Panorpa americana Swederus, 1787

Stark, Bill P., Lago, Paul K., Harrison, Audrey B. & Smith, William E., 2016, A Preliminary Annotated Checklist of Mississippi Mecoptera (Insecta), Insecta Mundi 2016 (469), pp. 1-15 : 5-6

Panorpa americana Swederus

Panorpa americana Swederus, 1787:279 . Georgia

Distribution. AL, DE, FL, GA, LA, MS, NJ, NC, SC, VA.

Published Mississippi Records. Five sites on Map 5, Byers (1993). Byers (1993) reports the species from Chickasaw Co., near Woodland, 25 September, and Oktibbeha Co., near State College, 25 September.

New Mississippi Records. Lafayette Co., Oxford, 10 January 1948, H.V. Weems, Jr., 1 ♀ (FSCA). T7S-R2W Sec. 25, 26 September 1977, A.E. Zuccaro, 1 ♀ (UMIC). Same site, 27 September 1978, C. Edwards, 1 ♀ (UMIC). 15 miles NE Oxford, 20 September 1976, J. Burris, 1 ♀ (UMIC). 11 miles NE Oxford, 5 October 1982, L. Bates, 1 ♀ (UMIC). Monroe Co., 4 miles N Amory, T12S, R8E, Sec 8 NW, 31 October 1990, T.L. Schieffer, 1 ♂ (MEMU). Noxubee Co., Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, 33˚ 17’ 00” N, 88˚ 45’ 16” W, 6 October 1993, D.M. Pollock, 1 ♂ (MEMU). Oktibbeha Co., Ag. C., 20 September, J.B. Switz, 1 ♂ (FSCA). State College, 20 June 1974, R. Mizell, 1 ♂ (MEMU). Oktibbeha County Lake, 33˚ 30’ 51” N, 88˚ 56’ 30” W, 14 October 1995, T.L. Schiefer, 1 ♀ (MEMU). Pontotoc Co., T95-RIE Sec. 17, 23 September 1977, D.E. Stanford, 1 ♂, 2 ♀ (UMIC). Locality unknown, 21 September 1974, R. Patterson, 1 ♀ (FSCA). Sessums, 23 October 1920, J.T. Harris, 1 ♀ (MEMU). 4 miles SW Troy, 21 September 1974, R. Patterson, 1 ♀ (MEMU). Stone Co., University of Mississippi Forestlands, 17 October 1986, S. Testa, 1 ♂ (UMIC).

Comments. This species is regarded primarily as an autumnal emerger by Byers (1993), but as he notes, a few specimens were reported by Carpenter (1939) from early June at Yonah Mountain, Georgia. Mississippi records also include a single June collection of a male from Oktibbeha County, and an unusual January specimen collected by H.V. Weems, Jr. from Lafayette County in 1948.