Harpagophylus scholtzii, 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 : 16-17

Harpagophylus scholtzii , new species Figure 3, map 1, plate 1

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by the pale, yellowish coloration, the endosomal processes both straight and erect, the dorsal process short, the ventral process much longer, the relatively short right paramere, and the triangular anterior process on the left paramere. Most easily confused with H. agnew , H. thryptomeni , and H. verticordii on the basis of the pale coloration, but those species differing from H. scholtzii in the structure and conformation of the dorsal and ventral endosomal processes.

DESCRIPTION: Male: Body weakly elongate, weakly ovoid; small, mean total length 2.17, mean width pronotum 0.75. 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 and veins weakly fumose; 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: Weakly projecting; interocular space relatively large; 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 pygophore. GENITALIA (fig. 3): Phallotheca: Nearly erect; dorsal surface without a fingerlike projection; apex complex.

Female: Slightly more ovoid than male; small, mean total length 2.26, mean width pronotum 0.83. COLORATION (pl. 1): As in male. GENITALIA: Not examined.

ETYMOLOGY: Named for the host genus, Scholtzia (Myrtaceae) ; a noun in apposition.

HOSTS: Scholtzia leptantha Benth. (Myrtaceae) .

DISTRIBUTION (map 1): Known from one locality in the Carnarvon region of Western Australia.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: 4.5 km NW of jct of Blowholes Rd and North West Coastal Hiway, N of Carnarvon, 24.72267uS 113.7158uE, 28 m, 27 Oct 2004, Cassis, Wall, Weirauch, Tatarnic, Symonds, Scholtzia leptantha Benth. (Myrtaceae) , det. Perth6988687, 1 - (AMNH_PBI 00327134) ( WAMP).

PARATYPES: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: 4.5 km NW of jct of Blowholes Rd and North West Coastal Hiway, N of Carnarvon, 24.72267uS 113.7158uE, 28 m, 27 Oct 2004, Cassis, Wall, Weirauch, Tatarnic, Symonds, Scholtzia leptantha Benth. (Myrtaceae) , det. Perth 6988687, 1 - (00327135), 1 U (0032- 7140) ( AM), 2 - (00327136, 00327137), 2 U (00327138, 00327139) ( AMNH), 1 U (0032- 7141) ( WAMP).