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Genus Hesperoboreus

Boreid from mossy roadside bank - Hesperoboreus brevicaudus - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Mecoptera (Scorpionflies, Hangingflies, and Allies)

Family Boreidae (Snow Scorpionflies)

Genus Hesperoboreus

Explanation of Names

Hesperoboreus Penny 1977

Identification

Genus is distinguished from Boreus by males lacking outer forewing spurs; females with short tenth abdominal tergum (equal in length to ninth), and with caudal extensions and unfused cerci.(1)

Range

Pacific coast from Washington to California.

Works Cited

1.	A systematic study of the family Boreidae (Mecoptera) Penny, Norman D. 1977. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 51: 141-217.

Contributed by Ben Coulter on 16 March, 2018 - 6:50pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 17 May, 2018 - 7:31am

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