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Paratype from the Cal Academy of Sciences - Pseudonomoneura nelsoni - male

Paratype from the Cal Academy of Sciences - Pseudonomoneura nelsoni - Male
7 miles northwest of Palm Springs, Riverside County, California, USA
September 7, 1971
Paratype specimen, collected by Nelson Papavero.
Part of the Joseph Wilcox Collection, gifted to the California Academy of Sciences.
Cal Academy ID #: CASENT 8244390

The original 1995 description of this species can be read at this BHL link.

For a live field image, see Greg Ballmer's photo here.

Note this is a sexually dimorphic species. Females have abdomen "globose" (i.e. somewhat inflated), are much less hairy, and are yellowish-brown in overall color: