TinginotumKirkaldy in New Zealand and Australia: A shared new species, and a new species ofTinginotopsisPoppius from Norfolk Island (Hemiptera: Miridae)

Abstract

Tinginotum minutum n. sp. from New Zealand and Australia, and Tinginotopsis tuberculatus n. sp. from Norfolk Island, are described and illustrated. The female genitalia for both genera are described and illustrated for the first time. The apex of the second gonapophysis in both genera differs from those previously illustrated for other species of Miridae. A contribution is made to defining the limits of the two genera, and to distinguishing between them. The known distribution of Tinginotum knowlesi (Kirkaldy, 1908) and Tinginotopsis camelus Poppius, 1915 is extended, and a host plant (Artocarpus altilis) for the former is recorded.

A remarkable new genus and six new species of fern-inhabiting plant bugs endemic to the Society Islands (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae: Filicicoris gen. nov.)

“…However, Chinamiris Woodward, 1959 differs in the eye in lateral view being slightly shorter than the head height, the carinate lateral margins of the pronotum, and the hemelytron is opaque, and neither glassy nor translucent (Eyles and Carvalho 1991). Filicicoris shares some similarities with Tinginotum Kirkaldy, 1902 in structure, but the latter genus has an opaque hemelytron, elongate setae and the vesica has distinct spicules (Eyles 2000). Diomocoris Eyles, 1999 shares some characteristics with Filicicoris in having green coloration and translucent hemelytron, but differs in the body being clothed with the dense silvery setae, the antennal segment I subequals to the vertex width, the right paramere is L-shaped, and the vesica has a large spicule.…”

Key to the genera of Mirinae (Hemiptera: Miridae) in New Zealand and descriptions of new taxa

“…This key to the genera of Mirinae may be read in conjunction with the following papers on New Zealand Mirinae: Eyles (1975Eyles ( , 1999aEyles ( , 1999bEyles ( , 2000, Eyles & Carvalho (1975, 1988, 1991, and Schwartz & Eyles (1999).…”