ceropalinae: tribe ceropalini 



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Figure 160. — Localities for Ceropales neomexicana. 



Calif., May 26, 1912, J. C. Bridwell (Washington). 5cf, experiment 

 station farm, Imperial County, Calif., Alay 1911, May 1912, May 

 26 and 29, 1912, and June 1912, J. C. Bridwell (Washington), cf , 9, 

 Owens River, Calif., Aug. 5, 1915, C. H. Kennedy (Ithaca), d", 39, 

 Wood Lake, Tulare County, Calif., Apr. 5 and 25, May 26, and June 

 25, 1947, Norman W. Frazier (Berkele}^). cf , Luna, N. Mex., Aug. 2, 

 1935, I. J. Cantrall (Ann Arbor), cf , 15 km. east of Sombrerete, 

 Zacatecas, Mexico, July 28 to 31, 1951, H. E. Evans (Evans). 9, 11 

 km. south of Canutillo, Durango, Mexico, Aug. 9, 1951, P. D. Hurd 

 (Berkeley) . 

 This species occurs in the Lower Sonoran fauna. 



14. Ceropales fulvipes Cresson 



Ceropales fulvipes Cresson, 1872, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, p. 208, ? 

 type: 9, Texas (Philadelphia). 



Lecto- 



Forewing 4.5 to 8.7 mm. long; frous with weak, very fine punctures 

 and scattered larger weak punctures that are separated by an average 

 of about 4.0 their diameter; larger punctures on mesoscutum and top 

 of pronotum separated by an average of about 1.5 their diameter; 

 underside of male middle coxa weald}^ concave, with fine dense suberect 

 pubescence; male hind coxa with a large, internal, basal, obliquely 

 truncate lobe that subtends a large excavated area on the basal part 

 of the hind face of the coxa (in smaller specimens this lobe is shorter 

 and more rounded) ; male seventh tergite with a weak median apical 

 notch; male subgenital plate somewhat elongate, in profile with a 

 strong apical swelling. 



Black. Labrum of female pale yellow, black, or black with pale 

 yellow lateral corners ; black mark in middle of face of female reaching 

 the clypeus; underside of flageUum of male rufous; trochanters and 



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