Observación realizada por Lisandro Mora y Fernando Lezama en el predio propiedad de la Comunidad Cofan Chandia Na'en en Ecuador. Programa de biodiversidad de Jhony López. Identificada por Ana Isabel López Rojas y Jhony López.
Observation made by Lisandro Mora and Fernando Lezama in the property owned by the Cofan Chandia Na'en Community in Ecuador. Biodiversity program by Jhony López. Identified by Ana Isabel López Rojas and Jhony López.
Original description of Caliodesmus from/Descripcion original de:
Chamberlin, R. V. (1952). Some American Polydesmid Millipeds in the collection of the Chicago Museum of Natural History. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 45(4): 553-584.
Images of specimen from the Field Museum, Chicago/Imagenes del especimen en el Museo Field en Chicago: https://collections-zoology.fieldmuseum.org/catalogue/955607
These bees come exclusively to a dwarf Barbados Cherry bush in my front yard. It is surrounded by other flowers, but the whole bush itself has been buzzing with these bees for almost a month, since it began blooming.
First two images mine.
Third and fourth images taken from Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte by Felder and Rogenhofer, 1875, Table 135.
https://archive.org/details/umdieerdeindenja03akad/page/n376/mode/1up?view=theater
Fifth image is Figure 20 from page 369 of:
Monroe, Eugene. “New Genera and Soecies of Pyralidae (Lepidoptera)” The Canadian Entomologist, Volume 91 Issue 6, June 1959. Pp 359-371.
I can't seem to find this moth - the closest I have been able to get is the Zigzag Herpetogramma, but it doesn't look like they are regular in Texas. Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Un guia Ticuna nos dijo que es un saltamontes o algo parecido. Pensé que era un disfraz, pero creo que algo era perdido en traducción, y probablemente es un hongo? (Ot)ra observacion: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/144163655
Seen in the same place as this one, tentatively ID’ed as the same: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/18070672
@nomolosx - dang - I didn’t recognize this as the one that needs collecting until now, the morning after. I’ll set up my sheet again tonight to see if I can collect it.
Looks closest to this one?
http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=5694
Looks closest to this one?
https://bugguide.net/node/view/1196137
http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=5694
@nomolosx - I often have a hard time distinguishing Excultanus from Paraphlepsius. Neither shows up anywhere near on INat, besides some Paraphlepsius on the other side of the Rockies.
I’m not sure if they were all the same species, but there were many similar-looking moths all along my hike. I probably saw around 20 in flowers along the path.
When I saw the length of this snout, I thought sure it was going to be microrhina but the pattern of ridges on the upper and underside of the face are a better match to recurva. I collected this specimen specifically to be able to get close-up images of the front of the face (3rd and 4th pics). I'll turn this specimen over to someone later for DNA analysis. (@pfau_tarleton, interested?)
@gcwarbler and @greglasley - does this seem like it could be correct? Looks much more like C. numa than anything else I can find. (Though I'm sure if it is a bunch of others will find them in the next few days at their own lights!)
References:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/247467/bgimage
http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=9013