Ablautus mimus mimus Osten-Sacken

Ablautus mimus Osten-Sacken, 1877: 290 .

Recognition characters: Brownish gray species; length 7–10 mm; mystax mostly white, a few black setae below; thorax gray; scutellar bristles on edge in row, long and erect, brownish yellow; wings hyaline, veins black; legs black with dense, long recumbent white setae and long, white erect bristles, claws without pulvilli.

Distribution: FREMONT: Guernsey; 16 km S of Shoshoni, 13 April–5 May (RJL). PLATTE: Wheatland, 13 April–5 May (RJL). WASHAKIE: Worland (all RJL), 13 April–5 May (RJL).

Habitat: Sagebrush steppe and wheatgrass-needlegrass shrub steppe shrub and grassland, and grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass grassland vegetation types. Rangeland.

Ethology: Nothing known.

Prey: None known.