Melissodes (Eumelissodes) agilis Cresson, 1878, 1879

Melissodes (Eumelissodes) agilis Cresson, 1878 View in CoL , sensu LaBerge, 1961

Agile Sunflower Longhorn

Notes: LaBerge (1961) lists four localities for this species in Connecticut (Colebrook, Litchfield County; Storrs, Tolland County; Wallingford, New Haven County; Westville, New Haven County), and we have found one Tolland County specimen record for M. agilis determined by LaBerge at SEMC. We are citing this species as valid for Connecticut on LaBerge’s authority and are only including records from the revision in our county checklist ( Table 2). Although M. agilis and M. trinodis are routinely separated in parts of their range such as Minnesota (Portman et al. 2023) and Manitoba (Gibbs et al. 2023), their status is less well known in the Northeastern United States. We cannot reliably separate potential M. agilis specimens from M. trinodis at this time, and our doubts about species delimitation between these species in New York and New England extend to determinations in the revision and to records from Massachusetts (Veit et al. 2022[“2021”]). Further integrative taxonomic studies are needed to confirm the range limits of M. agilis since at present few investigators are confident in separating northeastern M. agilis from M. trinodis , and the dark wings veins of regional examples are more consistent with the latter.