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Member of Laphria canis complex - Laphria canis - female
Copyright © 2006 Cotinis

Member of Laphria canis complex - Laphria canis - Female
Fews Ford section, Eno River State Park, Orange County, North Carolina, USA
July 3, 2006
Size: circa 12 mm
This petite robber allowed close approach. Size guess-timated. It looks to be dining on a tumbling flower beetle. Is this a Laphria canis? I'm not quite clear how to recognize that group and differentiate it from some other small, dark robbers.
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Contributed by Cotinis on 27 July, 2006 - 5:38pm
Last updated 27 July, 2006 - 9:42pm

Female
Difficult to separate canis females from sicula and winnemana. Males have the much larger terminal genitalic bulb. L sicula and winneman require a scope to separate from each other.
… Herschel Raney, 27 July, 2006 - 7:21pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, complex
I think we have everything filed under "Laphria canis complex" here. So sicula and winneman would be part of that I presume?

I'll move to the complex unless you think that is a real faux pas.

Thanks, as always. We'd almost all be lost in Robber-land without you.
… Cotinis, 27 July, 2006 - 7:40pm login or register to post comments

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