Stephanucha - Euphoria pilipennis

Thanks for the nudge

Moved from Euphoria. This is indeed Euphoria pilipennis, using key in (1).

… Brad Barnd, 20 May, 2024 - 10:01pm

great to know!

feels nice to discover i'm no longer a total dummy (which i still was last Friday) as this genus is concerned... my delving into them was triggered by a specimen submitted with a daycare-level Ento student collection.
going thru these boxfulls of miscurated bugs is easily the most tedious part of my job, but that euphoric thing was unusually small (hardly larger than your average kernii), black, and totally unmarked, unlike the dime-a-hundred sepulc... so i decided to try the revision, got to devulsa, checked the main collection to my satisfaction, and decided to sort out the unidentified material, mostly neotropical... had a good time, found ~20 spp., will finish tomorrow

… v belov, 20 May, 2024 - 11:13pm

that sounds fun!

TAMUIC probably has a pretty good representation of the genus too

… Brad Barnd, 20 May, 2024 - 11:47pm

Looks like E. areata...

Looks like E. areata...

http://bugguide.net/node/view/57375

… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 21 October, 2015 - 6:55pm

it does, but Kimble Co is too far west... clypeus is diagnostic

pilipennis is the most likely member of this species-group present in the area; should be easy to key out on (1) p.98

… v belov, 19 May, 2024 - 9:43pm

Moved

Moved from Stephanucha.

… Phillip Harpootlian, 2 August, 2008 - 1:56pm

from texas -

S. annae and S. pilipennis are listed. Also, Stephanucha thoracica Casey, 1915 is now a junior synonym of S. areata (Fabricius, 1775) (1)

… Phillip Harpootlian, 5 January, 2007 - 8:26pm

thanks

… Brad Barnd, 7 February, 2007 - 5:55pm

S. annae probably

process of elimination - we now have pilipennis in the guide

… Phillip Harpootlian, 19 September, 2008 - 10:40am

annae vs pilipennis

This should be one of these two species. Both are now pictured in the guide, but it is not clear to which species this belongs. Markings seem to be intermediate between the two.

… Brad Barnd, 30 January, 2011 - 4:21pm