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Pedicia albivitta & Pedicia goldsworthyi

Dr. Jon Gelhaus and Stephen Mason from The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University informed me "Pedicia without a specimen can't be identified." in reply to my FaceBook posting of the image below. It seems the old method of sorting subgenus Pedicia by wing coloring has been nullified by the addition of a new species that has the same wing coloring as Pedicia albivitta and the description is based on male genitalia. I'm not sure if this will mess up the other species in the subgenus, but it seems that at least all images previously IDed as Pedicia albivitta should either be moved back to subgenus, or to a No Taxon page for "Pedicia albivitta or goldsworthyi" or maybe "Pedicia albivitta or goldsworthyi or margarita"
http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/ccw/documents/Petersen,_2006a.pdf
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Contributed by John R. Maxwell on 9 September, 2014 - 8:50am

Sorted
I sorted the "albivitta" into yes, no, and maybe groups. Most of them are on the albivitta+goldsworthyi page but a few males appeared to belong to one or the other species.
… John F. Carr, 9 June, 2019 - 10:34am login or register to post comments

New page
I made a page for the species pair: https://bugguide.net/node/view/1673082.
… John F. Carr, 9 June, 2019 - 9:02am login or register to post comments

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