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Eulonchus cf. sapphirinus - Eulonchus sapphirinus

Eulonchus cf. sapphirinus - Eulonchus sapphirinus
SFSU Field Campus, just east of Bassetts, Sierra County, California, USA
July 11, 2011
Collected and mounted by a fellow student at the 2011 Field Entomology class at San Francisco State University's Sierra Nevada Field Campus. I believe it was taken while nectaring on flowers of pussypaws (Calyptridium monospermum).

The bright yellow legs and yellow-pubescent, metallic blue-green body remind me of Eulonchus sapphirinus...but the proboscis is much too short. However, it occurs to me that a portion of it may have been inadvertently broken off during capture, transportation, or pinning.

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Moved
Moved from Eulonchus.

Of the described species
Of the described species, Eulonchus sapphirinus is a good candidate for this specimen. I would agree that the proboscis is most likely damaged.

 
Thanks Dennis :-)
"Of the described species"...Good point!!

As you and others have previously noted, Eulonchus has a goodly number of currently known but formally undescribed and/or unpublished taxa. And there are probably more plain old 'unknown' taxa out there as well! :-)

By the way, I just posted another acrocerid from that field class...think you may like it. (Though my photos aren't as clear as I'd like.)

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