Corisella inscripta is a water boatman species that was reported in H. B. Hungerford\u27s (1948) seminal monograph as occurring throughout Mexico and nine western states of the United States. Subsequently, additional records of C. inscripta have been reported for British Columbia in Canada (Maw et al. 2000) and for Montana (Roemhild 1976), Arkansas (Cochran and Harp 1990), Missouri (Polhemus et al. 1988), Ohio (Chordas and Armitage 1998), and Michigan (Chordas et al. 2002) in the United States. There have been no published records of C. inscripta from North Dakota (Fig. I). We collected one male C. inscripta at the Cottonwood Lake Study Area in western Stutsman County, North Dakota in September 2005 and a second individual there in September 2006

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University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln The Prairie Naturalist Great Plains Natural Science Society 5-2007 First Record of Corisella inscripta (Uhler) (Heteroptera: Corixidae) from North Dakota Bruce A. Hanson David M. Mushet Ned A. Euliss Jr. Stephen Chordas III Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tpn  Part of the Biodiversity Commons, Botany Commons, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Commons, Natural Resources and Conservation Commons, Systems Biology Commons, and the Weed Science Commons This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Great Plains Natural Science Society at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Prairie Naturalist by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. NOTES 107 FIRST RECORD OF CORISELLA INSCRIPT A (UHLER) (HETEROPTERA: CORIXlDAE) FROM NORTH DAKOTA -- Corisella inscripta is a water boatman species that was reported in H. B. Hungerford's (1948) seminal mono-graph as occurring throughout Mexico and nine western states of the United States. Subsequently, additional records of C. inscripta have been reported for British Columbia in Canada (Maw et al. 2000) and for Montana (Roemhild 1976), Arkansas (Cochran and Harp 1990), Missouri (Polhemus et al. 1988), Ohio (Chordas and Armitage 1998), and Michigan (Chordas et al. 2002) in the United States. There have been no published records of C. inscripta from North Dakota (Fig. I). We collected one male C. inscripta at the Cottonwood Lake Study Area in western Stutsman County, North Dakota in September 2005 and a second individual there in September 2006. The specimens were captured in funnel traps (Swanson 1978) set in the deep-marsh zone of a semipermanent wetland (Stewart and Kantrud 1971). A detailed description of the Cottonwood Lake Study Area is published in Swanson et al. (2003). As is typical for wetlands in the northern Great Plains, this wetland has fluctuated between wet and dry phases. At the time of sampling, the wetland was in the lake marsh phase (van der Valk and Davis 1978) and had been flooded continuouslt for 13 to 14 years, during an unusually long period of above-normal precipitation (Winter and Rosenberry 1998). In 2005, the water temperature was 18°C and specific conductance was 3011 flS cm·! at the collection site where the first C. inscripta specimen was collected. In 2006, water temperature was 14°C and specific conductance was 4010 flS cm-! at the site where the second C. inscripta specimen was collected. Both emergent and submergent aquatic vegetation were absent at the sample locations and throughout most of the wetland due to the prolonged deep-water flooding. However, stands of emergent vegetation including broadleaf cattail (Typha latifolia), hard stem bulrush (Schoenoplectus acutus), common rivergrass (Scolochloa festucacea), and wheat sedge (Carex atherodes) occurred around the wetland edge. Only one other species of Corisella, C. tarsalis (Fieber), is known to occur in the Prairie Pothole Region of the northern Great Plains (Euliss et al. 1999). Corisella inscripta males are easily distinguished from C. tarsalis males by the stout, erect pegs below the apex of the tibia and on the pala of C. tarsalis (Fig. 2). The C. inscripta specimens reported here from the Cottonwood Lake Study Area are conserved in the aquatic invertebrate collection at the United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center in Jamestown, North Dakota. We thank Jane E. Austin, Lawrence D. Igl, and Jill A. Shaffer for reviewing earlier drafts of our note.--Bruce A. Hanson, David M Mushetl, Ned H. Euliss, Jr., and Steve W Chordas III. United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, 8711 37th Street SE, Jamestown, ND 58401 (BAH. DMM NHE, Jr.). Ohio State University, Museum of Biological Diversity, 1315 Kinnear Road, Columbus, OH 43212 (SWC). 'Corresponding author. E-mail address: david_mushet@usgs.gov 108 The Prairie Naturalist 39(2): June 2007 Figure 1. Recorded North American distribution of Corisella inscripta (Uhler). The star (*) indicates new records reported herein. LITERATURE CITED Chordas, S. W., III, and B. 1. Armitage. 1998. New Ohio records of Corixidae (Hemiptera). Entomological News 109:339-342. Chordas, S. W., III, E. G. Chapman, P. L. Hudson, M. A. Chriscinske, and R. L. Stewart, lr. 2002. New mid-western state records of aquatic Hemiptera (Corixidae: Notonectidae). Entomological News 113 :31 0-314. Cochran, B. G., and G. L. Harp. 1990. The aquatic macroinvertebrates of the st. Francis Sunken Lands in northeast Arkansas. Proceedings of the Arkansas Academy of Science 44:23-27. NOTES 109 Corisella inscripta C. inscripta Figure 2. Corise fla inscripta (Uhler), habitus, male. Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota. Tibia and pala of male C. inscripta and C. tarsalis (Fieber) . Note the stout, erect pegs (indicated by arrows) be low the apex of the tibia and in the upper palar peg row of C. tarsalis . Euliss, N. H. , Jr. , D. A. Wrubleski , and D. M. Mushet. 1999. invertebrates in wetlands of the Prairie Pothole Region: invertebrate species composition, ecology, and management. Pp. 471-514 in Invertebrates in freshwater wetlands of North America: ecology and management (D. P. Batzer, R. B. Rader, and S. A. Wissinger, editors). John Wiley and Sons, Inc. , New York, New York. Hungerford, H. B. 1948. The Corixidae of the Western Hemisphere (Hemiptera). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 32: 1-827. 110 The Prairie Naturalist 39(2): June 2007 Maw, H. E. L., R. G. Foottit, K. G. A. Hamilton, and G. G. E. Scudder. 2000. Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Polhemus, J. T., R. C. Froeschner, and D. A. Polhemus. 1988. Family Corixidae Leach, 1815, the water boatman. Pp. 93-120 in Catalog of the Heteroptera, or true bugs, of Canada and the continental United States (T. 1. Henry and R. C. Froeschner, editors). E.1. Brill, New York, New York. Roemhild, G. 1976. The aquatic Heteroptera (true bugs) of Montana. Montana Agricultural Experiment Station, Research Report 102. Bozeman, Montana. Stewart, R. E., and H. A. Kantrud. 1971. Classification of natural ponds and lakes in the glaciated prairie region. United States Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication No. 92, Washington, District of Columbia. Swanson, G. A. 1978. Funnel trap for collecting littoral aquatic invertebrates. Progressive Fish-Culturist 40:73. Swanson, G. A., N. H. Euliss, Jr., B. A. Hanson, and D. M. Mushet. 2003. Dynamics of a prairie pothole wetland complex: implications for wetland management. Pp. 55-94 in Hydrological, chemical, and biological characteris-tics of a prairie pothole wetland complex under highly variable climate conditions - the Cottonwofild Lake area, east-central North Dakota (T. C. Winter, editor). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1675, Denver, Colorado. van der Valk, A. G., and C. B. Davis. 1978. The role of seed banks in the vegetation dynamics of prairie glacial marshes. Ecology 59:322-335. Winter, T. c., and D. O. Rosenberry. 1998. Hydrology of prairie pothole wetlands during drought and deluge: a 17 -year study of the Cottonwood Lake wetland complex in North Dakota in the perspective of longer tenn measured and proxy hydrological records. Climatic Change 40: 189-209. Received: 14 March 2007 Accepted: 6 September 2007 Associate Editor for Invertebrate Zoology: Richard 1. Packauskas 

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University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center US Geological Survey 2007 First Record of Corisella inscripta (Uhler) (Heteroptera: Corixidae) from North Dakota Bruce A. Hanson U.S. Geological Survey David M. Mushet U.S. Geological Survey, dmushet@usgs.gov Ned H. Euliss Jr. U.S. Geological Survey, ceuliss@usgs.gov Steve W. Chordas III Ohio State University - Main Campus Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usgsnpwrc Hanson, Bruce A.; Mushet, David M.; Euliss, Ned H. Jr.; and Chordas, Steve W. III, "First Record of Corisella inscripta (Uhler) (Heteroptera: Corixidae) from North Dakota" (2007). USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center. 263. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usgsnpwrc/263 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the US Geological Survey at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. 107FIRST RECORD OF CORISELLA INSCRIPTA (UHLER) (HETEROPTERA:CORIXIDAE) FROM NORTH DAKOTA -- Corisella inscripta is a waterboatman species that was reported in H. B. Hungerford’s (1948) seminal mono-graph as occurring throughout Mexico and nine western states of the UnitedStates.  Subsequently, additional records of C. inscripta have been reported forBritish Columbia in Canada (Maw et al. 2000) and for Montana (Roemhild 1976),Arkansas (Cochran and Harp 1990), Missouri (Polhemus et al. 1988), Ohio (Chordasand Armitage 1998), and Michigan (Chordas et al. 2002) in the United States.  Therehave been no published records of C. inscripta from North Dakota (Fig. 1).We collected one male C. inscripta at the Cottonwood Lake Study Area inwestern Stutsman County, North Dakota in September 2005 and a secondindividual there in September 2006.  The specimens were captured in funnel traps(Swanson 1978) set in the deep-marsh zone of a semipermanent wetland (Stewartand Kantrud 1971).  A detailed description of the Cottonwood Lake Study Area ispublished in Swanson et al. (2003).  As is typical for wetlands in the northern GreatPlains, this wetland has fluctuated between wet and dry phases.  At the time ofsampling, the wetland was in the lake marsh phase (van der Valk and Davis 1978)and had been flooded continuously for 13 to 14 years, during an unusually longperiod of above-normal precipitation (Winter and Rosenberry 1998).  In 2005, thewater temperature was 18°C and specific conductance was 3011 µS cm-1 at thecollection site where the first C. inscripta specimen was collected.  In 2006, watertemperature was 14°C and specific conductance was 4010 µS cm-1 at the site whenthe second C. inscripta specimen was collected.  Both emergent and submergentaquatic vegetation were absent at the sample locations and throughout most of thewetland due to the prolonged deep-water flooding.  However, stands of emergentvegetation including broadleaf cattail (Typha latifolia), hardstem bulrush(Schoenoplectus acutus), common rivergrass (Scolochloa festucacea), and wheatsedge (Carex atherodes) occurred around the wetland edge.Only one other species of Corisella, C. tarsalis (Fieber), is known to occur in thePrairie Pothole Region of the northern Great Plains (Euliss et al. 1999).  Corisellainscripta males are easily distinguished from C. tarsalis males by the stout, erect pegsbelow the apex of the tibia and on the pala of C. tarsalis (Fig. 2).  The C. inscriptaspecimens reported here from the Cottonwood Lake Study Area are conserved in theaquatic invertebrate collection at the United States Geological Survey, Northern PrairieWildlife Research Center in Jamestown, North Dakota.We thank Jane E. Austin, Lawrence D. Igl, and Jill A. Shaffer for reviewing earlierdrafts of our note.--Bruce A. Hanson, David M. Mushet1, Ned H. Euliss, Jr., and SteveW. Chordas III.  United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife ResearchCenter, 8711 37th Street SE, Jamestown, ND 58401 (BAH, DMM, NHE, Jr.).  OhioState University, Museum of Biological Diversity, 1315 Kinnear Road, Columbus, OH43212 (SWC).  1Corresponding author.  E-mail address:  david_mushet@usgs.govNOTESPrairie Naturalist 39:2 (June 2007), pp. 107-110.108 The Prairie Naturalist 39(2): June 2007LITERATURE CITEDChordas, S. W., III, and B. J. Armitage.  1998.  New Ohio records of Corixidae(Hemiptera). Entomological News 109:339-342.Chordas, S. W., III, E. G. Chapman, P. L. Hudson, M. A. Chriscinske, and R. L.Stewart, Jr.  2002.  New mid-western state records of aquatic Hemiptera(Corixidae: Notonectidae). Entomological News 113:310-314.Cochran, B. G., and G. L. Harp.  1990.  The aquatic macroinvertebrates of the St.Francis Sunken Lands in northeast Arkansas.  Proceedings of the ArkansasAcademy of Science 44:23-27.  Figure 1.  Recorded North American distribution of Corisella inscripta (Uhler).The star (*) indicates new records reported herein.109Euliss, N. H., Jr., D. A. Wrubleski, and D. M. Mushet.  1999.  Invertebrates inwetlands of the Prairie Pothole Region: invertebrate species composition,ecology, and management.  Pp. 471-514 in Invertebrates in freshwaterwetlands of North America: ecology and management (D. P. Batzer, R. B.Rader, and S. A. Wissinger, editors).  John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York,New York.Hungerford, H. B.  1948.  The Corixidae of the Western Hemisphere (Hemiptera).University of Kansas Science Bulletin 32:1-827.Corisella inscripta C. tarsalis     C. inscripta Figure 2.  Corisella inscripta (Uhler), habitus, male. Cottonwood Lake Study Area,Stutsman County, North Dakota.  Tibia and pala of male C. inscripta and C.tarsalis (Fieber).  Note the stout, erect pegs (indicated by arrows) below the apexof the tibia and in the upper palar peg row of C. tarsalis.NOTES110 The Prairie Naturalist 39(2): June 2007Maw, H. E. L., R. G. Foottit, K. G. A. Hamilton, and G. G. E. Scudder.  2000.Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska.  NRC Research Press,Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.Polhemus, J. T., R. C. Froeschner, and D. A. Polhemus.  1988.  Family CorixidaeLeach, 1815, the water boatman. Pp. 93-120 in Catalog of the Heteroptera, ortrue bugs, of Canada and the continental United States (T. J. Henry and R. C.Froeschner, editors).  E. J. Brill, New York, New York.Roemhild, G.  1976.  The aquatic Heteroptera (true bugs) of Montana.  MontanaAgricultural Experiment Station, Research Report 102. Bozeman, Montana.Stewart, R. E., and H. A. Kantrud.  1971.  Classification of natural ponds and lakesin the glaciated prairie region.  United States Fish and Wildlife ServiceResource Publication No. 92, Washington, District of Columbia.Swanson, G. A.  1978.  Funnel trap for collecting littoral aquatic invertebrates.Progressive Fish-Culturist 40:73.Swanson, G. A., N. H. Euliss, Jr., B. A. Hanson, and D. M. Mushet.  2003.Dynamics of a prairie pothole wetland complex: implications for wetlandmanagement.  Pp. 55-94 in Hydrological, chemical, and biological characteris-tics of a prairie pothole wetland complex under highly variable climateconditions - the Cottonwood Lake area, east-central North Dakota (T. C.Winter, editor).  United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1675,Denver, Colorado.van der Valk, A. G., and C. B. Davis.  1978.  The role of seed banks in thevegetation dynamics of prairie glacial marshes.  Ecology 59:322-335.Winter, T. C., and D. O. Rosenberry.  1998.  Hydrology of prairie pothole wetlandsduring drought and deluge: a 17-year study of the Cottonwood Lake wetlandcomplex in North Dakota in the perspective of longer term measured andproxy hydrological records.  Climatic Change 40:189-209.Received:  14 March 2007          Accepted:  6 September 2007Associate Editor for Invertebrate Zoology:  Richard J. Packauskas

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FIRST RECORD OF CORISELLA INSCRIPT A (UHLER) (HETEROPTERA: 
CORIXlDAE) FROM NORTH DAKOTA -- Corisella inscripta is a water 
boatman species that was reported in H. B. Hungerford's (1948) seminal mono-
graph as occurring throughout Mexico and nine western states of the United 
States. Subsequently, additional records of C. inscripta have been reported for 
British Columbia in Canada (Maw et al. 2000) and for Montana (Roemhild 1976), 
Arkansas (Cochran and Harp 1990), Missouri (Polhemus et al. 1988), Ohio (Chordas 
and Armitage 1998), and Michigan (Chordas et al. 2002) in the United States. There 
have been no published records of C. inscripta from North Dakota (Fig. I). 
We collected one male C. inscripta at the Cottonwood Lake Study Area in 
western Stutsman County, North Dakota in September 2005 and a second 
individual there in September 2006. The specimens were captured in funnel traps 
(Swanson 1978) set in the deep-marsh zone of a semipermanent wetland (Stewart 
and Kantrud 1971). A detailed description of the Cottonwood Lake Study Area is 
published in Swanson et al. (2003). As is typical for wetlands in the northern Great 
Plains, this wetland has fluctuated between wet and dry phases. At the time of 
sampling, the wetland was in the lake marsh phase (van der Valk and Davis 1978) 
and had been flooded continuouslt for 13 to 14 years, during an unusually long 
period of above-normal precipitation (Winter and Rosenberry 1998). In 2005, the 
water temperature was 18°C and specific conductance was 3011 flS cm·! at the 
collection site where the first C. inscripta specimen was collected. In 2006, water 
temperature was 14°C and specific conductance was 4010 flS cm-! at the site where 
the second C. inscripta specimen was collected. Both emergent and submergent 
aquatic vegetation were absent at the sample locations and throughout most of the 
wetland due to the prolonged deep-water flooding. However, stands of emergent 
vegetation including broadleaf cattail (Typha latifolia), hard stem bulrush 
(Schoenoplectus acutus), common rivergrass (Scolochloa festucacea), and wheat 
sedge (Carex atherodes) occurred around the wetland edge. 
Only one other species of Corisella, C. tarsalis (Fieber), is known to occur in the 
Prairie Pothole Region of the northern Great Plains (Euliss et al. 1999). Corisella 
inscripta males are easily distinguished from C. tarsalis males by the stout, erect pegs 
below the apex of the tibia and on the pala of C. tarsalis (Fig. 2). The C. inscripta 
specimens reported here from the Cottonwood Lake Study Area are conserved in the 
aquatic invertebrate collection at the United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie 
Wildlife Research Center in Jamestown, North Dakota. 
We thank Jane E. Austin, Lawrence D. Igl, and Jill A. Shaffer for reviewing earlier 
drafts of our note.--Bruce A. Hanson, David M Mushetl, Ned H. Euliss, Jr., and Steve 
W Chordas III. United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research 
Center, 8711 37th Street SE, Jamestown, ND 58401 (BAH. DMM NHE, Jr.). Ohio 
State University, Museum of Biological Diversity, 1315 Kinnear Road, Columbus, OH 
43212 (SWC). 'Corresponding author. E-mail address: david_mushet@usgs.gov 
108 The Prairie Naturalist 39(2): June 2007 
Figure 1. Recorded North American distribution of Corisella inscripta (Uhler). 
The star (*) indicates new records reported herein. 
LITERATURE CITED 
Chordas, S. W., III, and B. 1. Armitage. 1998. New Ohio records of Corixidae 
(Hemiptera). Entomological News 109:339-342. 
Chordas, S. W., III, E. G. Chapman, P. L. Hudson, M. A. Chriscinske, and R. L. 
Stewart, lr. 2002. New mid-western state records of aquatic Hemiptera 
(Corixidae: Notonectidae). Entomological News 113 :31 0-314. 
Cochran, B. G., and G. L. Harp. 1990. The aquatic macroinvertebrates of the st. 
Francis Sunken Lands in northeast Arkansas. Proceedings of the Arkansas 
Academy of Science 44:23-27. 
NOTES 109 
Corisella inscripta 
C. inscripta 
Figure 2. Corise fla inscripta (Uhler), habitus, male. Cottonwood Lake Study Area, 
Stutsman County, North Dakota. Tibia and pala of male C. inscripta and C. 
tarsalis (Fieber) . Note the stout, erect pegs (indicated by arrows) be low the apex 
of the tibia and in the upper palar peg row of C. tarsalis . 
Euliss, N. H. , Jr. , D. A. Wrubleski , and D. M. Mushet. 1999. invertebrates in 
wetlands of the Prairie Pothole Region: invertebrate species composition, 
ecology, and management. Pp. 471-514 in Invertebrates in freshwater 
wetlands of North America: ecology and management (D. P. Batzer, R. B. 
Rader, and S. A. Wissinger, editors). John Wiley and Sons, Inc. , New York, 
New York. 
Hungerford, H. B. 1948. The Corixidae of the Western Hemisphere (Hemiptera). 
University of Kansas Science Bulletin 32: 1-827. 
110 The Prairie Naturalist 39(2): June 2007 
Maw, H. E. L., R. G. Foottit, K. G. A. Hamilton, and G. G. E. Scudder. 2000. 
Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska. NRC Research Press, 
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 
Polhemus, J. T., R. C. Froeschner, and D. A. Polhemus. 1988. Family Corixidae 
Leach, 1815, the water boatman. Pp. 93-120 in Catalog of the Heteroptera, or 
true bugs, of Canada and the continental United States (T. 1. Henry and R. C. 
Froeschner, editors). E.1. Brill, New York, New York. 
Roemhild, G. 1976. The aquatic Heteroptera (true bugs) of Montana. Montana 
Agricultural Experiment Station, Research Report 102. Bozeman, Montana. 
Stewart, R. E., and H. A. Kantrud. 1971. Classification of natural ponds and lakes 
in the glaciated prairie region. United States Fish and Wildlife Service 
Resource Publication No. 92, Washington, District of Columbia. 
Swanson, G. A. 1978. Funnel trap for collecting littoral aquatic invertebrates. 
Progressive Fish-Culturist 40:73. 
Swanson, G. A., N. H. Euliss, Jr., B. A. Hanson, and D. M. Mushet. 2003. 
Dynamics of a prairie pothole wetland complex: implications for wetland 
management. Pp. 55-94 in Hydrological, chemical, and biological characteris-
tics of a prairie pothole wetland complex under highly variable climate 
conditions - the Cottonwofild Lake area, east-central North Dakota (T. C. 
Winter, editor). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1675, 
Denver, Colorado. 
van der Valk, A. G., and C. B. Davis. 1978. The role of seed banks in the 
vegetation dynamics of prairie glacial marshes. Ecology 59:322-335. 
Winter, T. c., and D. O. Rosenberry. 1998. Hydrology of prairie pothole wetlands 
during drought and deluge: a 17 -year study of the Cottonwood Lake wetland 
complex in North Dakota in the perspective of longer tenn measured and 
proxy hydrological records. Climatic Change 40: 189-209. 
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FIRST RECORD OF CORISELLA INSCRIPTA (UHLER) (HETEROPTERA:
CORIXIDAE) FROM NORTH DAKOTA -- Corisella inscripta is a water
boatman species that was reported in H. B. Hungerford’s (1948) seminal mono-
graph as occurring throughout Mexico and nine western states of the United
States.  Subsequently, additional records of C. inscripta have been reported for
British Columbia in Canada (Maw et al. 2000) and for Montana (Roemhild 1976),
Arkansas (Cochran and Harp 1990), Missouri (Polhemus et al. 1988), Ohio (Chordas
and Armitage 1998), and Michigan (Chordas et al. 2002) in the United States.  There
have been no published records of C. inscripta from North Dakota (Fig. 1).
We collected one male C. inscripta at the Cottonwood Lake Study Area in
western Stutsman County, North Dakota in September 2005 and a second
individual there in September 2006.  The specimens were captured in funnel traps
(Swanson 1978) set in the deep-marsh zone of a semipermanent wetland (Stewart
and Kantrud 1971).  A detailed description of the Cottonwood Lake Study Area is
published in Swanson et al. (2003).  As is typical for wetlands in the northern Great
Plains, this wetland has fluctuated between wet and dry phases.  At the time of
sampling, the wetland was in the lake marsh phase (van der Valk and Davis 1978)
and had been flooded continuously for 13 to 14 years, during an unusually long
period of above-normal precipitation (Winter and Rosenberry 1998).  In 2005, the
water temperature was 18°C and specific conductance was 3011 µS cm-1 at the
collection site where the first C. inscripta specimen was collected.  In 2006, water
temperature was 14°C and specific conductance was 4010 µS cm-1 at the site when
the second C. inscripta specimen was collected.  Both emergent and submergent
aquatic vegetation were absent at the sample locations and throughout most of the
wetland due to the prolonged deep-water flooding.  However, stands of emergent
vegetation including broadleaf cattail (Typha latifolia), hardstem bulrush
(Schoenoplectus acutus), common rivergrass (Scolochloa festucacea), and wheat
sedge (Carex atherodes) occurred around the wetland edge.
Only one other species of Corisella, C. tarsalis (Fieber), is known to occur in the
Prairie Pothole Region of the northern Great Plains (Euliss et al. 1999).  Corisella
inscripta males are easily distinguished from C. tarsalis males by the stout, erect pegs
below the apex of the tibia and on the pala of C. tarsalis (Fig. 2).  The C. inscripta
specimens reported here from the Cottonwood Lake Study Area are conserved in the
aquatic invertebrate collection at the United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie
Wildlife Research Center in Jamestown, North Dakota.
We thank Jane E. Austin, Lawrence D. Igl, and Jill A. Shaffer for reviewing earlier
drafts of our note.--Bruce A. Hanson, David M. Mushet1, Ned H. Euliss, Jr., and Steve
W. Chordas III.  United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research
Center, 8711 37th Street SE, Jamestown, ND 58401 (BAH, DMM, NHE, Jr.).  Ohio
State University, Museum of Biological Diversity, 1315 Kinnear Road, Columbus, OH
43212 (SWC).  1Corresponding author.  E-mail address:  david_mushet@usgs.gov
NOTES
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Received:  14 March 2007          Accepted:  6 September 2007
Associate Editor for Invertebrate Zoology:  Richard J. Packauskas


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First Record of \u3ci\u3eCorisella inscripta\u3c/i\u3e (Uhler) (Heteroptera: Corixidae) from North Dakota

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