Omnivoriphylus frankenii, 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 : 157-158

Omnivoriphylus frankenii , new species

Figure 67, map 18, table 1, plates 22, 23, 51B, D, F

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by the small size, elongate, slender, parallel-sided body form, and bulging eyes; coloration dirty yellow, membrane infuscate with contrasting white veins (pl. 22); endosoma with two apical spines of subequal length, the longer spine undulating (fig. 67, pl. 23); left paramere with an undulating posterior process, a very strongly elevated anterior margin, and a vestigial anterior process; right paramere asymmetrically lanceolate with a long fingerlike apical projection (fig. 67). Female elongate ovoid and with conspicuously smaller eyes than male (pl. 22). Paramere morphology distinctive among species Omnivoriphylus spp.

DESCRIPTION: MALE: Small, elongate, parallel sided; mean total length 3.35, mean pronotum width 0.87. COLORATION (pl. 22): Pale, weakly yellow, opaque, with weak dark spot on corium at inner angle of cuneus and stronger spot on membrane at apex of cells. SUR- FACE AND VESTITURE (pl. 22): Body surface smooth, dull; vestiture of dark, reclining, common setae. STRUCTURE: Head (pl. 22): Broad, closely conforming to anterior margin of pronotum, eyes bulging in dorsal view, eye occupying two-thirds height of head in lateral view; antennae inserted just above ventral margin of eye, eye emarginate above insertion; antennal segment 2 relatively short, robust, and of uniform diameter (1.02), 121 times width of head; labium reaching apex of mesocoxa. Thorax (pl. 22): Pronotum with lateral margins nearly straight, calli weakly demarcated, posterior lobe nearly flat to weakly elevated, posterior margin weakly excavated, mesoscutum narrowly exposed. Hemelytron: Corial margin straight, cuneus moderately elongate. GENITALIA (fig. 67, pl. 23): Pygophore: Majority of surface with relatively dense suberect setae; left dorsal surface with low mound anteriad of aperture. Endosoma: Sigmoid, of uniform width over most of length, dorsal strap extending to secondary gonopore then bifid with tapered, sharply pointed, apically diverging spines of length approximately equal to secondary gonopore; ventral strap terminating at apex of narrow secondary gonopore. Phallotheca: Apical portion without crest; narrow slitlike aperture situated on anterior surface continuing around apex; basal portion broad and long. Parameres: Left paramere elongate in dorsal view; anterolateral surface strongly elevated above anterior and posterior processes, posterior process undulating in dorsal and lateral views, swollen and produced laterad at midpoint; anterior process vestigial, rounded, continuous with paramere contour; prominent seta placed on anterolateral edge. Right paramere asymmetrically lanceolate, terminating in long narrow apical spine.

FEMALE (pl. 22): Coloration as in male; body form very elongate ovoid; eyes somewhat smaller, vertex relatively wider than in male; mean total length 3.09, mean pronotum width 0.88. GENITALIA as in plate 51B, D, F.

ETYMOLOGY: Named after the genus Frankenia (Frankeniaceae) , host of all known specimens of this taxon.

HOST: Recorded from Frankenia sp. ( Frankeniaceae ).

DISTRIBUTION (map 18): Known only from the type locality northwest of Quilpie, southwestern Queensland.

DISCUSSION: In repose the apical portion of the phallotheca rests tucked under and hidden by the anterior margin of the dorsoposterior margin of the left paramere.

HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Queensland: 82.6 km NW of Quilpie, 26.3479°S 143.6454°E, 190 m, 0 3 Nov 1998, Schuh, Cassis, Silveira, Frankenia sp. ( Frankeniaceae ), det. Royal Bot Gard. NSW NSW427347, 1d (AMNH_ PBI 00130124) (QM).

PARATYPES: AUSTRALIA: Queensland: 82.6 km NW of Quilpie, 26.3479°S 143.6454°E, 190 m, 0 3 Nov 1998, Schuh, Cassis, Silveira, Frankenia sp. ( Frankeniaceae ), det. Royal Bot Gard. NSW NSW427347, 3d (00130128, 0 0 130129, 00389925), 29♂ (00130177–0 0 130 182, 00389926-00389938, 00389945-00389950, 00389920-00389923) (AM), 12d (00130123, 0 0 1 30125–0 0 130127, 0 0 130130, 0 0 130132, 0 0 130 134–0 0 130138, 00087518), 41♂ (00130139–0 0 1 30142, 0 0 130145–0 0 130176, 0 0 130183, 0 0 130 185, 0 0 130189, 0 0 130143, 00130144) (AMNH), 2d (00130131, 00130133), 4♂ (00130184, 0 0 130186–00130188) (QM).

OTHER SPECIMENS EXAMINED: AUSTRALIA: Queensland: 82.6 km NW of Quilpie, 26.3479°S 143.6454°E, 190 m, 0 3 Nov 1998, Schuh, Cassis, Silveira, Frankenia sp. ( Frankeniaceae ), det. Royal Bot Gard. NSW NSW427347, 5 nymphs (00389951-00389954, 00389924) (AM), 1 nymph (00411922), 2 adults, sex unknown (00411923, 00411924) (AMNH).