. Brigham Young University science bulletin. Biology -- Periodicals. MtRIDAE OF THE NEVADA TEST SlTE 151 length .44 mm, width at base .92 mm; pallid, sprinkled with small and large red spots. Scutel- lum red, apex pale. Hemelytra with ground color pallid, thickly covered by spots, dots and patches of rose red, leaving nearly half the area in ground color. Membrane pale fuscous brown, veins red. Dorsal surface clothed with recum- bent to semierect, pallid to yellow simple hairs, intermixed with appressed, silvery sericeous, and smaller amounts of golden brown pubescence; also with golden brown
. Brigham Young University science bulletin. Biology -- Periodicals. MtRIDAE OF THE NEVADA TEST SlTE 151 length .44 mm, width at base .92 mm; pallid, sprinkled with small and large red spots. Scutel- lum red, apex pale. Hemelytra with ground color pallid, thickly covered by spots, dots and patches of rose red, leaving nearly half the area in ground color. Membrane pale fuscous brown, veins red. Dorsal surface clothed with recum- bent to semierect, pallid to yellow simple hairs, intermixed with appressed, silvery sericeous, and smaller amounts of golden brown pubescence; also with golden brown hairs behind apex of clavus and along inner margin of cuneus. Ven- tral surface red. Legs red, coxae paler on apices; femora red, front pair showing spots more clear- ly, hind pair with spots distinct only on apices and ventral surface; tibiae pallid, pallid spines with red spots at base. Venter red, genital seg- ment yellowish to red; claspers distinctive of the species (Fig. 215). Female. Length mm, width mm. Head: width .61 mm, vertex .30 mm; yellowish, more reddish beneath. Rostrum, length mm, reaching upon base of ovipositor. Antennae: segment I, length .20 mm, yellowish to reddish; II, .92 mm, yellowish; III, broken. Pronotum, length .40 mm, width at base .98 mm. Pubes- cence similar to the male, but color lighter, red on the dorsum reduced to irregular patches, spots and dots. Holotvpe: cf May 12, 1929, Tucson, Arizona (E. D. Ball). Allotype: 9 same data as the tvpe. Paratypes: 5cf 19 taken with the types. Parthenicus pictus Knight Fig. 220 Parthenicus pictus Knight, 1925:121. Described and known from Arizona. Record from the Nevada Test Site: 9 Aug. 15, 1965, Area M (Mercury) (J. M. Merino), taken at incandescent light. Parthenicus oreades Knight Fig. 222 Parthenicus oreades Knight, 1925:122. Known from Arizona and Colorado. Col- lected on Ceanothus fendleri. Parthenicus paltidicollis Van Duzee Fig. 214 Parthenicus paltidicollis Van Duzee, 1925:402. Known f
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