Eremotylus betoota, Randall T. Schuh & Michael D. Schwartz, 2016

Randall T. Schuh & Michael D. Schwartz, 2016, Nineteen new genera and 82 new species of Cremnorrhinina from Australia, including analyses of host relationships and distributions (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae: Phylininae: Cremnorrhinini), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 401, pp. 1-279 : 79-80

Eremotylus betoota , new species

Figure 26, map 7, table 1, plates 8, 9

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by the moderate size (mean length 3.00), elongate oval body, almost opaque hemelytron, and uniform green coloration in living specimens (pl. 8). Endosoma relatively short, weakly sigmoid, with one short and one long, slender apical spine just apicad of secondary gonopore (figs. 26–30, pl. 9); left paramere with a distinctly undulating posterior process (figs. 26–30). Similar to E. glaber , but that species somewhat more elongate and endosoma with two short spines and one long broadened apical spine, rather than one long, slender spine and one short spine; posterior process of left paramere also undulating in E. glaber and E. stuarti .

DESCRIPTION: MALE: Mean total length 3.00, mean pronotum width 0.81. COLORA- TION (pl. 8): Light green in life, changing to weakly orange when preserved; hemelytron almost opaque; membrane weakly fumose with a dark spot at apex of cells. SURFACE AND VESTITURE (pl. 8): Dorsum smooth, weakly shining; vestiture of reclining, dark, common setae. STRUC- TURE: Head (pl. 8): Short, vertex broad, eyes relatively large, frons not or only weakly swollen and projecting anterior to eye, eye occupying two-thirds height of head; antenna inserted just above ventral margin of eye, eye emarginate above insertion; antennal segment 2 relatively short and stout (0.80), 1.22 times width of head; labium reaching to posterior margin of mesosternum. Thorax (pl. 8): Mesoscutum moderately exposed. Hemelytron: Weakly elongate, costal margin nearly straight, cuneus relatively short. GENITALIA (fig. 26, pl. 9): Pygophore: Broadly conical. Endosoma: Distal one third bent to left in dorsal view, dorsal strap bifid distad of secondary gonopore, apically with one short and one long slender spine. Phallotheca: Apical portion narrow, dorsal margin without crest, aperture narrow slitlike, situated on anterodorsal margin and continuous across apex. Parameres: Left paramere elongate with dorsoposterior margin produced medially; posterior process bent with undulating lateral margin; anterior process absent with anterior region conforming to contour of paramere; long seta situated on anteromedial surface. Right paramere apically with small posterior and anterior points.

FEMALE (pl. 8): Mean total length 2.80, mean pronotum width 0.85; antennal segment 2 more slender than in male.

ETYMOLOGY: Named for the town of Betoota , Queensland, near the type locality; a noun in apposition.

HOST: Most known specimens recorded from Eremophila latrobei (Scrophulariaceae) . A single adult specimen and two nymphs are recorded from Prostanthera cambellii (pl. 33D) ( Lamiaceae ).

DISTRIBUTION (map 7): Known from the Alice Springs region of Central Australia and from Betoota in far southwestern Queensland.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Northern Territory: Henbury Station, 20.6 km NE of Henbury Homestead along Stuart Highway, 24.41°S 133.38583°E, 479 m, 16 May 2013, M. Cheng, C. Bayer, & M. Colquhoun, Eremophila latrobei F. Muell. subsp. glabra (Scrophulariaceae) , det. NT Herbarium Staff – Alice Springs, 1♂ (AMNH_PBI 00387535) (MNT).

PARATYPES: AUSTRALIA: Northern Territory: Henbury Station, 20.6 km NE of Henbury Homestead along Stuart Highway, 24.41°S 133.38583°E, 479 m, 16 May 2013, M. Cheng, C. Bayer & M. Colquhoun, Eremophila latrobei F. Muell. subsp. glabra (Scrophulariaceae) , det. NT Herbarium Staff – Alice Springs, 1♂ (00387434), 1♀ (00387536) (UNSW). Queensland: 73.7 km E of Betoota , 25.60813°S 141.3999°E, 180 m, 0 3 Nov 1998, Schuh, Cassis, Silveira, Eremophila latrobei F. Muell. (Scrophulariaceae) , det. Royal Bot Gard. NSW NSW427517, 1♂ (00087233), 7♀ (00087234, 0 0 389802–0 0 389 805, 0 0 390863, 00390864) (AM), 2♂ (00413 0 28, 00389801), 4♀ (00414885–00414888), 4♀ (00414885–00414888) (AMNH), 2♀ (00389806, 00389807) MNT. Western Australia: ca 35 km S of Menzies, 29.96214°S 121.1323°E, 600 m, 24 Oct 1996, Schuh and Cassis, Prostanthera campbellii F. Muell. (Lamiaceae) , det. PERTH staff PERTH 0 5099714, 1♂ (00414277) (AM).

OTHER SPECIMENS EXAMINED: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: ca 35 km S of Menzies, 29.96214°S 121.1323°E, 600 m, 24 Oct 1996, Schuh and Cassis, Prostanthera campbellii F. Muell. (Lamiaceae) , det. PERTH staff PERTH 0 5099714, 2 nymphs (00414278, 0 0 4142 79) (AM).