Pronotocrepis, KNIGHT, 1929

Wyniger, Denise, 2010, Resurrection of the Pronotocrepini Knight, with Revisions of the Nearctic Genera Orectoderus Uhler, Pronotocrepis Knight, and Teleorhinus Uhler, and Comments on the Palearctic Ethelastia Reuter (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae), American Museum Novitates 2010 (3703), pp. 1-68 : 40-42

GENUS PRONOTOCREPIS KNIGHT

Type species: Pronotocrepis clavicornis Knight, 1929: 217 (by monotypy).

Pronotocrepis Knight, 1929: 217 (original description); Carvalho, 1952: 65 (catalog), 1955a: 43 (key), 1958: 110 (catalog); Knight, 1969: 79 (key to species); Schuh, 1974: 309 (note); McIver and Stonedahl, 1987a: 258 (note), 1987b: 278 (note).

DIAGNOSIS: Recognized by trapezoidal pronotum (fig. 7) with lateral margin explanate; corium with embolium slightly explanate; body shape wide oval; second antennal segment clavate, red-black (fig. 7); third and fourth antennal segments slender; labium long, reaching over metacoxae; pulvilli almost reaching apex of the claws and attached over entire length of pulvillus (fig. 8C); vesica short, curved apically, angled, terminating in flattened roundish apex with serrate margin (figs. 8F, 9). Distinguished from Orectoderus and Teleorhinus by general aspect (fig. 7), vesica (figs. 8F, 9), and female genitalia (fig. 11).

REDESCRIPTION: Male: Large, ovate; total length 5.25–5.76, length apex clypeus-cuneus fracture 4.17–4.38, width across pronotum 1.95–2.14. COLORATION: Head orange, vertex yellowish orange; labium dark brown with first segment paler; pronotum usually dark brown, calli and distal edge of pronotum sometimes bright yellowish orange; mesoscutum and scutellum brown; pronotum and scutellum in brighter colored specimens with faint yellowish-orange band medially; hemeyltra dark brown with embolium brown, orange-red, or yellowish white; cuneus orange-red or yellowish white, apically brown in specimens with bright embolium; cuneus in dark-colored specimens completely brown; membrane including veins brown; first antennal segment bright yellowish orange or dark red, sometimes brown distally; second antennal segment red with distal part brown; third and fourth antennal segments brown; venter dark brown; propleuron red-orange dorsally, brownish ventrally; meso- and metapleuron brown; coxae, trochanter, femora, and tibia yellow; femora sometimes orange, tibia brownish distally; tarsus brown. SURFACE AND VESTITURE: General aspect very shiny (fig. 7); pronotum and scutellum rugose; punctation of hemelytra and clavus deep; embolium without punctation; dorsal surface, including antennal segments clothed with reclining black setae (fig. 8D), also gula bearing strong, dark setae; tibia with black spines; claws straight, curved apically; pretarsus with pulvillus connate to claw on its entire length (fig. 8C). STRUCTURE: Ovate (fig. 7); first rostral segment overlapping proximal margin of gula (fig. 8A); labium long, overlapping metatrochanter; vertex with yellowish triangular carina medially; pronotum with yellowish carina at distal outer margin. GENITALIA: Pygophore moderately large (fig. 8E); vesica simple strap, curved apically, tapering to roundish apex with serrate margin (figs. 8F, 9); vesica widest at level of secondary gonopore; secondary gonopore with expanded denticulate lobe basally; apex of anterior process of leπ paramere blunt; right paramere elongate ending in pointed apophysis (fig. 9).

Female: Total length 5.35–6.11, length apex clypeus-cuneus fracture 4.39–4.52, width across pronotum 2.11–2.15. Coloration, surface, vestiture, and structure as in males; compared to male second antennal segment widened on its entire length. GENITALIA: Sclerotized rings of dorsal labiate plate asymmetrical, triangular, straight basally, rounded apically; posterior wall partially sclerotized (fig. 12).

HOSTS: Ribes cereum and R. inerme (Grossulariaceae) .

DISTRIBUTION: United States and Canada.

DISCUSSION: Erected by Knight (1929) as a monotypic genus for his new species Pronotocrepis clavicornis . Two additional species, ribesi and ruber , were later described by Knight (1969).