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Hydrotaea succedens? - Hydrotaea - female

Hydrotaea succedens? - Hydrotaea - Female
Jay B. Starkey Wilderness Park, Pasco County, Florida, USA
February 14, 2020
Is this species still valid? It couldn't stop wanting to crawl on me, supposedly typical of Hydrotaea.

Anepimeron bare, hind tibia without submedian dorsal bristle, hind coxa bare, base of vein R4+5 bare, M straight, at least one presutural dorsocentral bristle moderately strong (both are subequal in length), katepisternum appears to have only 2 bristles (difficult to capture), parafacial mostly bare, female, anteriormost orbital bristle proclinate, hind tibia with less than 2 posterodorsal bristles, longest aristal hairs not longer than basal diameter of arista.

Yellow palpi, femora, tibiae, and base of the abdomen appears to automatically point to H. succedens by Hucket (1954).

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