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Ectopsocus female - Ectopsocus - female
Copyright © 2019 California Academy of Sciences, photo K Schneider

Ectopsocus female - Ectopsocus - Female
Presidio, Dragonfly Creek, San Francisco County, California, USA
August 27, 2019
Size: FW length 3.0 mm
Caught in Malaise trap 24-31 August 2019. This subgenital plate seems a little different than my prior briggsi, with the arms less inwardly curved?

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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 28 December, 2019 - 12:22pm

Your image of the ventral abdomen ...
does not show the apical lobes of the subgenital plate well enough to decide whether they are "decidedly curved inward" or not. You might take another look at this specimen. The wing patter does look like briggsi, though.
… Diane Young, 30 December, 2019 - 8:57am

Wing spots -
faint and clypeus without much contrast point to E. briggsi? I've been looking at Mockford 1959 and it points pretty strongly to some somatic characters that separate briggsi from californicus that I hope are still accurate?
… Ken Schneider, 29 December, 2019 - 7:52pm

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