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Beetles In The Bush | Experiences and reflections of a Missouri entomologist
With the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are working at home, instead of in the field. In spite of this, I think that I have made a taxonomic discovery that is important for phorid classification.
My friend, Lonny Coote, recently wrote to me, saying he would help me with some entomological questions if I “describe[d] a second species of Cootiphora ”, a genus I described and named for him in 1993. Since then, the genus Cootiphora has languished in obscurity. I have seen only three specimens: the holotype from Tinalandia, Ecuador, a second specimen from La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica, and a third specimen from Bastrop State Park, Texas (near Austin).
The genus Cootiphora is known only from these three female specimens. They are extremely distinctive because of their cockroach-like, limuloid body form, their reduced, triangular wing rudiment, and their pointed, parasitoid-type oviscape.
Playing Chess with Pigeons | Antievolutionist nonsense, science, and whatever else I wish to hold forth on.
Beetles In The Bush | Experiences and reflections of a Missouri entomologist