Wygomiris Schuh, 1984

Duwal, Ram Keshari, Yasunaga, Tomohide, Tomokuni, Masaaki, Nakatani, Yukinobu & Hirowatari, Toshiya, 2017, Further records on the plant bug tribe Hallodapini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae) in Asia, with proposition of two new species and a new synonymy, Zootaxa 4258 (5), pp. 401-424 : 419

Wygomiris Schuh, 1984

Wygomiris Schuh, 1984: 96 (n. gen.); 1995: 211 (cat.); Yasunaga, 2012: 16 (diag.); Schuh & Menard: 2013: 8 (suprageneric placement).

Type species by original designation: Wygomiris mingorum Schuh, 1984 .

Distinguished from other hallodapine genera by the following characters: brownish to fuscous coloration; with or without weakly contrasting white or pale fascia on hemelytron; distributed with mixed vestiture of recumbent sericeous setae and semierect simple setae on dorsum; tumid antennal segments IĪIV; exposed mesoscutum; moderately protruding ostiolar peritreme; and form of male genital structures. For detailed description see Schuh (1984: 96) and Yasunaga (2012: 16).

The genus was described by Schuh (1984), with four species described from the Philippines, Laos and Hong Kong. In recent studies Yasunaga (2012) and Yasunaga & Duwal (2015) added three additional species with several new distributional records for previously known species. We herein, provide further distributional records for W. taipokau and W. kaliyahae .

Nothing has been recorded concerning the biology of Wygomiris , but recent investigation by the second author discovered a nymph of W. kaliyahae in Thailand (see below).