), 13 (00087998) ( UNSW), 13 (00087996), 3♀ (00087999, 00088001–00088002) ( WAMP). Hellfire Bay, Cape Le Grande National Park, 34.00398 ° S 122.1696 ° E, 30 m, 24 Nov 1999, R.T. Schuh and G. Cassis, Spyridium globulosum (Labill.) Benth. (Rhamnaceae) , det. field ID, 93 (00087890–00087898), 10♀ (00087900– 00087905, 00087907, 00087914–00087916) ( AM), 103 () (00087884, 00087886, 00128855, 00128857–00128863), 15♀ (00128871–00128885) ( AMNH), 13 (00087899), 2♀ (00087912, 00087913) ( UNSW), 63 (00087885, 00087887– 00087889, 00128854, 00128856), 11♀ (00087908– 00087911, 00128864–00128870) ( WAMP).

OTHER SPECIMENS EXAMINED: AUSTRA- LIA: Western Australia: Hellfire Bay, Cape Le Grande National Park, 34.00398 ° S 122.1696 ° E, 30 m, 24 Nov 1999, R.T. Schuh and G. Cassis, Spyridium globulosum (Labill.) Benth. (Rhamnaceae) , det. field ID, 13 (00087906) (AM).