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Curated specimen from the Essig Museum - Physoconops excisus - male

Curated specimen from the Essig Museum - Physoconops excisus - Male
Douglas County, Kansas, USA
June 17, 1951
Lateral view.

Note the strong pollinose stripe on the pleura, which extends from the mid-coxa below, to the edge of the dorsum at top. It is wider below the suture (i.e. on the sternopleuron), and narrowed above (i.e. on the mesopleuron). This is diagnostic of P. excisus...and also the otherwise very similar but overall more reddish P. townsendi, which is very closely related to P. excisis (perhaps they would both be better treated as subtaxa within a single species?).

Note also the pollinosity on the front femur, hind coxa, and of course as terminal bands on the abdominal tergites (the last being almost entirely pollinose).
Also worthy of note are the long, bright yellow puvilli contrasting strongly with the dark black tarsi...which is typical of many Physoconops.

This is a male...the female in P. excisus has an enormous conical-shaped theca pointing forward off the 5th sternite.

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