Orectoderus longicollis Uhler 1895
Creators: name: Wyniger, Denise
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Orectoderus
Orectoderus longicollis

description: Orectoderus longicollis Uhler
Figures 3, 5, 6, 11; map 1; tables 1, 2
Orectoderus longicollis Uhler, 1895: 47 (new species); Van Duzee, 1916b: 42 (list), 1917: 368 (catalog, distribution); Carvalho, 1958: 175 (catalog); Knight, 1968a: 313 (discussion); Knight, 1968b: 64 (distribution, figure of head and antenna, diagnosis); Polhemus, 1994: 130 (distribution, host).
TYPE MATERIAL (EXAMINED): Orectoderus longicollis: Holotype: Male: [USA: Colorado: Routt Co.: Steamboat Springs, 40.485°N 106.83111°W] Colo 1341 [Baker], Lupinus sp. (Fabaceae) (AMNH _PBI 00068904) (USNM).
DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by coloration of hemelytra with clavus almost entirely pale, brown only proximally (fig. 3); vesica strongly sclerotized with wide denticulate lobe (fig. 5); leπ paramere with anterior process rounded apically (fig. 6); female with small sclerotized spots beyond apex of sclerotized rings of dorsal labiate plate (fig. 11, arrow). Most similar to O. montanus in general aspect, vestiture, and vesica, but distinguished by claval coloration, length difference between anterior and posterior process of leπ paramere (fig. 6), inner surface of anterior process of leπ paramere without long seta as in O. montanus (fig. 6) and vesica with denticulate lobe, in lateral view, concave (fig. 5, arrow).
REDESCRIPTION: Male: Total length 6.00–6.66, length apex clypeus-cuneus fracture 4.46– 4.89, width across pronotum1.28–1.44. COLORATION: Pronotum black, slightly greyish; clavus pale, brown just proximally and with very narrow brownish band along claval commissure; corium brown with pale band parallel to claval suture reaching apex of clavus. SURFACE AND
VESTITURE: General aspect dull, rugose, and pubescent; pronotum and scutellum dull; dorsal surface clothed with pale setae; pronotum bearing fine, pale reclining setae shorter than diameter of first antennal segment. STRUCTURE: Labium reaching to mesocoxa. GENITALIA: Anterior process of leπ paramere without distinct long seta on inner surface (fig. 6); secondary gonopore with large denticulate lobe, in lateral view, concave (fig. 5, arrow).
Female: Total length 5.11–5.34, width across pronotum 0.91–1.09. COLORATION: Head, pronotum, mesoscutum, scutellum, and hemelytra greyish brown (fig. 3); ocher band along claval suture. SURFACE AND VESTITURE: General aspect dull with greyish appearance; head and pronotum dull; pronotum clothed with fine, golden, shiny setae shorter than diameter of first antennal segment. STRUCTURE: Second antennal segment just slightly inflated distally (fig. 3). GENITALIA: Sclerotized rings of dorsal labiate plate rounded basally and tapering apically; small sclerotized spots beyond apex of sclerotized rings of dorsal labiate plate; posterior wall with bifurcate interramal sclerites, rounded medially (fig. 11).
HOSTS: Symphoricarpos sp. (Caprifoliaceae), Lupinus sp. (Fabaceae), and Purshia tridentata (Rosaceae).
DISTRIBUTION: United States: California, Colorado, and Wyoming (map 1).
DISCUSSION: Uhler (1895) described this species from a single male from Steamboat Springs, collected by Baker on July 14. The specimen in the collection of the USNM labelled “Colo. 1341” fits Uhler’s (1895) indication. “Colo. 1341” is Baker’s code for “Steamboat Spring, Colorado ” (Tom Henry, personal commun.). Even though this specimen does not bear any type label, it is doubtless the holotype of O. longicollis.
Orectoderus longicollis is the only species within this genus with a pale clavus or, as Uhler (1895) specified it, with “clavus ivory white.”
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: USA: California: Siskiyou Co.: just S of Lava Beds National Monument on Medicine Lake Road, Mammoth Crater, 41.75333°N 121.50556°W, 1625 m, 26 Jun 1979, R.T. and Joe Schuh, Purshia tridentata (Rosaceae), 1♀ (00096889) (AMNH). Colorado: Clear Creek Co.: Mount Evans, 39.58056°N 105.59167°W, 3658 m, 14 Aug 1982, J.T. Polhemus, 2♀ (00064748, 00064749) (JTP). Douglas Co.: Waterton, 39.49361°N 105.08806°W, 07 Jul 1983, D.A. Polhemus, 2♀ (00064744, 00064745) (JTP). Routt Co.: Steamboat Springs, 40.485°N 106.83111°W, 2134 m, 23 Jul 1983, D.A. and J.T. Polhemus, Symphoricarpos sp. (Caprifoliaceae), 1♂ (00063511), 2♀ (00063516, 00063518) (JTP); 15 Jul 1964, H.H. Knight, 1♂ (00069328) (USNM); 23 Jul 1983, J.T. and D.A. Polhemus, Symphoricarpos sp. (Caprifoliaceae), 4♂ (00063675–00063676, 00064746–00064747), 5♀ (00063677, 00063773– 00063776) (JTP). Symphoricarpos sp. (Caprifoliaceae), 1♂ (00092757), 1♀ (00092758) (TAMU); 27 Jun 1982, J.T. and D.A. Polhemus, 1♂ (00063685) Symphoricarpos sp. (Caprifoliaceae), 4♀ (00063769– 00063772) (JTP); 01 Jul 1944, O.B., 2♂ (00074945, 00074946) (KU). Steamboat Springs, 40.485°N 106.83111°W, 2103 m, 11 Jul 1964, H.H. Knight, 2♂ (00068997, 00068998) (USNM); 15 Jul 1964, H.H. Knight, 2♂ (00096190, 00096191), 1♀ (00096192) (AMNH). Steamboat Springs Strawberry Park nr. Hot Springs, 40.485°N 106.83111°W, 24 Jul 1983, J.T. and D.A. Polhemus, Symphoricarpos sp. (Caprifoliaceae), 9♂ (00063509–00063510, 00063512–00063513, 00063678–00063682), 8♀ (00063514– 00063515, 00063517, 00063683–00063684, 00064741–00064743) (JTP). Wyoming: Park Co.: Yellowstone National Park, 44.76667°N 110.23333°W, 08 Aug 1927, H.H. Knight, 1♀ (00069368) (USNM). Teton Co.: Jackson Lake Village, Grand Teton National Park, 43.83333°N 110.7°W, 23 Jul 1971, G.C. Steyskal, 1♀ (00069367) (USNM).
description: Published as part of Wyniger, Denise, 2010, Resurrection of the Pronotocrepini Knight, with Revisions of the Nearctic Genera Orectoderus Uhler, Pronotocrepis Knight, and Teleorhinus Uhler, and Comments on the Palearctic Ethelastia Reuter (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae), pp. 1-68 in American Museum Novitates 2010 (3703) on pages 26-27, DOI: 10.1206/3703.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4565685