[8] California dreaming ( Calicynorta bimaculata)

Banks (1893: 150) described the new species Cynorta bimaculata Banks 1893 from “ California, San Diego”. After inclusion in the genus Eucynortella by Roewer (1912), C. bimaculata was given a genus of its own by Goodnight & Goodnight (1943: 643) – Calicynorta Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943, the name emphasizing the occurrence in California. They presented an illustration of Banks type. Ten years later, Calicynorta was synonymized with Vonones by Goodnight & Goodnight (1953a, see [9]). Kury (2003) revalidated Calicynorta .

Cokendolpher & Jones (1991: 86) and Cokendolpher (pers. com. to ABK, 1995) doubted California as correct finding locality, since no Cosmetidae has ever been collected anywhere in the USA west of Texas (Fig. 5). Moreover, the label only says “San Jose”, possibly in Costa Rica.