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Northern Distribution of Ambrysus Mormon Montandon (Heteroptera: Naucoridae) Western North American Naturalist Volume 74 Number 4 Article 13 3-30-2015 Northern distribution of Ambrysus mormon Montandon (Heteroptera: naucoridae) Aaron Clark Wheatland, WY, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/wnan Part of the Anatomy Commons, Botany Commons, Physiology Commons, and the Zoology Commons Recommended Citation Clark, Aaron (2015) "Northern distribution of Ambrysus mormon Montandon (Heteroptera: naucoridae)," Western North American Naturalist: Vol. 74 : No. 4 , Article 13. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/wnan/vol74/iss4/13 This Note is brought to you for free and open access by the Western North American Naturalist Publications at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Western North American Naturalist by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Western North American Naturalist 74(4), © 2014, pp. 478–481 NORTHERN DISTRIBUTION OF AMBRYSUS MORMON MONTANDON (HETEROPTERA: NAUCORIDAE) Aaron Clark1 ABSTRACT.—The northern portion of the range of Ambrysus mormon is redescribed based on collection records from national and state biomonitoring databases and other sources. The northern range limit of this species includes the Kla- math River drainage along the California–Oregon border; the Middle Snake River drainage in eastern Oregon; southern and central Idaho; all of Montana except the northwest corner; North Dakota and South Dakota, west of the Missouri River; and Nebraska, north of the Platte River and west to the Missouri River. RESUMEN.—El rango norte de Ambrysus mormon es re-descrito con base a records de colecta de bases de datos de biomonitoreo nacionales y estatales, y de otras fuentes. El limite norte de esta especie incluye la frontera norte entre California y Oregon en el drenaje del rio Klamath; el drenaje del Rio Snake en el Este de Oregon; todo el sur y centro del estado de Idaho; todo el estado de Montana excluyendo el noroeste; Los estados de North y South Dakota al oeste del rio Missouri; el estado de Nebraska al norte del rio Platte y al oeste del rio Missouri. Naucorid or creeping water bugs are dis- across southern Montana between Yellowstone tributed worldwide, with the richest diver - National Park in northwestern Wyoming and sity in tropical regions (Schuh and Slater the Black Hills of southwestern South Dakota 1995). The genus Ambrysus Stål is restricted to (Fig. 1) and suggested that the species’ northern the Western Hemisphere from Argentina extent may be temperature limited. Records to the northern Rocky Mountains of North north of La River’s line were compiled by America. In North America, species diversity Roemhild (1978), who believed the species is highest in Mexico and from Texas to Cali - occurred across Montana (Roemhild 1986), fornia in the southwestern United States but Polhemus and Polhemus (1988) did not (Polhemus and Polhemus 1988). Ambrysus include Montana among recorded states. Sites mormon (Montandon 1909) is the most wide- and Willig (2000) incorporated all of southern spread member of the genus and the only Idaho and most of Oregon in their range map, species known to occur in the western United but they excluded all of Montana and north States north of latitude 40° N. Three sub- central and northeastern Wyoming. Sites and species are recognized: the widespread nomi- Willig (2000) were the first to map a narrow nate form and 2 additional taxa from thermally eastern extension of the range extending heated waters in Idaho (A. m. minor La Rivers from eastern Wyoming through northern 1963) and Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming Nebraska (Fig. 1). First records of A. mormon (A. m. heidemanni Montandon 1910). Sites and from southwestern North Dakota were pub- Willig (2000) indicated close morphometric lished by Tinerella and DeLorme (2005); these proximity of A. m. minor and A. m. heidemanni records were northeast of all previous records with A. m. mormon and questioned subspe- for the species. cific recognition. Since the 1990s, Clean Water Act Section In much of the literature, either southern 106 funding has been used by state govern- Montana or northern Wyoming is considered ments and other jurisdictions to conduct macro - the northern limit of the species’ range. invertebrate monitoring to describe the status Usinger (1941) noted that A. mormon is widely of the nation’s waterways and identify wide- distributed in the western United States as spread concerns. In western states, Ambry- far north as northern California and Wyoming. sus presence has been recorded from sam- La Rivers (1951) mapped the northern limit pling sites in all states that encompass the 1Box 249, Wheatland, WY 82201. E-mail: [email protected] 478 2014] NOTES 479 E E E E X EE E E E E E E E E E EE E E E E E E E E E EE E E E EE E EEEE EE E EEEE EE EE E EEE E E E EEE E E EE E E E E E E E E E E EE EE E E E E EE E ! ! E! EE EEEEE E EE ! E ! E E ! E E E ! EE EE E E ! E E E E E E E ! E E EEE ! E EE E EE E EEEE E E ! 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Hydrologic units (8th order) occupied by Ambrysus mormon north of latitude 40°N. northern portion of the range of A. mormon. and Assessment of Freshwater Ecosystems Macroinvertebrate databases across the north- and National Aquatic Monitoring Center ern range of A. mormon (California, Oregon, database maintained by Utah State University Nevada, Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, (http://www.usu.edu/buglab/); and the Global North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska) Biodiversity Information Facility (http://www contain over 800 records of occurrence for .gbif.org/). The Nevada Division of Environ- either A. mormon or the genus Ambrysus. mental Protection, Oregon Department of These records, combined with records from Environmental Quality, Idaho Department the literature, were utilized to redescribe the of Environmental Quality, Wyoming Depart- northern extent of the range for A. mormon ment of Environmental Quality, Montana and extend the known range of the species Natural Heritage Program, North Dakota De - into states not recorded in the Catalog of partment of Health, Nebraska Department of North American Heteroptera (Henry and Environmental Quality, and Colorado Water Froeschner 1988). The records are given so Quality Control Commission queried their that they will be available before the next databases and provided records of occur- revision of that work. rence. South Dakota records were retrieved Records of occurrence were queried from from STORET. databases maintained by the U.S. Environ- All observations of the genus Ambrysus or mental Protection Agency STORET (http:// the identified species A. mormon were in - ofmpub.epa.gov/storpubl/dw_pages.query cluded in the analysis. Across the northern criteria); U.S. Geological Survey BioData portion of the range (north of 40° N), speci- Retrieval System (https://aquatic.biodata.usgs mens identified only to genus in the databases .gov); the joint Western Center for Monitoring refer to A. mormon, which is the only species 480 WESTERN NORTH AMERICAN NATURALIST [Volume 74 of Ambrysus known to occur in this region Health and by Tinerella and DeLorme (2005). (La Rivers 1951, Polhemus and Polhemus The STORET record indicates that the source 1988). Figure 1 shows the location of records of the record is the EPA’s National Aquatic of A. mormon contained in the databases Resource Survey. Attempts to locate a voucher north of latitude 40° N. Eighth-order hydro- from this location were unsuccessful. It is logic units (determined from the USGS Water- unlikely that this record is correct, and it has shed Boundary Dataset) within the range are been removed from the data used to describe shown as occupied. the northern range of A. mormon. The species’ range extends significantly The distributions of most species of aquatic north and east of the few range descriptions and semiaquatic Heteroptera are poorly known. found in the literature. Ambrysus mormon is Use of “nontraditional” data sources, such as the only naucorid found in northern Cali - those reported here, may prove valuable in fornia (Polhemus 1979), and records exist for future updates of the Catalog of Heteroptera many of the state’s northern hydrologic units and other biogeographical descriptions. (HUs). In Oregon, A. mormon appears re - stricted to areas along the California–Nevada Assistance was provided by myriad state border and the Columbia Plateau. Ambrysus regulatory agency personnel who kindly queried mormon is currently unknown from the Coast their databases (sometimes several times) for Range of Oregon but is present along the records.
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