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Usingeriessa sp. - Usingeriessa onyxalis
Copyright © 2012 Chuck Sexton

Usingeriessa sp. - Usingeriessa onyxalis
Cold Springs Camp, Uvalde County, Texas, USA
November 16, 2012
Size: FW 7mm
Photographed at a porchlight adjacent to heavily wooded floodplain (live oak-hackberry-bald cypress) on the Frio River in the Texas Hill Country. The same individual was photographed again the next evening at same location.

This differs from a Travis County record in the amount of dark gray color in the FW median area and in the HW pattern, so I don't want to presuppose it to be U. brunnildalis. The available online images of U. onyxalis are too diverse to help with ID. For example, see a Chiapas specimen at BOLD here and a spread specimen from Tabasco here.

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Contributed by Chuck Sexton on 22 November, 2012 - 10:20am
Last updated 7 October, 2017 - 9:15pm

Moved to Usingeriessa onyxalis
Moved from Usingeriessa brunnildalis. Two main lines of evidence now suggest that all of the Texas images of this genus belong in U. onyxalis:

1. Two specimens from Edwards Co. (A. Hendrickson), including this example, submitted for barcoding cluster closely within a long series of U. onyxalis from Costa Rica; BOLD BIN AAA0337.

2. All of the Texas images (Edwards, Kendall, Kimble, Uvalde, and Travis Cos.) closely match the description of U. onyxalis in Munroe's fascicle on the subfamily (1) as well as Dyar's 1906 description(2) of "Elophila cancellalis" from nearby Val Verde Co., TX, which Munroe synonymized with U. onyxalis.(1)
… Chuck Sexton, 7 October, 2017 - 9:16pm login or register to post comments

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