Harpagophylus thryptomeni, 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 : 17-18

Harpagophylus thryptomeni , new species Figure 4, map 1, plate 1

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by the pale yellowish coloration, and uniquely by the clawlike appendage on the left side of pygophoral opening (fig. 4) and the projecting hook on the apex of the phallotheca. Most easily confused with H. agnew , H. scholtzii , and H. verticordii on the basis of pale coloration, but those species all lacking the hook on the pygophoral opening and also showing differences in the structure of the anterior process of the left paramere, the conformation of the right paramere, and the conformation of the dorsal and ventral endosomal processes.

DESCRIPTION: Male: Body weakly elongate, weakly ovoid; small, mean total length 2.23, mean width pronotum 0.73. COLOR- ATION (pl. 1): Head: Uniformly yelloworange; scapus and pedicellus unicolorous pale; labium pale with segment 4 heavily infuscate. Thorax: Pronotum, scutellum, and hemelytron unicolorous yellow-orange; 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 moderate; eyes leaving gena moderately exposed in lateral view. Antenna: Segment 2 of equal diameter over entire length; antennal fossa with ventral margin at ventral margin of eye. Labium: Just reaching onto abdomen. GENITALIA (fig. 4): Phallotheca: Nearly erect; dorsal surface without ornamentation; anterior and ventral surfaces without a keel; apex complex.

Female: Slightly more ovoid than male; small, mean total length 2.36, mean width

pronotum 0.77. COLORATION (pl. 1): As in male. GENITALIA: As in generic description.

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

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

DISTRIBUTION (map 1): Known from one locality in the Goldfields-Esperance region in Western Australia.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: 28 km S of Menzies (3.5 km E of Hiway), 29.91917uS 121.1514uE, 500 m, 25 Oct 1996, Schuh and Cassis, Thryptomene aspera aspera E. Pritz. (Myrtaceae) , det. Perth 05095093, 1 - (AMNH_PBI 00372759) ( WAMP).

PARATYPES: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: 28 km S of Menzies (3.5 km E of Hiway), 29.91917uS 121.1514uE, 500 m, 25 Oct 1996, Schuh and Cassis, Thryptomene aspera aspera E.Pritz. (Myrtaceae) , det. Perth 05095093, 1 - (00373227), 8 U (00373233– 00373240) ( AM), 3 - (00372760–00372761, 00373228), 6 U (00372762–00372766, 00373241) ( AMNH), 4 U (00373229–00373232) ( WAMP).