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true bug - Catorhintha selector

true bug - Catorhintha selector
Sycamore Canyon, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
August 3, 2009

Catorhintha selector --det. J. Botz
"This is clear from the continuous ivory stripe along the dorsolateral edge of the abdomen. They also have entirely black antennae, so they're not C. texana."

Moved

Difficult to say...
this could just as easily be C. selector (vs. C. guttula). I can't see a lateral spine on the antenniferous tubercle; this character would allow for easy separation between the two species (prominent lateral spine in guttula, small or obsolete spine in selector). Selector's also a little bigger at 9-12mm vs 8-9mm in guttula. I'm leaning toward selector but can't definitively tell from this image alone.

Moved tentatively
prima facie, same as

Moved from True Bugs.

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