Review of North American Chlamydatus Curtis Species, with New Synonymy and the Description of Two New Species (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae)
Author
SCHUH, RANDALL T.
Author
SCHWARTZ, MICHAEL D.
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0003-0082
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Chlamydatus ruficornis
Knight, 1959: 424
(n.sp.).
DIAGNOSIS: Distinguished from all other
Chlamydatus
spp.
by the following combination of characters: the slate gray coloration, the red appendages, the fusiform antennal segment 2, the frequent brachyptery (fig. 2) with the males rarely being macropterous, and the entirely dull vertex and face.
HOSTS: None recorded.
DISTRIBUTION: Plains region of North America.
DISCUSSION:
Knight (1959)
and
Kelton (1965)
treated
C. ruficornis
as always brachypterous with truncate hemelytra. We have examined a male specimen from
Colorado
that is fully macropterous (fig. 2); it was taken with a series of brachypterous females on prostrate vegetation in a waste area. Macropterous males are now known from
Alberta
.
SPECIMENS EXAMINED:
Holotype
: male: ‘‘
Ames
,
Iowa
,
VII221940
,
H. H. Knight’
’; deposited in the
National Museum of Natural History
,
Washington
, D.C.
Additional specimens:
CANADA
:
Alberta
:
Irvine
,
May 23, 1952
,
A. R. Brooks
, 13 (
CNC
)
.
Saskatchewan
:
Saskatchewan Landing
,
June 22, 1982
,
G. G. E. Scudder
,
2♀
(
UBC
)
.
Val Marie
,
May 11, 1965
,
A. R. Brooks
, 13 (
CNC
)
.
USA
:
Colorado
:
Albert Co.
:
E of Kiowa on Rt
86,
West Bijou Creek
,
1810 m
,
May 20, 1978
,
R. T. Schuh
and
J. T. Polhemus
, 83,
19♀
(
AMNH
)
.
Iowa
:
Story Co.
:
Ames
,
July 22, 1930
,
H. H. Knight
,
paratypes
, 23,
1♀
(
CNC
,
USNM
)
.
New Mexico
:
Torrance Co.
:
Estancia
,
June 24, 1940
,
D. E. Hardy
, 13 (
KU
)
.