Pictetiella lechleitneri

endemic to a single state or province

United States

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Present

Confidence: Confident

Type of Residency: Year-round

Global Range: (<100 square km (less than about 40 square miles)) Recently described from a male, female, and single nymph collected from Carbon River, Mount Rainier National Park, Pierce Co., Washington (Stark and Kondratieff, 2004).

The epiproct of Pictetiella lechleitneri is shorter and broader near the apex than in Pictetiella expansa, and the color pattern is more striking with conspicuous femoral bands and broad U-shaped posteromesal sternal patches on abdominal segments 5-8. The female subgenital plate structure is very similar to P. expansa but the female can probably be separated by the banded femoral character. Eggs of P. expansa have the lid expanded into a hoodlike structure that is much smaller in P. lechletnieri. In addition, the ventral concavity around the collar orifice is completely smooth in P. lechleitneri, but has a cluster of irregular ridges in P. expansa. The nymph of P. lechleitneri differs from P. expansa most conspicuously by the paired pale tergal patches on abdominal segments 2-10 (Stark and Kondratieff, 2005).

Non-Migrant: No. All populations of this species make significant seasonal migrations.

Locally Migrant: No. No populations of this species make local extended movements (generally less than 200 km) at particular times of the year (e.g., to breeding or wintering grounds, to hibernation sites).

Locally Migrant: No. No populations of this species make annual migrations of over 200 km.

Note: For many non-migratory species, occurrences are roughly equivalent to populations.

Estimated Number of Occurrences: 1 - 5

Comments: Recently described from a male, female, and single nymph collected from Carbon River, Mount Rainier National Park, Pierce Co., Washington (Stark and Kondratieff, 2004).

Unknown

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: N2 - Imperiled

Rounded Global Status Rank: G2 - Imperiled

Reasons: Recently described from a male, female, and single nymph collected from Mount Rainier National Park, Pierce Co., Washington (Stark and Kondratieff, 2004).

Global Short Term Trend: Unknown

Comments: Recently described.

Global Long Term Trend: Unknown

Comments: Recently described.

Degree of Threat: Unknown

Global Protection: Few (1-3) occurrences appropriately protected and managed

Comments: Recently described from a male, female, and single nymph collected from Carbon River, Mount Rainier National Park, Pierce Co., Washington (Stark and Kondratieff, 2004).