Chinamiris

{{Short description|Genus of insects}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=September 2025}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Chinamiris muehlenbeckiae AMNZ21719.jpg |image_caption = ''Chinamiris muehlenbeckiae'' |taxon = Chinamiris |authority = Woodward, 1950 |type_species= ''Chinamiris muehlenbeckiae'' |type_species_authority=Woodward, 1950 }}

'''''Chinamiris''''' is a genus of leaf bugs belonging to the order Hemiptera.<ref name="GBIF">{{Cite GBIF|id=3265477|taxon=''Chinamiris'' Woodward, 1950|access-date=22 September 2025|mode=cs1}}</ref> The genus is endemic to New Zealand, and was first described by Thomas E. Woodward in 1950.<ref name="Original">{{cite Q|Q58676700}}</ref>

==Description==

Woodward described the genus as follows: {{blockquote|Body oval, dorsally with a covering of pale, deciduous pubescence. Head strongly declivous in front; eyes contiguous with and exserted beyond anterior margin of pronotum; vertex with complete transverse carina between eyes; antennae rather slender, with the first segment about as long as head and the second segment at least twice as long as first; rostrum reaching hind coxae, Pronotum shortly trapeziform, with prominent anterior collar; calli well developed; sides sinuate; base shallowly emarginate, exposing mesoscutum; disc without punctures but distinctly transversely rugose. Ostiolar peritreme large. Cuneus and membrane deflected, the latter mottled and with two cells, Posterior femora incrassated; tibiae with dark spines.<ref name="Original"/>}}

The genus can be distinguished from ''Pocciloscytus'' due to the form of the pronotum.<ref name="Original"/>

==Taxonomy==

Woodward described the genus in 1950, naming ''C. muehlenbeckiae'', which he described in the same paper, as the type species of the genus.<ref name="Original"/> 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.<ref name="EylesCarvalho">{{cite Q|Q54585638}}</ref>

Eyles and Carvalho place the genus in the tribe Mirini.<ref name="EylesCarvalho"/>

==Ecology==

The species lives primarily on host plants native to New Zealand, including members of ''Carmichaelia'', ''Coprosma'', ''Olearia'' and ''Muehlenbeckia''.<ref name="EylesCarvalho"/> ''Chinamiris fascinans'' has been found in association with mānuka bushes.<ref>{{cite Q|Q54568805}}</ref>

==Distribution==

The genus is endemic to New Zealand,<ref name="Original"/> found on the main islands of New Zealand and the Chatham Islands.<ref name="GBIF"/>

==Species==

The following species are recognised by GBIF:<ref name="GBIF"/>

* ''Chinamiris acutospinosus'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris aurantiacus'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris brachycerus'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris citrinus'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris cumberi'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris daviesi'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris dracophylloides'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris elongatus'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris fascinans'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris guttatus'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris hamus'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris indeclivis'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris juvans'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris laticinctus'' {{small|(Walker, 1873)}} * ''Chinamiris marmoratus'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris minutus'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris muehlenbeckiae'' {{small|Woodward, 1950}} * ''Chinamiris niculatus'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris nigrifrons'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris opacus'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris ovatus'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris punctatus'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris quadratus'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris rufescens'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris secundus'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris testaceus'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris unicolor'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris virescens'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris viridicans'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris whakapapae'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}} * ''Chinamiris zygotus'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}

==Gallery== <gallery> Chinamiris aurantiacus 12178426.jpg|''C. aurantiacus'' on the stem of ''Myoporum laetum'' Chinamiris aurantiacus 3774484.jpg|''C. aurantiacus'' Chinamiris cumberi.jpg|''C. cumberi'' Chinamiris elongatus 3785594.jpg|''C. elongatus'' Chinamiris indeclivis 3703421.jpg|''C. indeclivis'' Chinamiris unicolor 3705531.jpg|''C. unicolor'' </gallery>

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Endemic insects of New Zealand Category:Hemiptera of New Zealand Category:Miridae genera Category:Mirini Category:Taxa named by Thomas E. Woodward Category:Taxa described in 1950