Lathrobium (Abletobium) pallescens (Casey, 1905)
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Lathrobium (Abletobium) pallescens (Casey, 1905) |
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Lathrobium (Abletobium) pallescens (Casey, 1905) View in CoL
Abletobium pallescens Casey, 1905: 79.
Lathrobium (Abletobium) pallescens : Bernhauer and Schubert 1912: 265.
Type material.
Lectotype, Abletobium pallescens Casey herein designated (USNM): "MASS / CASEY bequest 1925 / [red] TYPE USNM 38106 / [handwritten] Abletobium pallescens Jul / Lectotype Abletobium pallescens Casey Desg. Haberski & Caterino."
Other material.
Canada, Ontario: Carleton Co.: Fitzroy Provincial Park, 02 May 1979, A. & Z. Smetana, (1 CNC); Grey Co. : Ingli's Falls , 24 Jun 1985, B. Sinclair (1 CNC) . Quebec: Haut Saint François: Johnville , 01 Nov 1987, C. Levesque (1 CNC); same locality, 03 Jul 1988 (1 CNC); same locality, 30 Oct 1988 (1 CNC) .
Diagnosis.
This species can be distinguished from all other Abletobium by the presence of eyes with ommatidia.
Description.
Body length 6 mm; Body coloration pale red. Eyes small, ~ 30 ommatidia. Head wider than pronotum; gular sutures parallel, widely separate throughout; antennomeres V-VII 1.8 × longer than wide. Elytra slightly shorter than pronotum. Females with paraprocts undivided, apices longer than basal portion; sternite VIII conical with small apical notch. Median lobe of aedeagus fully sclerotized and tube-like (Fig. 19 View Figures 19, 20 ).
Distribution.
Canada: ON, QC. USA: MA.
Remarks.
This species had not been previously recorded in Canada because CNC specimens had been misidentified as L. shermani . We corrected these identifications.
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Paederinae |
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Lathrobiini |
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Lathrobiina |
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Lathrobium (Abletobium) pallescens (Casey, 1905)
Haberski, Adam & Caterino, Michael S. 2024 |
Abletobium pallescens
Casey 1905 |