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

description: Khumbumiris gen. nov.   
 Type species   
 Khumbumiris schwartzi Yasunaga & Duwal, sp. nov.   
 Diagnosis   
Distinguished from other genera of the Mirinae by the following unique sets of characters: elongate, slender, medium-sized body (with total length 4.7, Figure 1 (e)); oily shiny, impunctate dorsum with sparsely distributed, silky, short setae; generally long, linear antenna (Figure 1 (e)); labium with short, broadened segment I (Figure 1 (h)); trapezoidal pronotum somewhat constricted at calli, with W-shaped canal near posterior margin (Figure 2 (g)), with lateral margin wholly carinate (Figure 2 (h)); broad collar; narrow, parallel-sided hemelytron; elongate cuneus; cylindrical femora; short tarsomere II, much shorter than respective tarsomere I or III (Figure 2 (k)); and form of male genitalia (thick, short parameres, and endosoma with a spiculum, spinulate lobal sclerite, and slender seminal duct that is somewhat expanded near secondary gonopore, as in Figure 3).  
 Description   
 Male. Macropterous. Body elongate, slender, parallel-sided, reminiscent of orthotyline by external appearance (Figure 1 (e)); basic coloration shiny dark brownish; dorsal surface oily shiny, polished, impunctate, with very sparsely distributed, silky, short setae.   
 Head. Almost glabrous, rather oblique, a little produced anteriad; eyes small (in dorsal view, an eye much narrower than vertex, Figure 2 (g)); vertex with a shallow, longitudinal, mesal sulcation that is not surpassing level of posterior margin of eye.   
 Antenna. Long, almost linear, a little shorter than total body length; segment II slightly clavate toward apex, about as long as head and pronotum combined in dorsal view (Figure 2 (g)); segment III a little shorter than II; segment IV subequal in length to basal width of pronotum.   
 Labium. Generally short and broad, reaching but not exceeding apex of mesocoxa; segment I short, thickened, about twice as broad as remaining segments (Figure 2 (h)). Thorax. Pronotum shining, impunctate, trapezoidal, somewhat constricted at calli, wholly carinate laterally (Figure 2 (h)), with W-shaped canal along posterior margin (Figure 2 (g)); collar broad, about as thick as antennal segment I, generally flat, demarcated by shallow, transverse sutures (Figure 2 (g)); mesoscutum arched, widely exposed (Figure 2 (h)); scutellum somewhat swollen anteriad (Figure 2 (g)); scent efferent system relatively narrow and triangular (Figure 2 (j)).   
 Hemelytron. Oily shiny, generally slender, impunctate, not deflexed at cuneal fracture; embolial margin straight; cuneus elongate, about three times as long as wide; membrane vein extending to apical half of membrane, with angular apical inner corner.   
 Legs. Slender, long; femur cylindrical, not significantly flattened; tibia with densely distributed, dark, stiff, semi-erect setae; tibial spines pale brown, weak, only sparsely distributed; each tarsomere I as long as III, shorter than II and III combined; tarsomere II shortest, about half as long as I or III (cf. Figure 2 (k)); pretarsus with V-shaped, fleshy, apically divergent parempodia between claws, lacking distinct pulvillus (Figure 2 (i)).   
 Abdomen. Narrow, much shorter than wings.   
 Male genitalia (Figure 3). Parameres short, with short sensory setae; left paramere broad, C-shaped, with flattened and apically hooked hypophysis (Figure 3 (b)); right paramere with rather long, weakly curved and apically tapered hypophysis (Figure 3 (c)). Endosoma with a distinct, straight, apically notched spiculum and with an elongate, spinulate lobal-sclerite (Figure 3 (d)); secondary gonopore thick-rimmed, situated medially (Figure 3 (e)); seminal duct generally narrow, somewhat expanded near secondary gonopore (Figure 3 (d)).   
 Female. Unknown.   
 Etymology   
 Named for the type locality ‘Khumbu-Himal’ area, combined with the mirine generic name Miris F.; masculine.
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 34-37, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2016.1245799, http://zenodo.org/record/4779744