Goodeniaphila cassisi Tatarnic, 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Tatarnic, Nikolai J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Goodeniaphila
Goodeniaphila cassisi

description: Goodeniaphila cassisi sp. n.
Figures 1, 4–7
Holotype: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: 81 km E of Norseman, 32.07347°S 122.6166°E, 600 m, 23 Oct 1996, Schuh and Cassis, Coopernookia strophiolata (F.Muell.) Carolin (Goodeniaceae), det. PERTH staff PERTH 0 5054923, 13 (AMNH _ PBI 00030284) (WAMP).
Diagnosis: Distinguished from G. schuhi by the predominantly black legs and distinct male and female genitalia. Additionally, males and females of G. c a s s i s i tend to be the same size, whereas in G. schuhi females are generally noticeably larger.
Description: COLORATION (Figs. 1, 5): Antennae uniformly dark brown to black; legs dark brown to black, paler orange-brown at joints; remainder of body coloration as in generic description. SURFACE AND VESTITURE (Figs. 1, 6): As in generic description.
STRUCTURE: As in generic description. Male genitalia (Figs. 6 G–I, 7A–D): Pygophore, parameres, ductus seminis, and secondary gonopore as in generic description; phallotheca short, apically subquadrate, heavily contoured and sclerotized; endosoma with long, apically serrate and branching spatula-shaped spicule dorsally, apically with various short, branch-like spicules and large, rounded funnel-like spicule; endosoma apically affixed to phallotheca. Female genitalia (Figs. 7 E–G): Sclerotized rings subcontiguous, elongateelliptical; posterior wall with paired, bulging, sclerotized processes, posteriorly with fields of spines; remainder as per generic description.
Distribution: This species is known from two collecting events in Western Australia and one in inland South Australia (Fig. 4).
Host Plant Associations: This species has been collected in large numbers from Coopernookia strophiolata.
Etymology: G. cassisi is named in honor of my mentor and Ph.D. supervisor, Gerry Cassis, for his significant contributions to heteropteran biology.
Paratypes: AUSTRALIA: South Australia: Camp and Victory Well area, Everard Park Station, 27°S 132.7°E, 0 5 Nov 1970 - 0 5 Nov 1970, G. F. Gross, 23 (AMNH_PBI 0 0 0 38828, AMNH_PBI 00038829), 3Ƥ (AMNH_PBI 00038830-AMNH_PBI 00038832) (SAMA). Western Australia: 81 km E of Norseman, 32.07347°S 122.6166°E, 600 m, 23 Oct 1996, Schuh and Cassis, Coopernookia strophiolata (F.Muell.) Carolin (Goodeniaceae), det. PERTH staff PERTH 0 5054923, 103 (AMNH_PBI 0 0 0 16179 through AMNH_PBI 00016188), 10Ƥ (AMNH_PBI 0 0 0 16189 through AMNH_PBI 00016198) (AM), 1133 (AMNH_PBI 0 0 0 0 3246 through AMNH_PBI 0 0 0 0 3260, AMNH_PBI 0 0 0 0 3292 through AMNH_PBI 0 0 0 0 3300, AMNH_PBI 0 0 0 0 3473 through AMNH_PBI 00003561), 237Ƥ (AMNH_PBI 0 0 0 0 3261 through AMNH_PBI 0 0 0 0 3291, AMNH_PBI 0 0 0 0 3301 through AMNH_PBI 0 0 0 0 3327, AMNH_PBI 0 0 0 0 3562 through AMNH_PBI 00003740) (AMNH), 183 (AMNH_PBI 0 0 0 0 3741 through AMNH_PBI 00003758), 24Ƥ (AMNH_PBI 0 0 0 0 3759 through AMNH_PBI 00003782) (UNSW), 93 (AMNH_PBI 0 0 0 30285 through AMNH_PBI 00030293), 10Ƥ (AMNH_PBI 0 0 0 30294 through AMNH_PBI 00030303) (WAMP).
description: Published as part of Tatarnic, Nikolai J., 2009, Dampierella and Goodeniaphila: two new genera and three new species of Halticini from Australia, with a species key to the Halticini of Australia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae), pp. 43-60 in Zootaxa 2105 on page 53, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.187769