Smicrips Captiva Is, Lee County, Florida, USA March 23, 2008 Size: 1.9 mm
Found on flowers of a mimosa shrub- only on flowers that were several days old.
I cannot say whether this is Smicrips texana or palmicola. I have Casey's description of texana and this fits nicely, but most of his differences (from palmicola) are very qualitative. Texana is "rather less minute" (texana is 1.0-1.4mm). The FL '98 checklist says texana has been recorded from central FL, Indian River and palmicola from the south, Dade and Monroe. Mike Thomas shows palmicola from Highlands Co here in BugGuide.
Contributed by Rick Buss on 13 May, 2008 - 10:30am |