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Copicerus irroratus - No Common Name

Copicerus irroratus
© Alina Martin		Copicerus irroratus
© Alina Martin- note antennae
Taxonomy
Family: DELPHACIDAESubfamily: AsiracinaeTribe: Asiracini
Taxonomic Author: Swartz, 1802
Identification
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Description: A distinctive species, with long, flattened antennae. The prothorax is often speckled brown and can be darker laterally. The mesothorax is bicolored, being pale medially and darker laterally. The frons is variously speckled, either sparsely or densely, with brown or is dark dorsally and paler ventrally. (UDEL)

For more images of this species, see: BG, UDEL, 3I.

Distribution in North Carolina
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Distribution: Eastern United States, as well as throughout Central and South America (UDEL)
Abundance: Recorded from a few counties across the state, with only one recent record; rare. This species is rarely encountered in numbers (UDEL).
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Comment: Copicerus is the only New World genus in the family with long, flattened antennae and a spine-like calcar (UDEL).

This species "has been historically called Copicerus irroratus Swartz, 1802, but the holotype of that species is from Cuba and is not the same entity as the species present in the eastern U.S." A future publication will likely resolve the taxonomic issue here and lead to a new species and name change for the taxon that is in the eastern U.S. (BG)

Status: Native
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Species Photo Gallery for Copicerus irroratus No Common Name

Copicerus irroratusPhoto by: Alina Martin
Jackson Co.
Comment: Copicerus irroratus		Copicerus irroratusPhoto by: Alina Martin
Jackson Co.
Comment: Copicerus irroratus
Copicerus irroratusPhoto by: Alina Martin
Jackson Co.
Comment: Copicerus irroratus		Copicerus irroratusPhoto by: Alina Martin
Jackson Co.
Comment: Copicerus irroratus