Updates from June 3, 2005

I wish I had photographed this one against a ruler or some kind of size reference. The genus ID is confident, and I am very tentatively calling it Eurylophella minimella based on the keys in Allen & Edmunds (1963) and the following judgment of its characteristics: 1. Has a "medium" rather than "large" tubercle on the styliger plate between the forceps bases (pretty sure) 2. Body and legs not sprinkled with fine brown dots (obvious) 3. Tails with dark annulations at the apex of each segment (obvious) 4. Terga brown and sterna pale; sterna 2-7 lacking large dark brown median macula, but each having 4 dark dots (pretty sure) 5. Penes widest near base, not mid-length (pretty sure) 6. Penes with a "shield-shaped" rather than "oblong" subapical excavation (not sure) 7. Dark brown apical macula on femora "distinct" rather than "faint" (very unsure on this judgment call) If i'm wrong, i'm mostly likely wrong about point 7, which would make this Eurylophella verisimilis instead (forewings 8–9 mm long, vs 6–7 for minimella). If i'm wrong about point 6 (also very possible), the options would be Eurylophella aestiva and Eurylophella bicolor.