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Black Corsair - Melanolestes picipes - female
Copyright © 2021 Silas J. Eckhardt

Black Corsair - Melanolestes picipes - Female
8706 Quaker Ln., Bon Air , Chesterfield County, Virginia, USA
December 13, 2021
Female, seeing as it has no wings. This specimen has a variation I have never seen in M. picipes, but heard of. The red edges on the abdomen. I have collected 2 specimens in this same location (my school), and both are male, and both are all black. I have seen this variation in Eric R. Eaton's Bug Eric blog.

This is one of the males:
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Contributed by Silas J. Eckhardt on 13 December, 2021 - 7:57pm
Last updated 14 December, 2021 - 8:09pm

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