Genus Saica

SAY-kuh

Saica Amyot & Serville 1843

1-2 spp. in our area(1); S. apicalis may not actually occur in the US (known from a single record in so. TX)

S. elkinsi 7-9 mm, S. apicalis 13-14 mm

Saica may be separated from Pseudosaica in having the process of the lower anterior pronotal angle acute to subacute, the second antennomere subequal to one-half the length of the scape, the process of the male pygophore bifurcate, and the posterior margin of the seventh female sternite vertical to subvertical.

Pseudosaica has the process of the lower anterior pronotal angles subconical, the second antennomere subequal to one-third the length of the scape, the process of the male pygophore with a single erect barbless spine and the posterior margin of the seventh female sternite sloping ventrad (Blinn 1990, 1994, 2008)

so. US to South America