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unknown ichneumon - Labena grallator
Copyright © 2010 Mark H Brown

unknown ichneumon - Labena grallator
Superstition Wilderness Area, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
October 15, 2010
Size: 2 cm body length
Contributed by Mark H Brown on 11 November, 2010 - 12:17am
Last updated 11 November, 2010 - 9:04am

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Townes described this color variant as the subspecies ochreata. Four subspecies were recognized, grallator in most of the North American range and westward to Colorado, balteata in southern Texas, xutha in Colorado and New Mexico, ochreata in Arizona, and lutea on the California border of Arizona. Some of these were known from only a few specimens. In the 1979 catalog, I concluded that the geographic variation of grallator does not seem conducive to the recognition of subspecies.

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