# Chinamiris

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{{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](/source/Chinamiris_muehlenbeckiae)''
|taxon = Chinamiris
|authority = Woodward, 1950
|type_species= ''[Chinamiris muehlenbeckiae](/source/Chinamiris_muehlenbeckiae)''
|type_species_authority=Woodward, 1950
}}

'''''Chinamiris''''' is a genus of leaf bugs belonging to the order [Hemiptera](/source/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.<!--content is available under a CC-BY license--><ref name="Original"/>}}

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

==Taxonomy==

Woodward described the genus in 1950, naming ''[C. muehlenbeckiae](/source/Chinamiris_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](/source/Jos%C3%A9_C%C3%A2ndido_de_Melo_Carvalho) revised the genus, adding 29 new species and recombining ''[C. laticinctus](/source/Chinamiris_laticinctus)'', originally described as ''Capsus laticinctus'' by [Francis Walker](/source/Francis_Walker_(entomologist)) in 1873.<ref name="EylesCarvalho">{{cite Q|Q54585638}}</ref>

Eyles and Carvalho place the genus in the tribe [Mirini](/source/Mirini).<ref name="EylesCarvalho"/>

==Ecology==

The species lives primarily on host plants native to New Zealand, including members of ''[Carmichaelia](/source/Carmichaelia)'', ''[Coprosma](/source/Coprosma)'', ''[Olearia](/source/Olearia)'' and ''[Muehlenbeckia](/source/Muehlenbeckia)''.<ref name="EylesCarvalho"/> ''Chinamiris fascinans'' has been found in association with [mānuka](/source/m%C4%81nuka) 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](/source/Chatham_Islands).<ref name="GBIF"/>

==Species==

The following species are recognised by [GBIF](/source/GBIF):<ref name="GBIF"/>

* ''[Chinamiris acutospinosus](/source/Chinamiris_acutospinosus)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris aurantiacus](/source/Chinamiris_aurantiacus)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris brachycerus](/source/Chinamiris_brachycerus)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris citrinus](/source/Chinamiris_citrinus)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris cumberi](/source/Chinamiris_cumberi)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris daviesi](/source/Chinamiris_daviesi)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris dracophylloides](/source/Chinamiris_dracophylloides)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris elongatus](/source/Chinamiris_elongatus)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris fascinans](/source/Chinamiris_fascinans)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris guttatus](/source/Chinamiris_guttatus)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris hamus](/source/Chinamiris_hamus)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris indeclivis](/source/Chinamiris_indeclivis)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris juvans](/source/Chinamiris_juvans)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris laticinctus](/source/Chinamiris_laticinctus)'' {{small|(Walker, 1873)}}
* ''[Chinamiris marmoratus](/source/Chinamiris_marmoratus)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris minutus](/source/Chinamiris_minutus)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris muehlenbeckiae](/source/Chinamiris_muehlenbeckiae)'' {{small|Woodward, 1950}}
* ''[Chinamiris niculatus](/source/Chinamiris_niculatus)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris nigrifrons](/source/Chinamiris_nigrifrons)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris opacus](/source/Chinamiris_opacus)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris ovatus](/source/Chinamiris_ovatus)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris punctatus](/source/Chinamiris_punctatus)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris quadratus](/source/Chinamiris_quadratus)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris rufescens](/source/Chinamiris_rufescens)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris secundus](/source/Chinamiris_secundus)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris testaceus](/source/Chinamiris_testaceus)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris unicolor](/source/Chinamiris_unicolor)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris virescens](/source/Chinamiris_virescens)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris viridicans](/source/Chinamiris_viridicans)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris whakapapae](/source/Chinamiris_whakapapae)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}
* ''[Chinamiris zygotus](/source/Chinamiris_zygotus)'' {{small|Eyles & Carvalho, 1991}}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Chinamiris aurantiacus 12178426.jpg|''[C. aurantiacus](/source/Chinamiris_aurantiacus)'' on the stem of ''[Myoporum laetum](/source/Myoporum_laetum)''
Chinamiris aurantiacus 3774484.jpg|''[C. aurantiacus](/source/Chinamiris_aurantiacus)''
Chinamiris cumberi.jpg|''[C. cumberi](/source/Chinamiris_cumberi)''
Chinamiris elongatus 3785594.jpg|''[C. elongatus](/source/Chinamiris_elongatus)''
Chinamiris indeclivis 3703421.jpg|''[C. indeclivis](/source/Chinamiris_indeclivis)''
Chinamiris unicolor 3705531.jpg|''[C. unicolor](/source/Chinamiris_unicolor)''
</gallery>

==References==
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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

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