Dendrocoris humeralis ( Uhler 1877 )

Dendrocoris humeralis ( Uhler 1877)

( Figure 8)

Diagnosis. Vertex of head flat. Juga contiguous before tylus. Cicatrices concolorous with pronotal disk. Anterolateral pronotal margins strongly, angulately concave in dorsal view, calloused, with narrow, pale, impunctate, inframargin. Humeral angles prominent. Legs immaculate. Abdominal spiracles concolorous with venter or sometimes narrowly darkened. Tubercle present a t base of abdomen in females, absent in males. Veins of hemelytral membrane simple or furcate, not reticulate. Mesial emargination of pygophore not attended by small, black, teeth. Paramere bidigitate ( Fig. 8).

Distribution.USA: Arkansas, California, Colorado,Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusettes, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia. MEXICO: Coahuila, Nuevo Leon.

Remarks. Uhler (1877) reported this species on oaks andhiclrory. Van Duzee (1904), Froeschner (1941) and McPherson (1982) all cite oak as the host. Nelson (1955) collected it on black oak and cited records for oak and pine. Stoner (1920) cites oak, hickory and hazel.