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The First Record of Hermatobates from the Marshall Islands (Heteroptera: Hermatobatidae) Clarifies the Geographic Range of H. palmyra

In their recent monograph of the marine bug genus Hermatobates, J. Polhemus & D. Polhemus (2013) described the new species H. palmyra from neuston tows taken offshore of Palmyra Atoll in the Line Islands. They also noted the existence of an additional series of specimens from Pagan Island, in the Northern Mariana Islands, that appeared to conform to this same species concept, but declined to include the Pagan specimens as paratypes given the 5,850 km distance between the two collecting localities. These authors stated: ‘‘We have also provisionally assigned our specimens from Pagan Island in the northern Mariana Islands to H. palmyra for the present, because they possess the distinctively concave posterior metasternum, a small and bidentate posteromedial metasternal process, and a basally incised fore tibia, but have not designated them as paratypes because of the significant geographic distance separating the two populations, which suggests that the Pagan population may eventually prove to be a distinct species once additional material is available for a more detailed evaluation. Collections from the intervening Marshall Islands would be very useful in resolving this question.’’ During recent sorting of unidentified backlog material in the J. T. Polhemus collection in Englewood, Colorado, a series of Hermatobates was located that had been taken at Eniwetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands in 1971. An examination of these specimens revealed them to match in all particulars the description given for H. palmyra in J. Polhemus & D. Polhemus (2013), with the same male fore tibial morphology and distinctively reduced, bidentate male metasternal process. In addition to being the first record of the family