BugGuide Firsts
In a few cases I’ve been the first person to find a species for BugGuide. These include:
- Gonocephalum sp. Likely European invasive. Possibly the first American record of this genus anywhere!
- Polistes hirsuticornis Recently (2012) described species; first live image
- Sea Slater, Ligia occidentalis
- Eleodes acuticauda (One of the Darkling Beetles)
- Noctueliopsis aridalis – Hodges#4834 (Noctueliopsis aridalis)
- Juniper Spittlebug: (Clastoptera juniperina)
- Leaf Cutter Bee: Megachile texana
- Ant: Nylanderia vividula
- Dicymolomia opuntialis – Hodges#4891 (opuntialis)
- Aglossa cacamica – Hodges#5514. This is also the first live image for the Moth Photographer’s Group.
- Octinodes schaumi
- Pandeleteius defectus
- Blister Beetle (Eupompha elegans elegans) (First instance of this subspecies)
- Chalcedon Checkerspot Euphydryas chalcedona hennei (First instance of this subspecies)
- Unciella primula – Hodges#10111. This is also the first live image for the Moth Photographer’s Group.
- Beetle: Megobrium edwardsi
- Paravilla montivaga
- Polystepha globosa
- Andromeda Lace Bug (Stephanitis takeyai)
- Moth: Leucogoniella californica. This is also the first image for the Moth Photographer’s Group.
- Banasa lenticularis first live image
- Caudell’s wood cockroach (Parcoblatta caudelli)
- Theridion kawea
California Firsts:
New Jersey Firsts:
- Yellow Fly of the Dismal Swamp: Diachlorus ferrugatus
- Ground Crab Spider: Xysticus sp.
- Bent-winged Owlet Moth – Hodges#8370 (Bleptina caradrinalis)
- Pasture Grasshopper (Melanoplus confusus)
New York Firsts:
- Strigamia bothriopus (Soil Centipede)
- Hogna frondicula (Wolf Spider)
- Pleuroprucha insulsaria (Common Tan Wave)
- Bertamyia notata (Flat-footed Fly)
- Taylorilygus apicalis (Broken-backed Bug)
- Ropalopus sanguinicollis
- Astylopsis macula
- Spine-waisted Ant (Aphaenogaster rudis)
- Australian Cockroach (Periplaneta australasiae)
- Six-spotted Gray Moth – Hodges#8479 (Spargaloma sexpunctata)
- Red-headed Inchworm Moth – Hodges#6342 Macaria bisignata
- Allard’s Ground Cricket
- Wasp: Enicospilus purgatus (also first live image at BugGuide)
- Crane Fly: Tipula submaculata
- Flat-footed fly: Bertamyia sp.
- Japanese Maple Leafhopper (Japananus hyalinus
- Gray Lawn Leafhopper (Exitianus exitiosus)
- Wasp: Lyroda subita
- Short-winged Flower Beetle Brachypterolus pulicarius
- Leaf Hopper Draeculacephala noveboracensis
- Silken Fungus beetle: Antherophagus ochraceus
- Cuckoo Bee: Triepeolus lunatus
- Water Strider Trepobates subnitudus
- Water Strider Neogerris hesione
Texas Firsts:
- Hodges #6411: Rindgea maricopa
