Ochterus alticola Baehr, 1990

Kment, Petr, Carapezza, Attilio & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2020, Taxonomic catalogue of the family Ochteridae with description of Ochterus papaceki sp. nov. from Socotra Island and Tanzania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1), pp. 23-64 : 32-33

Ochterus alticola Baehr, 1990

Ochterus alticola Baehr, 1990b: 451 , 453, 455–459, 461, 473 (key to species, description, illustrations). HOLOTYPE:, Papua New Guinea: ʻMafula, 4000 ft. [= 1219 m a.s.l.]’ (BMNH).

Ochterus alticola : CHEN et al. (2005): 413 (checklist).

Distribution. Australian Region: Papua New Guinea ( BAEHR 1990b).

Ochterus americanus ( Uhler, 1876)

Pelogonus americanus Uhler, 1876: 335 –336 (original description). SYNTYPES: USA: ‘ Texas, Illinois, Eastern Massachusetts, Pennsylvania’ (USNM).

Pelogonus americatus (incorrect subsequent spelling): SNOW (1906): 180 (distribution).

Ochterus americanus : TORRE BUENO (1906):50 (list); KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO (1909): 179 (catalogue); BARBER (1913): 213 (key to species); VAN DUZEE (1917): 476 (catalogue); HUNGERFORD (1919): 51, 53–54, pl.III: fig. 9 (key to species, original description repeated); BLATCHLEY (1926): 1020 –1021 (key to species, redescription, illustration); SCHELL (1943a): 32, 35 (key to species, illustration); SCHELL (1943b): 42 –43 (original description repeated, differential diagnosis); DRAKE (1952): 74 (checklist); CHAPMAN (1958): 119 (key to species); WILSON (1958): 154 (key to species); BOBB (1974): 17, 20 (key to species); BENNETT & COOK (1981): 35 (diagnosis, illustrations); POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS (1988a): 542 (catalogue); EPLER (2006): 12.3–12.4 (key to species, illustrations); HECKMAN (2011): 461 (key to species, illustration); HOFFMAN (2012): 58 –59 (illustration, distribution); POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS (2016):16, 24–26 (key to species, diagnosis, illustrations).

Ochterus americanum (incorrect subsequent spelling): BARBER (1913): 215.

Distribution. Nearctic Region: Canada: Ontario ( MAW et al. 2000); USA:? Arizona ( SNOW 1906, KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909, BLATCHLEY 1926, POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 1988a), Florida ( BARBER 1914, BLATCHLEY 1926,? CHAPMAN 1958, POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Georgia (POLHEMUS &

POLHEMUS 2016), Illinois ( UHLER 1876; KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909; BLATCHLEY 1926; SCHELL 1943b; DRAKE 1952; POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 1988a, 2016; TINERELLA et al. 2009), Iowa ( DRAKE 1952), Kansas ( HUNGERFORD & BEAMER 1925; BLATCHLEY 1926; POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 1988a, 2016), Louisiana ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 1988a, 2016), Maryland ( KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909; DRAKE 1952; POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 1988a, 2016), Massachusetts ( UHLER 1876, KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909, BLATCHLEY 1926, JOHNSON 1930, DRAKE 1952, POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 1988a), Minnesota ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Mississippi ( SCHELL 1943b, DRAKE 1952, WILSON 1958, POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 1988a), Missouri ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 1988a, 2016; EPLER 2006), Nebraska ( KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909; BLATCHLEY 1926; SCHELL 1943b; DRAKE 1952; POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 1988a, 2016), New Jersey ( SMITH 1890; TORRE BUENO 1905, 1908; KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909; BLATCHLEY 1926; CHAPMAN 1959; POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 1988a, 2016), New York ( TORRE BUENO 1905, 1908; KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909; BLATCHLEY 1926; LEONARD 1928; SCHELL 1943b; POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 1988a), North Carolina ( TORRE BUENO & BRIMLEY 1907; KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909; POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 1988a, 2016), South Carolina ( EPLER 2006), Pennsylvania ( UHLER 1876, WIRTNER 1904, KIRKALDY &

TORRE BUENO 1909, POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 1988a), Texas ( UHLER 1876, KIRKALDY & TORRE BUENO 1909, BLATCHLEY 1926, POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 1988a), Virginia ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 1988 a, HOFFMAN 2012).

Notes. According to T. Henry (pers. comm.), the USNM collection contains four of what appear to be syntypes of P. americanus Uhler : 1 ♀ and one broken specimen (abdomen missing) from ‘Mass.’; 1 from ‘N. Ill.’; and 1 ♀ from ‘Dedham, Mass, Apr. 30, 65, nr water,’ as mentioned in the original description.

UHLER (1876) included also a specimen from Cuba, writing that: ‘has the spots of the costal margin of the hemelytra almost obsolete; but it agrees with the United States from in all other respects’. It was listed from Cuba also by BLATCHLEY (1926) and HECKMAN (2011), but DRAKE (1952) and later Cuban authors ( ALAYO 1971, 1974; MUÑOZ RIVIAUX et al. 2010a,b; NARANJO et al. 2010) did not confirm its presence in that island.

According to POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS (1988a) records from Florida by Drake and from South Carolina ( ROBACK 1958) require confirmation; the Florida specimens determined by Drake as O. americanus and reexamined by POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS (1988a) were actually O. banksi . The South Carolina distribution was confirmed by EPLER (2006).