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Specimen curated in the TAMUIC
Range: Not known from outside of the Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas area
Flight Period: June to August
Type Specimen: Trichodesma puchella Schaeffer - Harvard Museum Comparative Zoology
Similar Species: 10 species north of Mexico. Texas spp. include:
Trichodesma gibbosa Say 1825
Trichodesma pulchella Schaeffer 1903
Trichodesma sordida Horn 1894
Trichodesma texana Schaeffer 1903
Taxonomy:
Trichodesma is also an Old World plant genus comprising some 40 species in the family Boraginaceae:
(Note: the rules of scientific nomenclature allow for plant species and animal species to share the same genus)
- Boraginaceae Trichodesma R.Br. -- Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 496. 1810 [27 Mar 1810] (GCI
Etymology: Trichodesma pulchella Schaeffer 1903
trich, -o (G). Hair
desm, -a (G). A band
pulch, -e (L). Beautiful
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