University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Insecta Mundi Florida 6-10-2013 Rediscovery of the Florida Scorpionfly, Panorpa floridana Byers (Mecoptera: Panorpidae) Louis A. Somma University of Florida, [email protected] Stephen Cresswell West Virginia Wesleyan College, [email protected] James Dunford University of Florida, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi Somma, Louis A.; Cresswell, Stephen; and Dunford, James, "Rediscovery of the Florida Scorpionfly, Panorpa floridana Byers (Mecoptera: Panorpidae)" (2013). Insecta Mundi. 808. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/808 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Florida at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. 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Somma McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity Florida Museum of Natural History University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-2710 [email protected] Stephen Cresswell Buckhannon, WV 26201 www.americaninsects.com [email protected] James C. Dunford McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity Florida Museum of Natural History University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-2710 [email protected] Abstract. We describe the rediscovery of the Florida scorpionfly,Panorpa floridana Byers (Mecoptera: Panorpidae), at Gold Head Branch State Park, Clay County, Florida, based upon a single, living, adult specimen photographed on 4 November 2010. The hardcopy photographic prints and electronic digital images of this panorpid are the first vouchers for P. floridana in 28 years, the only observation of a living specimen, and the sixth individual known of this seemingly rare Florida endemic. Introduction The Florida scorpionfly,Panorpa floridana Byers, 1993, was described 20 years ago on the basis of only five known adult specimens (Byers 1993; Somma and Dunford 2009a). This endemic Floridian panorpid has only been collected in Alachua and Clay counties, northern peninsular Florida (Byers 1993; Somma and Dunford 2008, 2009a). Known P. floridana specimens are a male, the holotype, collected in Gaines- ville at a horticultural unit near the San Felasco Hammock, Alachua County, 1970; one female paratype collected from an unspecified locality in Alachua County, 1974; a female allotype and female paratype, both collected in Gold Head Branch State Park, Clay County, 1982; and one male paratype collected in Orange Park, Clay County, 1936 (Byers 1993; Somma and Dunford 2009a). Four of the five specimens were collected in November, and the Orange Park male in December (Byers 1993; Somma and Dunford 2009a). Almost no other data help elucidate the biology of P. floridana except the female Alachua County specimen was found “on saw palmetto” (Byers 1993). Panorpa floridana currently has a NatureServe Global Conservation Status Rank of G1 (=critically imperiled because of extreme rarity, NatureServe Explorer 2012) and the Florida Natural Areas Inventory (FNAI) has State-listed it as GIS1 (= critically imperiled because of extreme rarity, Florida Natural Areas Inventory 2012). Herein we present informa- tion on the sixth known voucher and only observation of a living individual of P. floridana. Additionally, we provide data regarding its habitat and make suggestions for future study. Methods and Materials One of us (SC) surveyed the steephead ravine of Gold Head Branch, in the Mike Roess Gold Head Branch State Park, Clay County, Florida, on 4 November 2010. The camera used to photograph the 1 2 • INSECTA MUNDI 0303, June 2013 SOMMA, CRESWELL AND DUNFORD Figures 1–4. 1) Male Panorpa floridana in situ on low growing Ilex sp. in Gold Head Branch Ravine, Clay County, Florida, 4 November 2010 (photographic voucher FNAI Reference Code: N13CRE01FLUS, Reference ID: 189911; MorphoBank M152668). Photograph by Stephen Cresswell. 2) Lateral view of male Panorpa floridana in situ in Gold Head Branch Ravine, Clay County, Florida, 4 November 2010 (photographic voucher FNAI Reference Code: N13CRE01FLUS, Reference ID: 189911; MorphoBank M152669). Photograph by Stephen Cresswell. 3) Dorsal view of male Panorpa floridana in situ in Gold Head Branch Ravine, Clay County, Florida, 4 November 2010 (photographic voucher FNAI Reference Code: N13CRE01FLUS, Reference ID: 189911; MorphoBank M152670). Photograph by Stephen Cresswell. 4) Anterior view of head of male Panorpa floridana in situ in Gold Head Branch Ravine, Clay County, Florida, 4 November 2010 (photographic voucher FNAI Reference Code: N13CRE01FLUS, Reference ID: 189911; MorphoBank M152671). Photograph by Stephen Cresswell. scorpionfly was a Cannon 5D Mark II with a 180 mm macro lens and MT-24 macro twin flash; exposure 1/200 s at f18 and f16. Two of these images were originally posted on BugGuide (Cresswell 2011), where these initial online postings were used to make a species determination by Wesley J. Bicha (in Cresswell 2011, pers. comm. 2012). These and one other photographic image were used by two of us (LAS, JCD) to verify the species identity based upon visible morphology, especially the forewings, by comparing with published descriptions (Byers 1993; Somma and Dunford 2009a) and the two specimens (the holotype and the Orange Park paratype) maintained