Great Basin Naturalist

Volume 39 Number 2 Article 10

6-30-1979

First record of spinosus in Idaho and Nevada (: )

Donald R. Brothers Boise , Idaho

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Recommended Citation Brothers, Donald R. (1979) "First record of Patapius spinosus in Idaho and Nevada (Hemiptera: Leptopodidae)," Great Basin Naturalist: Vol. 39 : No. 2 , Article 10. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/gbn/vol39/iss2/10

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Abstract.— The first record of Patapitis spinosus (Rossi) in Idaho and Nevada is reported, having previously been found in America onlv in California.

The family Leptopodidae is represented in however, is an intermittent stream which has America by a single introduced Eastern water for a few months during spring runoff. Hemisphere species, Patapius spinosus (Ros- Since P. spinosus has now been collected si). This species was first reported in America east of the Sierras in habitats common to in the United States by Usinger (1941) from a many parts of the Pacific Northwest and single specimen collected from Colusa Coim- Great Basin, it can be anticipated that addi- ty, California. Since that time, it has been tional collections of this will be made collected in a number of California counties in these areas. Collectors should watch for a in increasing numbers (Drake 1954). To my small (3-4 mm in length) saldidlike bug with knowledge, there are no published United long spines on much of its body, including

States records of P. spinosus occurring out- the eyes (Fig. 1). side of California. Recent collections of P. Idaho specimens of P. spinosus are depos- spinosus from Idaho and Nevada establish ited in the California Academy of Science, the first state record for this insect and repre- San Francisco, California; U.S. Natural Mu- sented an eastern extension of its known seum, Washington, D.C.; Brigham Young range. Collection records are as follows: University, Provo, Utah; University of Idaho,

Idaho: Gem Co., Pearl vicinity, T6N,R1E,S14, 4400', Moscow, Idaho; and Boise State University, IX-9-77, IX-14-77, IX-26-77, X-2-77 (D. R. Brothers) (G. Boise, Idaho. A. Shook), adults and nymphs; near Payette River, 12 miles E Emmett, T7N,R1E,S24, 2580', iV-14-78 (G. A. Acknowledgments Shook), adults. Nevada: Reno, 1971 (M. A. Bechtel). Appreciation is expressed to Dr. Jon L. Although Woodward et al. (1970) reported Herring of the U.S. National Museum for that leptopodids frequent the drier parts of confirming my identification of Idaho speci- rocks in streams, it appears that this species mens and allowing me to report the Nevada may not be restricted to that habitat. Usin- record, and to Dr. Charles W. Baker of Boise ger's specimen was found under a piece of State University for critically reading the fibrous tree protection material on the trunk manuscript. of an almond tree. Idaho specimens from the Payette River area were taken on the under- Literature Cited side of a board in a cottonwood (Populus) Drake, C. 1954. undescribed leptopodid from In- grove adjacent to the river. Adults and J. An dia (Hemiptera). Kansas Ent. Soc. 27:111-112. nymphs taken from the vicinity of Pearl were J. Usinger, R. L. 1941. A remarkable immigrant leptopo- found on the underside of cobble-sized rocks did in California. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. in a mine tailings dump in an area dominated 36:164-165. E., V. F. by sagebrush {Artemisia) and rabbitbrush 'Woodward, T. J. W. Evans, and Eastop. {Chrysothanums). The nearest known per- 1970. Hemiptera. p. 441. In: Commonwealth Sci- entific and Industrial Research Organization. manent water from this site is approximately 1970. The of Australia. Melbourne Uni- one mile to the west. Adjacent to the site. versity Press, Melbourne, xiii + 1029 pp.

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Fig. 1. Patapius spino.ms, dorsal view.