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Acmaeodera connexa
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Copyright © 2014
Hartmut Wisch
Acmaeodera -
Acmaeodera connexa
Off Angeles Crest Highway, elev. 1524 m, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California, USA
May 19, 2007
Visiting
Eriodictyon parryi
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Photographed 8 seconds prior to another beetle that looks like
A. connexa
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Contributed by
Hartmut Wisch
on 22 July, 2014 - 3:36pm
Last updated 25 July, 2014 - 10:59am
Plant genus
This is now placed in the genus
Turricula
(fide USDA Plants Database).
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Richard L. Westcott
, 25 July, 2014 - 11:09am
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Thanks, Richard,
for the beetle ID.
With the plant its the other way around.
The 1909 edition of Jepson's "A Flora of California" listed this plant as
Eriodictyon parryi
Greene. 1925 edition:
Turricula parryi
(A. Gray) J.F. Macbr.
After recent molecular work it became
Eriodictyon parryi
(A. Gray) Greene. Also, whereas this genus used to be in Hydrophyllaceae, it is now placed with Boraginaceae. Quite a number of nomenclatural changes recently on the plant side.
Evidently, not all websites have been updated.
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Hartmut Wisch
, 25 July, 2014 - 3:12pm
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Generic name
I returned to USDA and now see they treated
Turricula
as a synonym; however, The Plant List (Kew Gardens) accepts it as the correct name. Further reading shows a molecular study that supports that view but, as you indicated, another such analysis favors
Eriodictyon
. Clearly there is discord among plant taxonomists...something that, of course, does not occur with beetle taxonomists. :-)
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Richard L. Westcott
, 25 July, 2014 - 3:32pm
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Certain insects, i.e. Pseudomasaris wheeleri,
never seemed to have any doubt that
Eriodictyon
was the place to gather pollen. I've found them consistently on both the old Yerba Santa (all in
Eriodictyon
), as well as in
E. parryi
. :-)
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Hartmut Wisch
, 25 July, 2014 - 3:49pm
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Moved
Moved from
Acmaeodera
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Richard L. Westcott
, 25 July, 2014 - 10:59am
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