Twenty New Species of Plant-Bugs Named

Katrina Menard (Sam Noble Museum) recently described 20 new species of plant-bugs (Heteroptera: Miridae) from Papua New Guinea, Australia and the Solomon Islands. Menard’s co-authored work was published in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History in November 2011. 

Image: New species Ausejanus tiramisu Menard and Schuh from coastal Australia, on its host-plant Olearia axillaris