![]() (wild carrot, Queen Anne's lace) ( IL), and RWS from confraterna, Baranowski and Slater (1986) Plant associations where neither feeding nor presence of nymphs was reported include There also are reports ofįeeding on bird droppings ( Adler & Wheeler 1984, Belthoff & Ritchison 1991). In "mixed sex aggregations with adults observed feeding on sap through the bark" on 29 March 1978 in Austin, Texas (PLM/TPF). Other hosts from which nymphs and adults have been collected but feeding was not observed include (common ninebark) ( Yonke & Medler 1969 a, Wheeler and Hoebeke 1985). (riverbank grape) ( Yonke & Medler 1969 a), and (hickory) ( Froeschner 1942) and foliage and stems of In Florida, it has been found on the foliage of shrubs growing along margins of dense hammocks ( Blatchley 1926 asįeeds on several hosts including tender shoots of 298) and in dense tangles of herbage in damp locations ( Hussey 1922). It occurs frequently in open woods or woodland borders ( Froeschner 1942) on trees, shrubs, and weeds ( Blatchley 1926, Slater & Baranowski 1978, Baranowski & Slater 1986) along fence rows and woodland paths, edges of roadsides and thickets ( Blatchley 1926) on branches and twigs of bushes along borders of oak-woods ( Uhler 1876, p. Actual flight periods, based on flight trap data, have been reported as June into August for North Carolina ( McPherson & Weber 1981) and May into September for Illinois ( McPherson & Weber 1990). ![]() We here add mid-March into late November for Illinois (JEM, SJT) and April into August for Nebraska (JDB). ![]() ), April to October in Missouri ( Froeschner 1942) (expanded to November, RWS), April into October in southern Indiana ( Blatchley 1926), and June into September in Wisconsin ( Yonke and Medler 1969 a). Specimens have been collected from late April into mid-August in Virginia ( Hoffman 1975), every month of the year but mostly from March through June in Florida ( Blatchley 1926, Baranowski & Slater 1986 as Therefore, it is not surprising that more biological information has been published for this species than for the other three. It ranges from New England south to Florida and west through Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Oklahoma, and Louisiana to Colorado and Texas ( Blatchley 1926, Torre-Bueno 1941, Froeschner 1988). In America north of Mexico and is the only species that occurs in the northern states. This species has, by far, the broadest geographic range of the four species of AL, CO, CN, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NE, NJ, NY, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WIĭiscussion. The metafemora of both sexes are only slightly expanded distally and abdominal sternum 3 lacks the darkened area beneath each metacoxa.ĭistribution. This species can be recognized by the metatibial expansions, which are broadly dilated in the basal half and gradually narrowed toward the apex. On these bases, RJP here placesĭiagnosis. He also examined the pygophores and parameres at the edges of the range and could find no differences. Further plotting of body measurements of each specimen against its latitude showed a correlation of increasing body size with decreasing latitude. Rather, the variation shown in plots of the principal components appears to exhibit a latitudinal cline. RJP (unpublished data) measured body parts (12 measurements per specimen) of numerous specimens (> 1,000) of presumedįrom Florida, together with specimens of presumedįrom neighboring states and specimens from throughout both presumed distributions and found no separation or clustering of specimens using PCA (Principal Components Analysis). Acanthocephala (Metapodiessa) terminalis (Dallas)Īcanthocephala (Metapodius) terminalis: Stål, 1870
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