Proctacanthus rodecki James

Proctacanthus rodecki James, 1933: 2 .

Recognition characters: Reddish brown to black species; length 25–42 mm; mystax straw white; thorax brownish gray pollinose with two dark brown stripes laterally; scutellar setae white; scutellar bristles white or at most with two or three black ones intermixed; wings with brownish aspect; abdomen brown pollinose, setae and bristles on first three abdominal segments white with only a few black lateral bristles on the first segment; legs brown, femora black anteriorly.

Distribution: CONVERSE: Douglas, 15 Aug. 1945 (REP). PLATTE: Dwyer, 20 Aug. 1959 (RJL). Wheatland, 6 July 1964 (FRH). WASHAKIE: Worland, 1 Aug. 1911 (LB-UN). Recorded from Wyoming by: Lavigne & Pfadt (1966) (grasshopper predator).

Habitat: Wheatgrass-needlegrass shrub steppe shrub and grassland, and grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass grassland vegetation types. Open range, short- to mid-grass plains.

Ethology: Nothing known.

Prey: COLEOPTERA, DIPTERA, HEMIPTERA (Heteroptera), ORTHOPTERA (see Lavigne & Pfadt 1966; Lavigne et al. 1994).