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The vertex of the head is more deeply foveate than suturalis. The interspaces on the pronotum are more granulate than in suturalis which has smooth, shining interspaces. The elytra are wider than suturalis and not darker basally. The elytra have fewer and smaller clusters of white scales on the even interspaces. The legs are stouter than suturalis and have smaller ventral tooth. The protibia is less sinuate than suturalis and has a smaler, more nearly perpendicular apical uncus. The metatibia has a smaller apical mucro.
Description.
Length: x.x-x.x mm. Width: x.x-x.x mm.
Head: vertex finely granulose, sparsely, minutely punctuate and setose; with deep median fovea; eyes round, not raised behind, slightly larger in male.
Rostrum: moderately, evenly curved; rugose, not strongly carinate, minutely, sparsely setose above antennal insertions, smoother and more sparsely punctuate below insertions; upper margin of lateral rostral groove feebly carinate; longer, more slender and less strongly rugose in female.
Antennae: funiculus with seven articles.
Prothorax: black; dorsum and pleural area with large, round punctures and finely rugulose interspaces; lateral portions of dorsum with slightly smaller punctures with wider interspaces; punctures on lower portions of pleural area deeper and more elongate; each puncture with one slender white scale or seta, broader on lower portions of pleural area and in narrow middorsal line.
Elytra: darker basally and dorsomedially; elongate, humeri slightly wider; striae narrow, narrow, with narrow punctures; interstriae subequal in width, smooth to slightly rugulose, shining; strial punctures finely, minutely setose; interstriae with sparse, fine white setae and and with broader, narrow white scales on base of interstria 6; even-numbered interstriae with clusters of white scales surrounding indefinite posterolateral macula.
Pygidium: male with exposed portion evenly convex, coarsely punctute, finely setose, carinate behind; female more strongly convex but not carinate behind, broadly concave posteromedially.
Abdomen: sterna 3 and 4 narrower than 1 and 2, with spares, narrow, white scales; sternum 5 narrower than 4, with fine, suberect, posteromedian setae.
Legs: femora moderately stout, rugulose, with sparse, white scales; profemur slightly stouter, with small, conical, ventral tooth; mesofemur and metafemur with minute ventral tooth; protibia and mesotibia feebly sinuate on ventral margin, rugulose, setose, with small perpendicular uncus; metatibia with straighter ventral margin, with small, stout apical mucro in male, smaller mucro in female; tarsal claws slender, with slender inner tooth.
Genitalia (Fig. x): aedeagus ...
BugGuide A. haematopus
BugGuide A. haematopus
haematopus
LeConte 1876:200. A. sycophanta Walsh, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., vi, 265.
Western States, Illinois; Mr. Walsh. Breeds in galls on willow trees. This species is easily known by the interspaces of the elytra rather flat, and nearly opaque; the punctures of the prothorax are very coarse and crowded. The pubescence is hairy above, but coarser and almost scale-like beneath, the beak is punctured and striate; the thighs are all armed with a tooth, and the front tibiae are nearly straight. The color varies but the elytra are always red, though sometimes darker near the scutellum.
I am disposed to believe this is A. haematopus Boh. Sch. Curc., vii, 2, 222, with the description of which it agrees in all particulars, except that the prothorax is not "rugoso granulato," a style of sculpture very unlikely to occur in the genus, but which may be a vague method of indicated the very coarse deep punctures with narrow high intervals which characterize this species.
Dietz 1891:209. A. sycophanta Walsh. [description]
[p. 210] Hab.-- Pennsylvaina, Illinois, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Michigan, Oregon, Colorada, S. California, District of Columbia.
Occurs probably in all the Atlantic, Middle and Western States. Varies somewhat in coloratio, but the elytra and the abdomen are always ferruginous. The anterior thoracic margin is generally reddish. The legs are either bright ferruginous, or else pitchy black, without having observed any intermediate variations. One specimen in Dr. Horn's collection from South California has the elytra striae
rather superficial and the punctures smaller. I have not doubt of the identity of this species with A. haematopus Boh.
Burke and Gates 1972:1221-1222. Anthonomus haematopus Boheman. A haematopus is one of the most widely distributed species of the genus, occurring from Massachesetts to California, and in southern Canada. The species apparently does not occur in the southeastern and southwestern United States.
Paragraphs on the biology of the species follow, recognizing A. sycophanta as a synonym.
Anderson, D. M. 1963. Notes on the life history of Anthonomus sycophanta Walsh, with descriptions of the immature stages. Coelopt. Bull. 17:73-78.
Caltagirone, L. E. 1964. Notes on the biology, parasites, and inqilines of Pontania pacifica a leaf-gall incitant on Salix lasiolepis. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 57:279-91
Burke 1968:39-40. Anthonomus haematopus. description of the pupa. [p. 40] Anderson (1963) reported on the life history and described in detail the larva and pupa of this species under the name Anthonomus sycophanta Walsh. He noted the possibility that sycophanta Walsh might be a syonym of hematopus Boheman but maintained, as did Blatchley and Leng (1916) , a change in name, if necessary, should not be made until the type of haematopus could be examined. I recently studied Boheman's type of this species, obtained on loan from the Zoologisches Institut, and colcluded that sycophant Walsh is, as previously supposed by others, a synonym of haematopus Boheman. This synonymy will be discussed in detail in my proposed revision of Antonomus.
The larvae of A. haematopus develop in galls caused by various species of sawflies of the genera Pontania and Euura on leaves of Salix spp. (Walsh 1866; Anderson, 1963; Caltagirone, 1964). Based on adult specimens examined and apparently reliable records from the literature, this species appears to occur throughout most of the United States (except perhaps in the southern and southwestern states) and in adjacent areas in Canada.
Ahmad and Burke 1972:50. description of larva. Biology and discussion as in pupal paper.
Blatchley and Leng 1916:296-297. Anthonomus sycophanta Walsh. In key to species in "Group C" and brief description. "Lake County, Indiana, scarce; May 29--August 9. Many records near New York City, May, June and August. Rock City, N.J., June 10; abundant on laurel (Davis.) Ranges from Canada and new England to Oregon and California on a line north of the Ohio River. Breeds in galls made by saw-flies on willow. (Walsh.) Although LeConte, Dietz and Fall have all expressed the opionion that this species is a snyonym of A. haemotopus (sic) Boh. (1843, Pt. 2, 222), yet nono of them have seen Boheman's type, which was from Boston, and had the intervals of elytra 'angustis, convexus, laevibus,' a character which agrees far better with the next species [A. rufipennis LeConte] than with this. We therefore retain the name by which it is best known until Boheman's type can be acurately determined."
Blatchley and Leng 1916:298. Anthonomus flavicornis Boheman. In key to species in "Group C" and brief description. "Steuben and Posey counties, Ind., scarce; probably throughout the State; May 11--June 6. Rare near New York City in July. Ranges from Ottawa, Canada, Pennsylvania and Maryland to Florida and Texas. Found by Scharz inhabiting the globular galls of a mite on the leaves of a night-shade, Solanum elaeagniforlium Cav. in Texas, and by hamilton on St. Johns wort, dogwood and hawthorn in Pennsylvania." [this is actually A. aeneolus]
Hatch 1971:346, A. haematopus, in key to species in suturalis group, recorded from se B.C., Wn., n Id., Or.; on willow. Brown 1934:151. sycophanta Walsh. Dietz 1891:209.