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Photo#2229001
Pennsylvania Insect for ID - Lomamyia

Pennsylvania Insect for ID - Lomamyia
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
October 4, 2013
On a sheet with a Bioiquip UV black light.

Moved
Moved from Lomamyia flavicornis.

I'm going to go back on this one. While Pennsylvania does only have reports for L. flavicornis in the literature, L. banksi is known to extend up to New York and, to my understanding, is virtually impossible to distinguish without dissection of genitalia or DNA barcoding.

Moved
Moved from Lomamyia.

Very tentative - this is currently the only species reported in the state.

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

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