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Male? - Trirhabda eriodictyonis - male
Copyright © 2012 Aaron Schusteff

Male? - Trirhabda eriodictyonis - Male
Pine Mountain, off Hwy CA-33, north of Ojai, Los Padres National Forest, Ventura County, California, USA
July 10, 2010
This keys to T. eriodictyonis. It's a male, due to the the relatively wide "hour-glass" shaped occipital spot...see remarks under the post in the 1st of the two thumbnails below, which are both from the same local population and were all found on Eriodictyon trichocalyx var. trichocalyx:



Elsewhere on the mountain, on the same afternoon, I saw T. eriodictyonis on a different species of its "Yerba Santa" host plant genus, namely Eriodictyon crassifolium var. nigrescens:

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Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 5 January, 2012 - 2:40am
Last updated 8 July, 2020 - 10:59pm

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