Sejanus fijiensis Schuh 1984
Creators: name: Menard, Katrina L.
name: Schuh, Randall T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Sejanus
Sejanus fijiensis

description: <i>Sejanus fijiensis</i> Schuh <i>Sejanus fijiensis</i> Schuh, 1984: 166, figs. 550, 553– 555, 561–563 (n. sp., diag., descr., disc., DV, MG, SEM). DISCUSSION: Schuh (1984) included this species in <i>Sejanus,</i> though he stated that it may in fact be an independent linage based on it possessing the following characters inconsistent with other <i>Sejanus</i> species and Leucophoropterini in general: the distinctly ovoid body form of the male, whereas all other <i>Sejanus</i>, <i>Ausejanus</i>, and other Leucophoropterini species have straight to medially constricted lateral margins of the hemelytron; the weak punctation over the entirety of the hemelytron that is absent in all <i>Sejanus</i> and <i>Ausejanus</i> spp. and present only as strongly punctate in the <i>Ctypomiris</i> clade; the relatively large endosoma that, while S-shaped, is far larger than in most Leucophoropterini (Schuh, 1984: fig. 561); and the anterior process of the left paramere splayed out and pointing in a different direction from the posterior process (Schuh, 1984: fig. 562), which is found elsewhere primarily in Pilophorini and the Phylini genera <i>Decomia</i> Poppius (e.g., <i>D. dialeptos</i> Schuh [1984: fig. 1093]), and <i>Pseudosthenarus</i> Poppius (e.g., <i>P. rozeni</i> Schuh [1974: fig. 306]) rather than in Leucophoropterini where all members have both processes pointing in the same direction (e.g., <i>S. funereus</i> [1984: fig. 565]; however, cf. <i>S. ecnomios</i> for one exception). Based on this combination of characters we do not consider <i>S. fijiensis</i> a member of <i>Sejanus</i> or Leucophoropterini. HOSTS: Unknown. DISTRIBUTION: Fiji. HOLOTYPE: <b>FIJI: Viti Levu</b>: Nandarivatu, 3000 feet, September 3, 1938, beating shrubbery, E.C. Zimmerman collector; 18 (BPBM). SPECIMENS EXAMINED: <b>FIJI: Moala:</b> Vunuka, 18.60138 <b>°</b> S 179.88311 <b>°</b> E, 153 m, 23 Aug 1938, E.C. Zimmerman, paratype, 1&amp;female; (00321168) (BPBM). <b>Ovalau:</b> Andubangda, 17.69196 <b>°</b> S 178.79145 <b>°</b> E, 45 m, 15 Aug 1938, E.C. Zimmerman, paratype, 1&amp;female; (00321169) (BPBM). <b>Vanua Mbalavu:</b> Bavatu, 16 Aug 1938, E.C. Zimmerman, paratype, 1&amp;female; (00321170) (BPBM). <b>Viti Levu: <i>Nandarivatu Co.:</i></b> Nandarivatu, 17.56423 <b>°</b> S 177.96079 <b>°</b> E, 653 m, 02 Sep 1938, E.C. Zimmerman, paratype, 18 (00321167) (BPBM). Rdg W of Vatuthere, Nandarivatu, 17.56423 <b>°</b> S 177.96079 <b>°</b> E, 653 m, 08 Sep 1938, E.C. Zimmerman, paratype, 18 (00321166) (BPBM). <b>Western Division:</b> Nandarivatu, Viti Lavu Island, 17.566 <b>°</b> S 177.966 <b>°</b> E, 670 m, 01 Nov 1938, E.C. Zimmerman, paratype, 1&amp;female; (00095336) (AMNH); 02 Nov 1938, E.C. Zimmerman, paratype, 18 (00196114) (AMNH); 03 Nov 1938, E.C. Zimmerman, 18 (00095335) (AMNH).
description: Published as part of <i>Menard, Katrina L. &amp; Schuh, Randall T., 2011, Revision Of Leucophoropterini: Diagnoses, Key To Genera, Redescription Of The Australian Fauna, And Descriptions Of New Indo-Pacific Genera And Species (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae), pp. 1-159 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (361)</i> on page 152, DOI: 10.1206/361.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5410834
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