Acmopolynema sema Schauff, 1981

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Acmopolynema sema Schauff 1981: 447 –449 + 450, 457 (illustrations). Acmopolynema sema Schauff: Triapitsyn, Hoddle and Morgan 2002: 654 –655 (distribution, host associations).

Type locality

Fort Valley, Peach Co., Georgia, USA.

Material examined [UCRC]

USA. GEORGIA: Houston Co., near Centerville, 32°38’03.3’’N, 83°43’06.4’’W, 131 m, 21.vi.2004, S.V. Triapitsyn, T. Cottrell (collected together with adults of H. insolita on grasses) [1 female]. Peach Co., Byron, 3.viii.2005, T. Cottrell (emerged 4–9.viii. 2005 in the University of California, Riverside (hereafter UCR) quarantine from eggs of H. insolita on grass) [26 females, 5 males].

Diagnosis

Well described and illustrated by Schauff (1981). The main distinguishing features of this species are as follows. Body length 1000–1300. Body brown to dark brown; several antennal and leg segments, and petiole yellow to light brown. Forewing (Fig. 1) with two large brown bands, enlarged modified discal setae restricted to the proximal large band.

Distribution

Florida, Georgia, and Texas (Schauff 1981; Triapitsyn, Hoddle and Morgan 2002); common and widespread in southeastern USA; also occurs in Mexico and southeastern Canada (V.V. Berezovskiy and S.V. Triapitsyn, unpublished).

Hosts

Homalodisca insolita (Walker); under laboratory conditions, A. sema was also briefly reared (with limited success) on eggs of Homalodisca coagulata (Say) (Triapitsyn, Hoddle and Morgan 2002) .