Chinamiris
Chinamiris is a genus of leaf bugs belonging to the order Hemiptera. The genus is endemic to New Zealand, and was first described by Thomas E. Woodward in 1950.
Description
Woodward described the genus as follows:
The genus can be distinguished from Pocciloscytus due to the form of the pronotum.
Taxonomy
Woodward described the genus in 1950, naming C. muehlenbeckiae, which he described in the same paper, as the type species of the genus. A monotypic genus for over 40 years, in 1991 entomologists Alan C. Eyles and José Cândido de Melo Carvalho revised the genus, adding 29 new species and recombining C. laticinctus, originally described as Capsus laticinctus by Francis Walker in 1873.
Eyles and Carvalho place the genus in the tribe Mirini.
Ecology
The species lives primarily on host plants native to New Zealand, including members of Carmichaelia, Coprosma, Olearia and Muehlenbeckia. Chinamiris fascinans has been found in association with mānuka bushes.
Distribution
The genus is endemic to New Zealand, found on the main islands of New Zealand and the Chatham Islands.
Species
The following species are recognised by GBIF:Chinamiris acutospinosus Chinamiris aurantiacus Chinamiris brachycerus Chinamiris citrinus Chinamiris cumberi Chinamiris daviesi Chinamiris dracophylloides Chinamiris elongatus Chinamiris fascinans Chinamiris guttatus Chinamiris hamus Chinamiris indeclivis Chinamiris juvans Chinamiris laticinctus Chinamiris marmoratus Chinamiris minutus Chinamiris muehlenbeckiae Chinamiris niculatus Chinamiris nigrifrons Chinamiris opacus Chinamiris ovatus Chinamiris punctatus Chinamiris quadratus Chinamiris rufescens Chinamiris secundus Chinamiris testaceus Chinamiris unicolor Chinamiris virescens Chinamiris viridicans Chinamiris whakapapae