Sisyra vicaria (Walker)

Bowles, David E., 2006, Spongillaflies (Neuroptera: Sisyridae) of North America with a key to the larvae and adults, Zootaxa 1357, pp. 1-19 : 16-18

Sisyra vicaria (Walker)

Figures 7, 9 , 30–32

This species is closely related to and difficult to distinguish from S. nigra . The forewing usually has the R2 deeply forked and basal to junction of the Sc and R1 veins. The antennae have only 2–3 basal segments dark brown in color with the remaining segments yellow or rarely the basal third of the antennae are dark and apical two thirds paler in color. The vertex of the head is pale brown to yellow. The ectoprocts of the male terminalia are as long as wide in lateral view ( Fig. 30 ) and broadly C-shaped in dorsal view ( Fig. 31 ). The gonarcus complex has prominent parameres that are more than one-half as long as the ectoprocts. Female terminalia have tergite 9 broadly oval-shaped in lateral view and with anterior and posterior articulation ridges ( Fig. 32 ).

This species is widely distributed in the U.S. and Canada ( Parfin & Gurney 1956, Penny et al. 1997). New distributional records are reported here from Alabama, Arkansas, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio and Vermont in the United States. Given the distribution of S. vicaria in southern California, Arizona and Texas, this species likely occurs in northern Mexico as well, but it has not yet been collected there. Adults have been taken in January and April through October. This species is occasionally collected with C. areolaris and S. nigra where their ranges overlap.

Published and Supplemental State, County and Parish Records. CANADA. British Columbia: ( Currie 1904). Nova Scotia: ( Carpenter 1940). Ontario: ( Carpenter 1940).

Quebec: ( Carpenter 1940). UNITED STATES. Arizona: county unknown ( Parfin & Gurney 1956). California: Lake ( Grigarick 1975); Mendocino Co. (EMEC). Connecticut: county unknown ( Carpenter 1940); Fairfield, Litchfield, New London, Tolland, Windham ( PRC). District of Columbia: ( Carpenter 1940). Florida: Alachua, [Duval], Paradise Key ( Parfin & Gurney 1956). Georgia: county unknown ( Walker 1853); [Charlton, Whitfield, Wilkinson] ( Parfin & Gurney 1956), Thomas (FSCA), [Gordon] (INHS). Florida: county unknown ( Carpenter 1940), Leon (AMNH), Highlands, Liberty, Jackson, Marion, Okaloosa, Putnam, Sarasota, Suwannee (FSCA). Illinois: county unknown ( Carpenter 1940), Mason, [Alexander, Lake, DuPage, Vermilion] ( Parfin & Gurney 1956), Champaign, [Clark], Clay, [Cook], Iroquois, [Kankakee], Marion, Schuler, Union (INHS), [Pope] (MEM). Indiana: [Lake] ( Parfin & Gurney 1956), Steuben (INHS). Kansas: Hodgeman ( Parfin & Gurney 1956), Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Crawford, Douglas, Elk, Kiowa, Johnson, Montgomery, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Pratt and Woodson ( Huggins 1980). Kentucky: Carter, Harlan ( Parfin & Gurney 1956), Bell ( Brown 1974). Louisiana: Jefferson, Pointe Coupee, St. Charles, St. Tammany ( Poirrier 1969); Beauregard, East Feliciana ( Poirrier & Arceneaux 1972). Maine: [Aroostook, Kennebec, Penobscot, Kennebec, Washington] ( Parfin & Gurney 1956); Waldo Co. (BYUC). Massachusetts: county unknown ( Carpenter 1940), [Middlesex, Norfolk] ( Parfin & Gurney 1956). Maryland: county unknown ( Carpenter 1940), [Montgomery] ( Parfin & Gurney 1956). Michigan: Cheboygan, [Emmet], Wayne ( Carpenter 1940), Livingston, [Washtenaw] ( Parfin & Gurney 1956), Kalamazoo (INHS), Allegan, Ingham, Kalamazoo, Schoolcraft (MSU). Minnesota: county unknown ( Walker 1853), Cass, Clearwater, Kittson, Marshall, Polk, Traverse ( Parfin 1952), [Itasca, Millelacs] ( Parfin & Gurney 1956). Mississippi: Stone, Wilkinson ( Poirrier & Holzenthal 1980); Lafayette ( Lago 1981), Grenada, Oktibbeha, Smith (MEM), [ Marshall] (INHS). Missouri: Dunklin (Froeschner 1947), Boone (INHS, UMC), Cape Girardeau (INHS). New York: county unknown ( Carpenter 1940), Tompkins, Westchester counties, [Erie, Essex, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Ostego, Suffolk] ( Parfin & Gurney 1956). North Carolina: [ Wake] ( Carpenter 1940). North Dakota: Foster (Stoakes et al. 1983), Stark (BYUC). Oklahoma: Grayson, Marshall (White 1976), Delware, (ONHS), Latimer (DEB, TAMU). Oregon: [Jackson] ( Carpenter 1940). Pennsylvania: county unknown ( Carpenter 1940). Rhode Island: [Washington] ( Parfin & Gurney 1956). Tennessee: [Montgomery] ( Parfin & Gurney 1956). Texas: Bexar ( Parfin & Gurney 1956) (DEB), Colorado ( Carpenter 1940); Aransas (USNM), Brazos (TAMU), Coleman (BYUC), Fort Bend (TAMU), Gonzales (INHS), Grimes (TAMU), Guadalupe (USNM), Jackson (SEMC), Jasper (TAMU), Montgomery (TAMU), [Tarrant] (INHS). Virginia: [Fairfax] ( Parfin & Gurney 1956). Washington: [Spokane] ( Parfin & Gurney 1956), Giles (SEMC). Wisconsin: county unknown ( Carpenter 1940), [Vilas] ( Parfin & Gurney 1956), Barron, Grant, Florence, Fond du Lac, Marquette, Oneida, Ozaukee, Walworth, Waukesha, Wood, Vilas ( Throne 1971).

New State Records. UNITED STATES. Alabama: Baldwin Co., Bon Secour N. W.

Refuge, T95, R2E, Sec 24, 5 -6-IX-1988, R. L. Brown, J. MacGown, 1 male, 2 females (MEM). Arkansas: Logan Co., Cove Lake, 23-V-1991, blacklight, J. Powell, 1 female (E MEC); [Poinsett Co.], Marked Tree, Little River, 22-V-1957, Ross & Stannard, 1 female (INHS). New Hampshire: no additional data (USNM). New Jersey: Cumberland Co., Parvin St. Park, nr Vineland, 8-VIII-1971, 1 adult (sex not determined) (AMNH). Ohio: Delaware Co., jct Deer Run & Scioto Rivers, 27-VII-1985, S. M. Clark, 1 male (BYUC): same, but O’Shaughnessy Res. nr Shawnee Hills, 7-IX-1985, S. M. Clark, 1 female (BYUC).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 10. Structures of larval Sisyridae. 1 – 2. Abdominal tergite 6, tubercle group, left side, dorsal (redrawn from Pupedis 1980): 1. Climacia. 2. Sisyra. 3 – 4. Mesothoracic sclerite, right side, dorsal: Climacia spp: 3. C. areolaris and C. chapini. 4. C. californica, (redrawn from Pupedis 1980). 5 – 6. Abdominal segment 6, lateral turbercle (redrawn from Pupedis 1980): 5. C. areolaris. 6. C. chapini. 7 – 8. Abdominal segment 1, ventral gill: 7. S. nigra and S. vicaria (redrawn from Weissmair & Waringer 1994). 8. S. apicalis. 9 – 10. Abdominal segment 5, lateral tubercle (redrawn from Poirrier & Arcenaux 1972): 9. S. nigra and S. vicaria. 10. S. apicalis.

FIGURES 27 – 35. Male and female terminalia of Sisyra (modified from Parfin & Gurney 1956). 27 – 29. Sisyra apicalis: 27. Male, lateral; 28. Male, dorsal; 29. Female, lateral. 30 – 32. Sisyra vicaria: 30. Male, lateral; 31. Male, dorsal; 32. Female, lateral. 33 – 35. Sisyra nigra: 33. Male, lateral; 34. Male, dorsal; 35. Female, lateral.