Harpagophylus verticordii, 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 : 18-21

Harpagophylus verticordii , new species Figures 5, 6; map 1; plate 1

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by the pale, yellowish, coloration, and the conformation of the endosomal processes, both long, curving, and recurved toward the base of the endosoma. Most easily confused with H. agnew , H. scholtzii , and H. thryptomeni on the basis of pale coloration, but H. verticordii differing from all of those species in the structure and conformation of the dorsal and ventral endosomal processes.

DESCRIPTION: Male: Body weakly elongate, weakly ovoid; small, mean total length 2.43, mean width pronotum 0.81. COLOR- ATION (pl. 1): Head: Uniformly pale; scapus unicolorous pale; pedicellus unicolorous pale; labium pale with segment 4 heavily infuscate. Thorax: Pronotum unicolorous pale; scutellum unicolorous with remainder of dorsum; hemelytron unicolorous pale; 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 (fig. 5B): Dor- sum with reclining simple setae matching background coloration and some sericeous or woolly setae. STRUCTURE: Head (fig. 5A): Somewhat projecting; interocular space relatively large; eyes leaving gena moderately exposed in lateral view. Antenna: Segment 2 weakly tapering, more slender at base; antennal fossa with ventral margin 1 diameter above ventral margin of eye. Labium: Reaching to about anterior margin of pygophore. GENITALIA (figs. 5D–F, 6): Phallotheca: Nearly erect; dorsal surface without a fingerlike projection, and without a platelike projection; anterior and ventral surfaces without a keel; apex complex.

Female: Slightly more ovoid than male; small, mean total length 2.54, mean width pronotum 0.86. COLORATION (pl. 1): As in male. GENITALIA (fig. 6): As in generic description.

ETYMOLOGY: Named for the host genus, Verticordia (Myrtaceae) .

HOSTS: Darwinia diosmoides (DC.) Benth. , Verticordia forrestii F. Muell. , Verticordia monadelpha Turcz (pl. 9A), V. polytricha Benth. (pl. 9B) ( Myrtaceae ).

DISTRIBUTION (map 1): Known from Western Australia, from Kalbarri National Park in the south to the Carnarvon region in the north.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: Kalbarri National Park, Loop Road, 27.56163uS 114.4376uE, 300 m, 28 Oct 1996, Schuh and Cassis, Verticordia polytricha Benth. (Myrtaceae) , det. Perth 05120594, 1 - (AMNH_PBI 00370995) ( WAMP).

PARATYPES: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: Kalbarri National Park, Loop Road, 27.56163uS 114.4376uE, 300 m, 28 Oct 1996, Schuh and Cassis, Verticordia monadelpha Turcz. (Myrtaceae) , det. PERTH staff, 6 - (00087221, 00373196–00373200), 5 U (00373- 192, 00373205–00373208) Verticordia polytricha Benth. (Myrtaceae) , det. Perth 0512- 0594, 9 - (00373176–00373181, 00373193– 00373195), 5 U (00373187–00373191) ( AM), Verticordia monadelpha Turcz. (Myrtaceae) , det. PERTH staff, 5 - (00087511, 00087513, 00370998–00370999, 00373186), 5 U (00371000– 00371002, 00373203–00373204) Verticordia polytricha Benth. (Myrtaceae) , det. Perth 05- 120594, 2 - (00370996, 00370997) ( AMNH), Verticordia monadelpha Turcz. (Myrtaceae) , det. PERTH staff, 1 - (00373201) Verticordia polytricha Benth. (Myrtaceae) , det. Perth 05120594, 1 U (00373209) ( UCR), Verticordia monadelpha Turcz. (Myrtaceae) , det. PERTH staff, 1 - (00373202) Verticordia polytricha Benth. (Myrtaceae) , det. Perth 05120594, 1 U (00373210) ( UNSW), Verticordia monadelpha Turcz. (Myrtaceae) , det. PERTH staff, 1 - (00373185) Verticordia polytricha Benth. (Myrtaceae) , det. Perth 05120594, 3 - (0037- 3182–00373184), 4 U (00373211–00373214) ( WAMP). North West Coast Hiway 72 km NE of jct with Blowholes Rd, 24.18336uS 114.0381uE, 34 m, 28 Oct 2004, Cassis, Wall, Weirauch, Tatarnic, Symonds, Verticordia forrestii F.Muell. (Myrtaceae) , det. Perth- 6989004, 1 - (00373215), 2 U (00373216, 00373217) ( AM), Verticordia forrestii F. Muell. (Myrtaceae) , det. Perth6989004, 2 U (00322681, 00322682) ( AMNH).

OTHER SPECIMENS EXAMINED: AUSTRA- LIA: Western Australia: Kalbarri National Park, Loop Road, 27.56163uS 114.4376uE, 300 m, 28 Oct 1996, Schuh and Cassis, Darwinia diosmoides (DC.) Benth. (Myrtaceae) , det. Perth 05120551, 5 - (00373218–00373- 222), 3 U (00373223–00373225) (AM).