TAXONOMIC NOTE: G. coccinea could perhaps best be treated as a species complex. It has been a bit of a taxonomic mess for a long time since different authors treat it differently- some authors consider G. teliformis [and G. picta, in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, as well as G. idonea in Central America] as separate species, but most authors treat these as synonyms of G. coccinea. Young (1977) could not find any consistent morphological differences among the various species that he treated as synonyms of coccinea (including teliformis and picta). However, Hamilton (1985) resurrected these two forms to species level based on differences in the shape and sizes of apodemes at the base of the male abdomen, as well as some differences in size and coloration. Per several taxonomic authors in the field, these differences are a bit trivial and do not seem very clear cut (particularly with the apodemes), and morphological data is weak due to overlap between these forms/species in both measurements and color patterns (as mentioned, there are intermediates in this species). Additionally, there is no difference in genetic barcoding between coccinea, picta and teliformis. For these various reasons, we will follow most taxonomic authors in treating teliformis as a synonym of G. coccinea. Perhaps future work on this species 'complex' will shed some additional light, but for the time being it seems coccinea is a highly variable species across the entire spectrum of its range.