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9b. Aritranis imitator imitator (Provancher) 



Cryplus imitator Provancher, 1877, Naturaliste Canadien, vol. 9, p. 13; ?. Type: 

 ?, Quebec (Quebec). 



Male : Black. Broad orbital stripe on face that extends on to cheek, 

 large median oval spot on face, clypeus except apical margin, mandible 

 except apically, and palpi white, the palpi brownish apically; tegula 

 dark brown, its outer edge usually white ; trochanters apically often with 

 ferruginous tinges; front and middle femora and tibiae ferruginous, 

 the knees and front side of tibiae paler; front and middle tarsi pale 

 stramineous, their fifth segments light brown; hind femur ferruginous, 

 its apical 0.12 ± faintly to moderately inf uscate ; hind tibia dark brown, 

 ferruginous basally; hind tarsus white, the basal 0.25 ± of its first 

 segment and apical 0.25 i of its last segment dark brown; wings 

 faintly infuscate; abdomen ferruginous, fifth segment sometimes 

 black, the sixth and following segments always black, the seventh 

 with a median apical white spot, sometimes the sixth tergite with a 

 smaller median apical spot. 



Female: Black. Clypeus and mandible usually with a ferruginous 

 stain; flagellum with a median white stripe above that covers about 

 3.5 segments; palpi fuscous; tegula very dark brown; front and middle 

 legs beyond trochanters ferruginous, the fifth segments of their tarsi 

 ferruginous brown; hind femur ferruginous, its apical 0.12 ± faintly 

 to strongly infuscate, sometimes most of the femur infuscate; hind 

 tibia dark brown, ferruginous basally; fii'st and last segments of hind 

 tarsus dark brown, the rest white, often the apex of first segment and 

 base of last also white; -wings wealdy infuscate; abdomen ferruginous, 

 its fifth segment often more or less infuscate, its sixth and following 

 segments black, the seventh and sometimes also the eighth with a small 

 or very small median white spot. 



Specimens (22 cf, 429): From Alberta (Clymont); Connecticut 

 (Cornwall); Maine (Bangor, Northeast Harbor, and Lincoln Co.); 

 Michigan (Bay Co., Clare Co., East Lansing, Kalkaska Co., Missaukee 

 Co., Naubinway, and Rudyard); Minnesota (Grand Rapids, Itasca 

 Park, Mille Lacs Co., Plummer, and St. Anthony Park); New Bruns- 

 wick (Pokemouche) ; New Hampshire (Carriage Road on Mount 

 Washington and Jaffrey); New York (Bemus Point, Breesport, Coy 

 Glen near Ithaca, Hamburg, Ithaca, Oneonta, Rochester, and Taug- 

 hannock near Ithaca); Nova Scotia (Truro); Ohio (Brecksville) ; 

 Ontario (Jockvale, Parry Sound, and Smoky Falls on Mattagami 

 River); Quebec (Aylmer, Hull, He de Montreal, La Trappe, Montreal, 

 Nominingue, Ste. Anne des Monts, and St. Hilaire); Rhode Island 

 (Westerly) ; Vermont (Laurel Lake near Jacksonville) ; and Wisconsin 

 (Madison, Platte ville, and Worden Township in Clark Co.). 



