canis complex

photos that not conclusively identified to species based on genitalia should be kept here

Included here are Laphria canis, L. sicula, L. winnemana, at least two undescribed eastern species, plus L. franciscana (western, identifiable based on range). One of the undescribed eastern species was confused with franciscana in the past. Bullington (unpublished thesis, 1986), considered L. sicula, L. ithypyga, and another undescribed species to be members of Choerades based on genitalic structure, while he moved the remaining species in this group plus L. index and L. scorpio to a new genus.

7−12 mm; some up to 16 mm ―Herschel Raney's comment.

females may be impossible to distinguish from photographs.

Antennae help distinguish from the plumper Atomosia

prefer the understory leaf tops of low plants. Rarely found away from tree cover.

Summer

Atomosia spp. −also small and dark