Khumbumiris schwartzi Yasunaga & Duwal 2016, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Yasunaga, Tomohide
name: Duwal, Ram Keshari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Khumbumiris
Khumbumiris schwartzi

description: Khumbumiris schwartzi sp. nov.   
(Figures 1 (e), 2(g, h), 3)  
 Type material   
 Holotype. Male, NEPAL, Khumbu Himal, Sagarmatha National Park, Namche Bazar – Phorte [Phurte], 27.81°N, 86.69°E, 3400–3500 m altitude, on Abies spectabilis, 29 August 2005, T. Yasunaga (AMNH _ PBI 00380458) (NMTU).   
 Diagnosis   
 The present new species is recognized easily by the generic diagnostic characters; similar in external appearance to Nepalocoris elysae Schwartz (Stenodemini) and Erimiris tenuicornis Miyamoto & Hasegawa (Mecistoscelini), from which Khumbumiris schwartzi can be distinguished by the characters mentioned in the generic discussion above.   
 Description   
 Male. Body basically dark brownish, very slender in form; dorsum fuscous with yellow maculae (Figure 1 (e)); general appearance most reminiscent of a certain member of Dryophilocoris Reuter (Orthotylinae). Head sombre pale brown, weakly shining, with three darker stripes along mesal sulcus and laterally (Figure 2 (g)); posterior margin of eye sanguineous (Figure 1 (e)). Antenna dark brown; segment I reddish brown; segment II except for base and apex pale brown. Labium shiny pale brown; segment I a little more yellowish; apical half of segment IV darker. Pronotum dark brown, shining, medially pale or reddish brown, except for a pair of dark, mesal stripes on anterior half; calli transversely wrinkled; scutellum shiny fuscous, with a narrow, yellow, longitudinal stripe and a yellow spot at each corner; pleura mostly darkened. Hemelytron sombre brown, oily shiny, impunctate; anterior lateral margin of clavus and base of cuneus yellowish brown (Figure 1 (e)); membrane smoky brown, with apical areolar cell yellowish brown. Coxae and legs pale brown; all femora shiny dark brown; apex of each tibia slightly darker. Abdomen shiny dark brown. Male genitalia as in generic description.   
 Female. Unknown.   
 Measurements   
 Holotype male. Total length of body 4.75; head width including eyes 0.72; vertex width 0.38; lengths of antennal segments I–IV 0.57, 1.31, 1.24, 1.01; labial length 1.52; mesal length of pronotum including collar 0.61; basal width of pronotum 1.14; maximum width across hemelytron 1.31; and lengths of metafemur, tibia and tarsus 1.81, 2.28, 0.72.   
 Etymology   
Named in honour of our friend and mentor Michael D Schwartz, the world’ s leading expert on the mirine plant bug.  
 Distribution   
Nepal (Khumbu District).  
 Biology   
 A single adult male of this mirid was captured from Abies spectabilis (D.Don) Spach (Pinaceae), but the true host association needs further verification by occurrence of its immature forms. On the same coniferous species at the type locality [Phurte (or Phorte) Village, 3800 m altitude], several other mirids, an isometopine Sagarmathametopus fuscenscens described by Yasunaga and Duwal (2006), a typical green Lygocoris species (that currently cannot be given its unequivocal identity as all specimens were female), and Phytocoris sagarmathanus (described below) were found to co-occur.
description: Published as part of Yasunaga, Tomohide & Duwal, Ram Keshari, 2016, Three noteworthy mirine plant bugs inhabiting subalpine zones of the Nepalese Himalayas (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae), pp. 33-49 in Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) (J. Nat. Hist.) 51 (1 - 2) on pages 40-41, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2016.1245799, http://zenodo.org/record/4779744