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Photo#453376
Panorpa - male

Panorpa - Male
Columbia, Grindstone Park, Boone County, Missouri, USA
September 9, 2010
Specimen was collected.

Moved

Absolutely not. Panorpa clar
Absolutely not. Panorpa claripennis has a boreal distribution.

This is most likely Panorpa speciosa, or less likely Panorpa anomala based on two two submarginal spots on the wings and the locality. A microscope would be needed to see the aedeagal humulus in the male genital bulb of Panorpa speciosa or the lack theteof in Panorpa anomala.

Could this be
Panorpa mirabilis (or something else), seems to have more black patches than all the rest.

Moved
Moved from Panorpa.

there's also a key to Illinois species
in the Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin 31. And it's at the MU library.

Key on genus page
There is a key to Ontario species linked from the genus page. You should have mostly the same species in Missouri (south Ontario is the north end of the monotonous Northeastern deciduous region, Missouri near the soutwest corner).

 
Awesome!
Thanks! I'll take the key in to my entomology class when I work with this and have a dissecting scope with me.

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