Actually one of the more humorous moments of the day. This rat bug in San Francisco, that flies 12 months a year And is in every vacant lot there, was a LIFER for 4 people in the group today. Ain't Nature Grand?
Savegre Lodge,
Costa Rica
7 February 2016
9.5500
-83.8055
7420 ft elevation
unusual sighting but seen by many during the Laredo Birding Festival
Canis latrans (Coyote )
Fue observado en el parque Regional Municipal de Todos Santos Cuchumatan
Hidalgo County, Texas, US
This species has recently been elevated from subspecies status to full species. In their 2016 paper (Genome Biol. Evol. 8:915–931), Grishin and Warren describe several morphological features of P. sennae ssp. marcellina that are a good fit to the female pictured here. The range of P. marcellina includes South Texas with P. sennae ssp. eubule likely occurring sympatrically in Bexar County.