Neoleucophoroptera, Menard & Schuh, 2011

Menard, Katrina L. & Schuh, Randall T., 2011, Revision Of Leucophoropterini: Diagnoses, Key To Genera, Redescription Of The Australian Fauna, And Descriptions Of New Indo-Pacific Genera And Species (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (361), pp. 1-159 : 117-119

Neoleucophoroptera , new genus Figure 29

TYPE SPECIES: Leucophoroptera solomonensis Schuh, 1984 .

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by lack of a pronotal collar, castaneous to golden coloration, nearly parallel-sided lateral margins of hemelytron, completely smooth and inpunctate hemelytron, lateral margin of corium anterior to cuneal fracture swollen and forming a lobelike process, lack of a complete transverse fascia, white anterior margin of cuneus widest at lateral margins and with remainder of cuneus dark brown and darker than majority of hemelytron, nearly straight lateral margins of pronotum that form a trapezoidal pronotum in dorsal view, width of vertex approximately equal to width of one eye, relatively short head with less than onefifth of total area of head below eyes, laterally elongate metafemur rounded in cross section, and form of male genitalia.

REDESCRIPTION: Male: Macropterous, small, lateral margins weakly convex. Total length 1.51–1.60, width pronotum 0.60–0.69, maximum width across hemelytra 0.61– 0.70. COLORATION: Castaneous to golden orange, with medially tapering transparent transverse fascia and white anterior margin of cuneus. Head: Golden orange to castaneous. Eyes deep red to purple. Labium golden. Antennal segment 1 golden to yellowwhite, segment 2 completely golden brown to proximal O golden brown distal M castaneous, segment 3 completely castaneous to proximal half golden, distal half castaneous, and segment 4 completely castaneous. Thorax: Pronotum, scutellum, and thoracic pleuron and venter golden orange to castaneous. Legs: Coxae golden orange to yellow-white. Profemora yellow-white to orange-yellow, mesofemora orange-yellow to yellow-white proximal M and castaneous distal O, metafemora orange-yellow to castaneous. Protibia completely yellow-white to golden, mesotibia yellow-white distally, dark brown basally or orange-yellow, metatibia orange-yellow to completely castaneous. Metatibiae with parallel rows of dark spicules. Tarsomeres completely golden. Hemelytra: Orange-yellow to castaneous and reddish, corium and clavus at the level of apex of scutellum with a complete, medially tapering transparent transverse fascia with dark posterior margin. Anterior margin of cuneus with white band along anterior margin of cuneus posterior to cuneal fracture, band narrowest adjacent to margin with membrane, taking up less than M total area coloration of cuneus, posterior of cuneus contrasting dark brown to reddish brown. Membrane castaneous to light brown, without vein pigmentation. Abdomen: Orange-yellow to castaneous. SURFACE AND VESTI- TURE: Dorsal surface of body and hemelytron covered with fine, brown simple setae. Reflective patches along lateromedial posterior margins of corium. STRUCTURE: Head: Frons convex, clypeus flat to weakly projecting. Height head approximately equal to width. Vertex convex, declining posteriorly, posterior margin elevated and finely carinate, width equidistant to width one eye. Eyes weakly removed from dorsal surface of vertex in anterior view, occupying greater than O total height of head to encompassing total height of head in lateral view, posterior margin of eyes partially obscuring anterior of pronotum. Apex labium just passing apex or midpoint of mesocoxae. Antennal segment 2 equal in length to 1.10 to 1.50 times head width. Thorax: Pronotum nearly twice as wide as long, with lateral margins weakly rounded and at a 60 ° angle relative to posterior margin of pronotum, forming a trapezoidal shape in dorsal view, dorsal surface weakly swollen in lateral view, distinctly rounded behind anterior margin, calli not visible, anterolateral angle with single dark, stout spine. Pronotal collar absent. Mesoscutum exposed, scutellum weakly transversely rounded. Legs: Long, metafemur 1.25 times longer than pro- and mesofemora, all femora narrow and weakly flattened. Hemelytra: Lateral margins weakly concave medially to nearly parallel sided, dorsally nearly flat. Cuneus triangular, approximately K total length of membrane, cuneal fracture weakly angled anteromesially. Abdomen: Nearly parallel sided with narrowing adjacent to attachment to thorax to weakly broadening adjacent to pygophore, pygophore J total length of abdomen. GENITALIA: Pygophore: Tapering dorsally toward apex, unadorned. Endosoma: Unknown.

Female: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY: From the Latin neo for new and Leucophoroptera for the genus of original placement of the type species; feminine.

HOSTS: Unknown; collected in light traps.

DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

DISCUSSION: Neoleucophoroptera is described to accommodate two species that were placed in Leucophoroptera by Schuh (1984) ( L. novoirlandense Schuh and L. solomonensis Schuh ), which are not closely related to the type species L. quadrimaculata . Furthermore, these two species have several characters that separate them from L. philippensis , which is now placed in the new genus Transleucophoroptera based on the phylogenetic analysis of the tribe (Menard and Woolley, in press): the lack of punctation on the hemelytron, the nearly parallel-sided lateral margins of the pronotum, and the relatively short head with less than M of the area of the head below the eyes.

Neoleucophoroptera novoirlandense (Schuh) , new combination Figure 29

Leucophoroptera novoirlandense Schuh, 1984: 146 , figs. 475, 478, 480–488, 491–495 (n. sp., diag., descr., DV, figs. head-pronotum).

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by golden coloration of corium and clavus, castaneous cuneus with a relatively narrow white anterior margin, complete transverse fascia with transparent patches most of lateral anterior margins of corium, eyes nearly equal to height of head and with anterior margins that obscure vertex in lateral view, and weakly swollen dorsal margin of pronotum.

DESCRIPTION: See Schuh (1984).

HOSTS: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea.

HOLOTYPE: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: New Ireland Prov.: SW New Ireland, ridge above Camp Bishop, 15 km up Kait River , 250–750 m, July 13, 1956, J.L. Gressitt. 18 ( BPBM) [not examined].

SPECIMENS EXAMINED: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: New Ireland Province: Gilingil Pl’n, 2 m, 16 Jul 1956, J.L. Gressitt, paratype, 18 (00095328) ( AMNH). Ridge above Camp Bishop , 15 km up Kait R., 4.48744 ° S 152.76638 ° E, 284 m, 10 Jul 1956, J.L. Gressitt, paratype, 18 (00318870) ( BPBM) ; 13 Jul 1956, J.L. Gressitt, paratype, 1♀ (00318871) ( BPBM) .

Neoleucophoroptera solomonensis (Schuh) , new combination Figure 29

Leucophoroptera solomonensis Schuh, 1984: 149 , figs. 476, 479, 490 (n. sp., diag., descr., DV, figs. head-pronotum).

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by overall castaneous coloration with posterior half of corium reddish, antennal segment 2 pale on proximal O, relatively broad white anterior margin of cuneus, eyes occupying majority of height of head but not obscuring vertex in lateral view, obsolete gula, and relatively flat dorsal margin of pronotum.

DESCRIPTION: See Schuh (1984).

HOSTS: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: Solomon Islands.

HOLOTYPE: SOLOMON ISLANDS: NW Malaita: Dala , June 19, 1964, malaise trap, R. Straatman. 18 ( BPBM) [not examined].

Figures

Figure 29. Distribution of Neoleucophoroptera spp.