Vitaleucopis scopulus Gaimari 2020

[Vitaleucopis scopulus Gaimari, 2020: 78] Type locality: USA: California (HT ♂, CSCA). This species is known only from western United States. Given the association with ���aborted sugar pine cones���, this species is likely a predator on adelgids or Cinara aphids attacking sugar pine, Pinus lambertiana, since they sometimes infest areas at the bases of new cones and can stunt or abort their development.
Published as part of Gaimari, Stephen D. & Havill, Nathan P., 2021, A new genus of Chamaemyiidae (Diptera: Lauxanioidea) predaceous on Adelgidae (Hemiptera), with a key to chamaemyiid species associated with Pinaceae-feeding Sternorrhyncha, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 5067 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5067.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5656435
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