Revision of New Zealand Orthotylinae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae)

Abstract

Six genera and 11 species of Orthotylinae are now known from New Zealand. Zanchius Distant is newly recorded. One new genus, Tridiplous, and seven new species of endemic New Zealand Orthotylini are described and illustrated. Four new species are described in Tridiplous: T. burrus, T. parvapiatus, T. penmani, and T. virens, and three new species are described in Zanchius: Z. ater, Z. rubicrux, and Z. totus. Keys are provided to identify New Zealand taxa of the tribes of Orthotylinae, genera and species of Halticini, genera of Orthotylini, and species of Tridiplous and Zanchius. The bugs are illustrated with colour habitus photos, and drawings including male and female genitalia. Economic importance is discussed.

Systematics and Analysis of the Radiation of Orthotylini Plant Bugs Associated with Callitroid Conifers in Australia: Description of Five New Genera and 32 New Species (Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae)

“…Schwartz (2011) and Cassis and Symonds (2016) found that their characters are diagnostic at the species-group and species levels in orthotylines. These sclerotized structures have also been documented in New Zealand orthotylines (Eyles, 2005).…”

“…Close to Australia, the New Zealand genus Tridiplous Eyles possesses characters displayed in the callitroid-inhabiting taxa herein and Australian Orthotylini generally, such as a spinelike tergal process, a hooked left paramere with an expanded sensory lobe and three branched endosomal spicules in the males; and asymmetrical sclerotized structure around the vestibulum opening (Eyles, 2005). Tridiplous may be related to the callitroid-inhabiting Orthotylini based on such characters, however, the homology of the spicules in particular would need to be established.…”

Description of One New Species of Chileria and Three New Species of Orthotylus, with Nomenclatural and Distributional Notes on Neotropical Orthotylinae (Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylini)

“…Many genera are monotypic, and others are probably non-monophyletic. This situation is in sharp contrast to the fauna of North America, in which most of the large groups of Phylinae have been revised in recent years (e.g., Henry, 1984Henry, , 1991Henry, , 1999Henry and Schuh, 1979;Schuh, 2001Schuh, , 2004aSchuh, , 2004bSchuh and Schwartz, 1985, 1988, 2005Schwartz and Stonedahl, 2004;Weirauch, 2006aWeirauch, , 2006b). Orthotylinae genera have also been the subject of major revisions in North America (e.g., Henry, 1976b;Stonedahl and Schuh, 1986;Stonedahl andSchwartz, 1986, 1988).…”

“…3). A similar structure of the left paramere is present in some species of the New Zealand endemic genus Tridiplous (Eyles, 2005), for instance T. penmani (his fig. 63).…”

Tepakiphasma ngatikuri, a new genus and species of stick insect (Phasmatodea) from the Far North of New Zealand

“…This area occupies approximately 20 hectares only and is of outstanding biodiversity value because it has the greatest plant diversity of all remaining forest fragments in the Te Paki/North Cape area (Gardner & Bartlett 1980). Furthermore, this forest fragment and the immediate surrounding area is the type locality for a number of beetle (Holloway 1961;Larochelle & Larivière 2005), mirid hemipteran (Eyles 2005), spider (Forster 1970), skink (Chapple et al 2008), and plant species (von Konrat & Braggins 2005), and is the only known locality of several undescribed species of land snail (e.g., Goulstone et al 1993). The new, and as yet undescribed, species of Clitarchus discussed by Buckley et al (2010a) is widespread in the Te Paki/North Cape area including Radar Bush.…”