Aradus brevicornis Kormilev 1980

• Main Authors: Heiss, Ernst, Scudder, Geoffrey G. E.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hemiptera; Aradidae; Aradus; Aradus brevicornis; Peace River
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3811193; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D487A0FFE6FFA4719CFBACFD9FA178

Aradus brevicornis KORMILEV, 1980 (Figs 19-28) M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: ALBERTA: 1♀, Peace River, 18.vi.1961 (A.&R. Brooks) [CNC]. ONTARIO: 1♀, Alfred, bog edge, sifting litter around rasp.-blackberry cane, 16.iv.1985 (A. Davies) [CNC]. QUEBEC: 4♂♂, Montreal, 7.ix.1981 (E.J. Kiteley) [CNC], 1♂ [EHCI]. Described from California and recorded only from that state in HENRY & FROESCHNER (1988). The senior author compared the specimens with photographs of the male holotype which is in the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. KORMILEV (1980) stated that A. brevicornis runs to A. borealis HEIDEMANN, 1909 in Parshley’s key, but differs in that the antennae are shorter, with the second antennae segment half as long as the distance between the eyes, and the labium is much shorter, reaching half of prosternum. Females are brachypterous. The species also has a different coloration. The unreported male genitalic structures are figured for the first time. Published as part of Heiss, Ernst & Scudder, Geoffrey G. E., 2019, Aradidae (Heteroptera) new to North America and Canada, with some additional provincial and state records for Canada and the USA, pp. 821-829 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (2) on page 824, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3738639