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Cymindis sp. - Cymindis platicollis
Copyright © 2009 Mike Quinn

Cymindis sp. - Cymindis platicollis
Chaparral Wildlife Management Area, 8 mi w. of Artesia Wells on FM 133, La Salle & Dimmit County, Texas, USA
April 25, 2009
Det. E. G. Riley 2009
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Contributed by Mike Quinn on 7 May, 2009 - 9:42pm
Last updated 10 March, 2024 - 1:54am

Moved
Moved from limbata group.
… v belov, 10 March, 2024 - 1:54am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Subgenus Pinacodera.
… v belov, 10 March, 2024 - 12:01am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Cymindis.
… v belov, 1 April, 2014 - 1:10pm login or register to post comments

Cymindis - subgenus Pinacodera
My feeling is that image is most consistent with C. platicollis -- widely distributed including TX. Image compares well to my several reference specimens which differ from the four (Bousquet & Larochelle, 1993) other known Texan Pinacodera as follows:
C. complanata with rufous forebody [per Lindroth]; C. punctifera [see syn. "Lebia punctifera" at MCZ] with dense coarse punctures on forebody ; C. punctigera [see "Cymindis punctigera" at MCZ] with less coarse punctae but legs relatively dark; C. limbata with humeral pale stripe. Note that I give the correct species spellings based on the now accepted Latin feminine gender of "Cymindis" and "Pinacodera". MCZ refers to the searchable database for photographs of type specimens.
… Peter W. Messer, 8 May, 2009 - 9:51pm login or register to post comments

 
taxonomic note
Current trend (Wolfgang Lorenz 2005, Terry Erwin in forthcoming publication) is to move Pinacodera to genus status.
… Peter W. Messer, 11 May, 2009 - 12:58pm login or register to post comments

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