Revision Of New World Plagiognathus Fieber, With Comments On The Palearctic Fauna And The Description Of A New Genus (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae) Author SCHUH, RANDALL T. text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2001 2001-11-08 2001 266 1 267 http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0090%282001%29266%3C0001%3ARONWPF%3E2.0.CO%3B2 journal article 10.1206/0003-0090(2001)266<0001:RONWPF>2.0.CO;2 0003-0090 5381844 Sthenarus viticola Johnston, 1935: 16 (n. sp.). DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by the small size, orange coloration (fig. 14) of dorsum tinged with brown, and entirely pale antennae and tibiae. Similar in coloration of dorsum to cornicola and delicatus , but distinguished from them by the smaller size, the entirely pale antennae, and the tibial spines without dark spots at bases. REDESCRIPTION: Male: Small, delicate; total length 2.68–2.98, length apex clypeus–cuneal fracture 2.68–2.98, width across pronotum 0.97–1.02. COLORATION (fig. 14): Coloration of dorsum very weakly mottled, varying from pale greenish to orange or golden brown, the last being the most common; calli almost always darker than remain­ der of pronotum; antennae entirely pale (fig. 19); clypeus usually castaneous, sometimes much of face below antennal insertions also castaneous; labium pale except at base and apex; venter brown, including metathoracic scent­gland evaporatory area; legs almost entirely pale, including coxae; femora often with some dark spots; tibiae pale over entire length; tibial spines without dark spots at bases. SURFACE AND VESTITURE: Dorsum weakly granular, smooth, moderately shining. Vestiture of dorsum composed of recumbent, pale, golden, shining, simple setae. STRUCTURE: Body elongate ovoid, hemelytra declivent laterally, dorsum noticeably convex; pronotum declivent anteriorly; frons nearly straight across between eyes, head strongly declivent, clypeus never visible from above; anteocular distance 1.5 times diameter of antennal segment 1; head projecting below eye by diameter of antennal segment 1; labium reaching to apex of hind coxae. GENITALIA (fig. 33): Body of vesica relatively stout, very strongly curving, Ushaped, base of vesica falling somewhat below level of secondary gonopore; posterior apical spine longer, weakly curving and forming a weak angle relative to body of vesica, anterior spine much longer than posterior, curving toward apex, and nearly perpendicular to body of vesica; vesical flange moderately developed, reaching to about base of secondary gonopore. Female: Very similar to male in coloration but body more strongly ovoid in outline. Total length 2.63–2.85, length apex clypeus–cuneal fracture 1.81–1.92, width across pronotum 0.97–1.02. HOSTS: Vitis spp. (Vitacae) . DISTRIBUTION: Known from widely scattered localities in the eastern United States , from Pennsylvania and Illinois in the north to Mississippi and Texas in the south. DISCUSSION: This species was described in Sthenarus and has been maintained there by subsequent authors; my concept of it is based on the examination of a single paratype and other material that I consider to be authoritatively identified. Examination of the male genitalia clearly indicates that viticola is a Plagiognathus species , however. SPECIMENS EXAMINED: USA .— Illinois : Hardin Co.: Elizabethtown, June 22, 1932 , Ross, Dozier, and Park, 1♀ (USNM). Mississippi : Alcorn Co.: Corinth, May 25, 1931 , H. G. Johnston, paratype : 13 (USNM). Pennsylvania : Dauphin Co.: near Clark’s Ferry, June 8, 1983 , A. G. Wheeler, Jr., Vitis labrusca (Vitaceae) , 53, 3♀ (PDA). Nyes and Willoughby Roads, May 25, 1977 – June 10, 1975 , T. J. Henry, Vitis sp. (Vitaceae) , 43, 12♀ (PDA). Tennessee : McNairy Co.: E of Eastview on Rt 57, May 31, 1985 , A. G. Wheeler, Jr., Vitis sp. (Vitaceae) , 13, 1♀ (PDA). Texas : Brazos Co.: 3 mi NE of Edge, May 25, 1984 , T. L. Harrison, 13 (CNC). Travis Co.: Shelberg Tract near Cypress Creek arm of Lake Travis, May 8, 1994 , J. C. Schaffner, 1♀ (CNC).