Observation date: March 16, 2015
Submitted by: Dave Patton
Specimen type: Photograph
Observation notes: Flushing from spot to spot as I pursued for a photo.
Status: Resident
Verified by: rickypatterson
Verified date: November 09, 2016
Coordinator notes: Either Xanthotype urticaria or X. sospeta.
Bugguide.net says the following:
Work done by Jeremy DeWaard shows that DNA barcodes for urticaria and sospeta are identical. The two species appear to be inseparable by COI sequence data, and genitalia differences are quite variable and ambiguous (save for the shape of the aedeagus in some populations). This indicates the possibility the two are a single species, however, no official revision has been published to date reflecting as such.
Reference: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0018290
