Gurney's shieldback

Idiostatus gurneyi

(Note: Monroe County, Florida, includes the southwest portion of the tip of mainland Florida and the upper and lower keys. These three parts of that county are mapped separately in the "dot maps" but not in the computer-generated distribution maps, which are strictly at the county level.)

Ron Lyons was reading Rentz's 1973 publication The Shield-backed Katydids of the Genus Idiostatus and noticed there were three county records listed for this species (Siskiyou County, California and Klamath and Jackson Counties, Oregon; page 47) but only two records were on the map (page 43). He checked SINA's distribution map and saw that it too only had two records. He sent me an email in November 2023 to inform me about the missing record. I checked Tom Walker's spreadsheet, tblMain, which lists all species records from 2003 to 2008. The two counties listed for I. gurneyi were Klamath and Siskiyou. I created a new map for I. gurneyi with Jackson County added and updated the records database.
[Teresa Yawn, 17 December 2023]

Below is a map that shows Siskiyou, Klamath, and Jackson Counties and the three locations (red, blue, and green dots) within each county that are listed for I. gurneyi in Rentz 1973.

1) California, Siskiyou County: Condrey Peak, 10 September 1968 (G. M. Buxton, A. B. Gurney).

2) Oregon, Jackson County, Mt. Ashland: Alpine meadow, 2 September 1964, K. Goeden, alpine meadow; 6,500-7,100 feet elevation, 26 July 1966, P. Opler, J. Powell; picnic area, 1 mile West Ski Bowl, 6,500 ft. elev., 6 September 1968, D. C. & K. A. Rentz; summit 7,500 feet elevation, 1 September 1968, L. G. Gentner, K. Goeden, A. Gurney; and 5 miles below the summit, 1 September 1968, G. Gentner, K. Goeden, A. Gurney.

3) Oregon, Klamath County: Crater Lake, 14 September 1923 (L. P. Rockwood). Scott, 26 August 1928 (J. Rehn, M. Hebard).