New Zealand Journal of Zoology abstracts

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Tinginotum Kirkaldy in New Zealand and Australia: a shared new species, and a new species of Tinginotopsis Poppius from Norfolk Island (Hemiptera: Miridae)

A. C. EYLES^*

30 Mahana Road
Paraparaumu Beach, New Zealand

^*Research Associate, New Zealand Arthropod  Collection, Landcare Research, Auckland.

Abstract  Tinginotum minutum n. sp. from New Zealand and Australia, and Tinginotopsis tuberculatus n. sp. from Norfolk Island, are described and illustrated. The female genitalia for both genera are described and illustrated for the first time. The apex of the second gonapophysis in both genera differs from those previously illustrated for other species of Miridae. A contribution is made to defining the limits of the two genera, and to distinguishing between them. The known distribution of Tinginotum knowlesi (Kirkaldy, 1908) and Tinginotopsis camelus Poppius, 1915 is extended, and a host plant (Artocarpus altilis) for the former is recorded.

Keywords  Hemiptera; Miridae; Mirinae; Mirini; Tinginotum; Tinginotopsis; new species; Australia; New Zealand; Norfolk Island

Z99028
Received 26 July 1999; accepted 1 December 1999

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