Chinamiris muehlenbeckiae
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| Chinamiris muehlenbeckiae | |
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| Holotype of Chinamiris muehlenbeckiae | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Miridae |
| Genus: | Chinamiris |
| Species: | C. muehlenbeckiae |
| Binomial name | |
| Chinamiris muehlenbeckiae Woodward, 1950 | |
Chinamiris muehlenbeckiae is a species of leaf bugs belonging to the order Hemiptera.[1] The species is endemic to New Zealand, and was first described by Thomas E. Woodward in 1950.[2] It primarily lives on the native New Zealand species Muehlenbeckia australis.
The species has a length of 4.4 mm (0.17 in) and is broadly oval. The head, pronotum, scutellum, and hemelytra are clothed with a mixture of short, fine, recumbent, dark hairs and pale, deciduous, scale-like hairs, except on the species' membrane . The species has a large and pale ostiolar peritreme. C. muehlenbeckiae is dark brown with black or brownish black mottlings.[2]
It can be distinguished from other members of the genus by the horn-like projection on the left side of the species' pygophore, its wide tapering nronotal carina, oval form, small size and brown colour.[3]
Taxonomy
Woodward described the species in 1950 as the type species of the genus Chinamiris, which he described in the same paper.[2] The genus was monotypic for over 40 years, in 1991 entomologists Alan C. Eyles and José Cândido de Melo Carvalho revised the genus, adding 30 species to the genus.[3] The holotype was collected from Muehlenbeckia australis near Foxton in January 1950, and is held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.[4]