Harpagophylus agnew, 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 : 14-15

Harpagophylus agnew , new species Figure 1, map 1, plate 1

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by the pale, yellowish coloration, the endosomal processes both long, straight, and erect, the simple apex of the phallotheca, the long, relatively slender right paramere, and the denticulate anterior process on the left paramere. Most easily confused with H. scholtzii , H. thryptomeni , and H. verticordii on the basis of pale coloration, but those species all differing in the structure of the anterior process of the left paramere, the conformation of the right paramere, the structure of the apex of the phallotheca, and the conformation of the dorsal and ventral endosomal processes.

DESCRIPTION: Male: Body weakly elongate, weakly ovoid; small, mean total length 2.49, mean width pronotum 0.79. COLOR- ATION (pl. 1): Head: Uniformly pale, yellow; scapus and pedicellus unicolorous pale; labium pale with segment 4 heavily infuscate. Thorax: Pronotum scutellum, and hemelytron unicolorous pale, yellow; markings on cuneus absent; membrane very weakly fumose, veins; 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 reclining simple setae matching background coloration and some sericeous or woolly setae. STRUCTURE: Head: Barely projecting; interocular space moderate; eyes leaving gena only very slightly exposed in lateral view. Antenna: Segment 2 of equal diameter over entire length; antennal fossa with ventral margin at ventral margin of eye. Labium: Reaching to about anterior margin of pygo- phore. GENITALIA (fig. 1): Phallotheca: More or less right angulate; dorsal surface without a fingerlike projection, and without a platelike projection; anterior surface without a keel; ventral surface without a projecting keel; apex simple.

Female: Slightly more ovoid than male; small, mean total length 2.41, mean width pronotum 0.80. COLORATION (pl. 1): As in male. GENITALIA: Not examined.

ETYMOLOGY: Named for the town of Agnew , Western Australia, near the type locality ; a noun in apposition.

HOSTS (table 2): Thryptomene aspera glabra E. Pritz. (Myrtaceae) .

DISTRIBUTION (map 1): Known only from the type locality in the Goldfields region of Western Australia.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: 31.7 km W of Agnew toward Sandstone, 27.96227uS 120.4277uE, 800 m, 26 Oct 1996, Schuh and Cassis, Thryptomene aspera glabra E. Pritz. (Myrtaceae) , PERTH 05095190, 1 - (AMNH_PBI 00136500) ( WAMP).

PARATYPES: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: 31.7 km W of Agnew toward Sandstone, 27.96227uS 120.4277uE, 800 m, 26 Oct 1996, Schuh and Cassis, Thryptomene aspera glabra E. Pritz. (Myrtaceae) , det. Perth 05095190, 3 - (00373242–00373244), 5 U (00373246–00373250) ( AM), 3 - (00136499, 00136501, 00373245), 4 U (00136502, 00136504, 00136506–00136507) ( AMNH), 4 U (00373251– 00373254) ( WAMP).