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

description: <i>Arafuramiris gressitti</i> Schuh Figure 4 <i>Arafuramiris gressitti</i> Schuh, 1984: 204, figs. 665, 680, 684, 685 (n. sp., diag., descr., DV, figs. head-pronotum). DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by characters of generic diagnosis, broad eyes that take up entirety of lateral and anterior height of head, vertex that nearly equal to half width of one eye, paler coloration, and small size. DESCRIPTION: See Schuh (1984). HOSTS: Unknown. DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea. DISCUSSION: The large eyes that dominate the lateral and anterior height of the head, the paler coloration, and the small size make it one of the more easily recognized species of <i>Arafuramiris</i>. HOLOTYPE: <b>INDONESIA: West Irian:</b> Hollandia Binnen, 100 m; November 24, 1958, light trap, J.L. Gressitt. 18 (BPBM) [not examined]. SPECIMENS EXAMINED: <b>PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Madang Province:</b> Baiteta, 5.017 <b>°</b> S 145.75 <b>°</b> E, 16 Mar 1993, O. Missa, 28 (00302171, 00302172) (ISNB); 17 May 1993, O. Missa, Light Trap, 28 (00302168, 00302169) (ISNB); 19 May 1993, O. Missa, 18 (00302149) (ISNB); 31 May 1993, O. Missa, Light Trap, 18 (00302142), 18 (00302141) (ISNB); 08 Jun 1993, O. Missa, Light Trap, 18 (00302167) (ISNB); 1995, O. Missa, 28 (00301932, 00301933), 28 (00301937, 00302159), 6&amp;female; (00301922–00301924, 00302007, 00302180– 00302181), Light Trap, 18 (00301934) (ISNB); 24 May 1995, O. Missa, 48 (00301952, 00302161– 00302163), 1&amp;female; (00301951)(ISNB); 26May1995,O. Missa, 18 (00302176), 1&amp;female; (00196017) (ISNB); 14 Jun 1995, O. Missa, 38 (00301941–00301942, 00302006) (ISNB); 30 Jun 1995, O. Missa, 38 (00301930–00301931, 00302178) (ISNB); 30 Jun 1995, O. Missa, 28 (00301943, 00301944) (ISNB); 13 Jul 1995, O. Missa, 1&amp;female; (00302008) (ISNB); 03 Aug 1995, O. Missa, 18 (00301940), 4&amp;female; (00301926–00301929) (ISNB); 04 Aug 1995, O. Missa, 2&amp;female; (00301925,00302009)(ISNB); Apr1996, O. Missa, Light Trap, 1&amp;female; (00302134) (ISNB); 09 Apr 1996, O. Missa, Light Trap, 38 (00301947, 00302174–00302175) (ISNB); 10 Apr 1996, O. Missa, Light Trap, 18 (00302173) (ISNB); 15 Apr 1996, O.Missa, LightTrap,18(00302177)(ISNB); 24 Apr 1996, O. Missa, Light Trap, 18 (00302179) (ISNB); 01 May 1996, O. Missa, 18 (00301953) (ISNB); 03 Jun 1996, O. Missa, Light Trap, 38 (00301938–00301939, 00302150) (ISNB); 05 Jun 1996, O.Missa, LightTrap,18(00301948)(ISNB); 10 Jun 1996, O. Missa, Light Trap, 18(00301946), 18 (00302148) (ISNB); 11 Jun 1996, O. Missa, LightTrap,18(00302004)(ISNB); 17Jun1996,O. Missa, Light Trap, 18(00301945) (ISNB); 18 Jun 1996,O. Missa,18(00301950)(ISNB); 04Jul1996, O. Missa, Light Trap, 28 (00301949, 00302005), 18(00302170)(ISNB); 09Jul1996,O. Missa, Light Trap, 28 (00301935, 00301936) (ISNB); 10 Jul 1996, O.Missa, LightTrap,18(00302151)(ISNB).
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 36, DOI: 10.1206/361.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5410834
description: {"references": ["Schuh, R. T. 1984. Revision of the Phylinae (Hemiptera, Miridae) of the Indo-Pacific. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 177 (1): 1 - 476."]}