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July 20 and 21, 2025. On July 19,
2025, many were found in Warm
Spring Wash northeast of Hillsboro on
Mule Fat, a.k.a. Seepwillow, Baccharis
salicifolia.
The photographs of Neolycus
fernandezi on this and the two
Neolycus fernandezi
(Duges, 1878)
In some sources this species is still
called Lycus fernandezi which is the
Latin binomial that Duges originally
assigned to it.
This species is found from Arizona
eastward to central Texas and south
through most of Mexico. The very
similar Lycus arizonensis has a range
which overlaps the range of this
species in the United States. The
boundary between the black and
orange portions of the elytra (the hard
shield which covers the wings) is
more jagged in Neolycus fernandezi
(as shown within the circle below)
than in Lycus arizonensis. This edge is
much more even in L. arizonensis, as
shown in the image directly below, by
Mike Quinn (from Ash Canyon of the
Huachuca Mountains of Arizona on 24
July 2023). Shown here under a
creative commons license.
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following pages were taken in
Hillsboro on July 20 and 21, 2025.
