gcsnelling's Journal

Well another one bites the dust. The beetle genus Gibbifer is apparently no longer considered to be a valid genus having been replaced with Cypherotylus.

https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id309500/

This is likely going to have an impact on records we have here.

Xylocopa sonorina Smith, 1874 from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Xylocopinae) with comments on its taxonomy

https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/49918/

Something that may be of interest to those with an interest in Neuroptera

Catalogue and Monograph of the
Species and Subspecies of the
Extant and Extinct
Neuroptera, Megaloptera, Raphidioptera, and Glosselytrodea
(Insecta: Neuropterida) of the World

Version 6.0
(release date: 23 March 2018)

John D. Oswald
Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843-2475 USA

http://lacewing.tamu.edu/SpeciesCatalog/Main