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Gyponini from Monahans Sandhills
Copyright © 2020 Sam Kieschnick

Gyponini from Monahans Sandhills
Monahans Sandhills State Park, Ward County, Texas, USA
July 8, 2020

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Contributed by Sam Kieschnick on 14 July, 2020 - 9:35pm

update
this is something other than P. delta, which we now have images for:


my only guess now would be a weird Gyponana and/or something undescribed
… Solomon Hendrix, 19 November, 2020 - 1:36pm login or register to post comments

for the record
this might be Planipona delta. I've been having trouble finding information on it and there are no illustrations I can find, but the description matches fairly well. That species was originally placed in Gyponana, but it is now (Freytag 2015) the sole member of the genus Planipona. It is an unmarked species (lacking the usual longitudinal stripes on the pronotum of Gyponana) that resembles G. angulata but is much more slender. It's found from Texas to Arizona and is apparently quite a common occurrence feeding on Snakeweed. I've seen other potential sightings of your species from Arizona on iNaturalist (photos of poorer quality).
… Solomon Hendrix, 17 September, 2020 - 11:14am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks -- hopefully some collections to come.
Solomon, thanks for the comments. I've mentioned it to a few folks that have gone to Monahans and black-lighted or collected to keep an eye out for this. Hopefully it will be further investigated with some more specimens!
… Sam Kieschnick, 17 September, 2020 - 10:11pm login or register to post comments

 
great!
would be awesome to have this paired up with a specimen
… Solomon Hendrix, 18 September, 2020 - 10:38pm login or register to post comments

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