Pachystilicus hanhami ( Wickham, 1898 )

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Pachystilicus hanhami ( Wickham, 1898)

Fig. 4

Stilicus hanhami Wickham, 1898: 220 (original description, notes).

Pachystilicus hanhami – Casey 1905: 227 (redescription). — Blackwelder 1939: 107, 120; 1952: 285 (notes). — Poole & Gentili 1996: 370. — Webster 2016: 435. — Newton et al. 2001: 387 (comment on taxonomic status).

Diagnosis

Differs from P. quadriceps by shorter and slightly sparser setae covering body, longitudinal carina of basisternum less elevated. Additionally, the median emargination of posterior margin of male sternite VIII is shallower and narrower than in P. quadriceps , with the depth of emargination ca 1/5 of sternite length.

Type material

Holotype USA • ♂; “ Winnipeg Man. Hanham / Wickham Collection 1933 / Type No 50215 U.S.N.M / Stilicus hanhami Wick. ? Type of drawing [?] of description”; NMNH.

Additional studied material

CANADA – Alberta • 1 spec.; “[with ants] Banff. Alta. Aug. 20 ’15 Wheeler leg. / 00744589 ”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Calgary, Hwy 4, 2.IV.1981, with ants [ Myrmica sp. ] under stone, B+J Carr”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Calgary, Hwy 4, 7.VI.1964 with ants [ Myrmica sp. ] under stone, B+J Carr”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Calgary, Hwy 4, 23.X.1955 with ants [ Myrmica sp. ] under stone, B+J Carr”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Calgary, Hwy 4, 13.X.1955 with ants [ Myrmica sp. ] under stone, B+J Carr”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Calgary, Hwy 4, 25.IV.1953 with ants [ Myrmica sp. ] under stone, B+J Carr”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Calgary, Hwy 4, 8.V.1953 with ants [ Myrmica sp. ] under stone, B+J Carr”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Calgary, Hwy 4, 24.III.1956 with ants [ Myrmica sp. ] under stone, B+J Carr”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Banff , 17.IV.1955, with ants, B+J Carr”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Coleman , 26.VI.1961, B+J Carr”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Seebe , 14.X.1963, B+J Carr”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Canmore , 3.IV.1953, B+J Carr”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Canmore , 4.IV.1953, B+J Carr”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Ghost Dam , 22.III.1953, B+J Carr”; CNC . – Manitoba • 1 spec.; “ Winnipeg Man. Hanham / F. C. Bowditch Coll / Stilicus hanhami Wick / 00744583 ”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Winnipeg Man. Hanham / Stilicus hanhami Wickh. / 00744584 ”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Winnipeg Man. Hanham / ♀ / Fredrick Blanchard Collection / Stilicus hanhami Wickh. / 00744585 ”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Winnipeg Man. Hanham / Wickham Collection 1933 / Stilicus hanhami Wickh. ”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Winnipeg Man./ CASEY bequest 1925 / Pachystilicus hanhami Wick. ”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Winnipeg Man. Hanham / CASEY bequest 1925 / CASEY determination hanhami -2”; NMNH .

USA – Massachusetts • 1 spec.; “ Tyngs Mass. / ♂ / Fredrick Blanchard Collection / Stilicus quadriceps Lec. / 00744586 ”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Under stones / C.A. Frost. IV Sherborn 17-10 Mass / Stilicus ? apicalis Csy / C.A. Frost Collection 196200744590 ”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Frmghm ( Framingham? ) Mass Frost / H. C. Fall Collection / Stilicus hanhami / 00744532 ”; MCZ . – New Hampshire • 1 spec.; “ Franconia N.H. / Liebeck Coll. / H. C. Fall Collection / 00744582 ”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Franconia N.H. / with ants mas., blosson / Liebeck Coll. / H. C. Fall Collection / 00744581 ”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Plainfield N.H. Oct. 9.27. / F.C. Bowditch Coll / Stilicus / 00744588 ”; MCZ • 1 spec.; “ Plainfield N.H. Oct.9.27. / F.C. Bowditch Coll / Stilicus / 00744587 ”; MCZ . – Oklahoma • 1 spec.; “Oklahoma: Latimer Co., 5 Mi. W. Red oak, Oct. 1980 K. Stephen / Pachystilicus quadriceps Lec. ’ 84 det. L. E. Watrous”; TAMUIC • 1 spec.; “ Nev. Elko Co., Wildhorse Crossing St. Pk , R. Haswell 8.IX.15 / in ant nest under rock / Pachystilicus sp. det. R. Haswell 1922 / ex. Richard H. Haswell Collection, October 2008, TAMU Insect Collection”; TAMUIC .

Redescription

MEASUREMENTS. Body length: 4.5 mm; forebody length: 2.70–2.95 mm.

COLOURATION. Dark brown to yellow; head darker, legs and antennae reddish brown, elytra (except for base) light brown to yellow. Abdomen black, tip lighter in colour ( Fig. 4A–B ).

HEAD. As in generic description (HL: 0.9–1.0 mm; HW: 1.0– 1.1 mm), with antennomere 1 elongate, widest at tip; antennomeres 2–4 elongate; antennomere 5 weakly elongate; antennomeres 6–10 gradually becoming transverse; antennomere 11 elongate, 1.5× as long as antennomere 10. Mandible with three teeth on right and left mandible, but two outer teeth on right mandible much larger than others.

THORAX. As in generic description (pronotal size: PL: 0.8–0.9 mm; PW: 0.8–0.9 mm; elytra size: EL: 1.00– 1.05 mm; EW: 1.2 mm).

ABDOMEN. As in generic description; sternite III with short medial longitudinal keel.

Distribution

The species has previously been recorded from the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, and Saskatchewan and the US state of Oregon ( Newton 2018). New records include the following US states: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma.

Figures

Fig. 4. Pachystilicus hanhami (Wickham, 1898), habitus photographs and drawings of the apical abdominal sternite and genital structures. A. Habitus, holotype, ♂ (NMNH). B. Habitus, additional male specimen with darker colouration (NMNH). C. Male sternite VIII. D. Aedeagus, parameral view. E. Aedeagus, lateral view. Scale bars = 0.5 mm.