This is very cool @pisum. As someone who is totally unfamiliar with this species but wants to help - two things I’d find useful would be:
- a visual representation of your characters. I put this together when trying to learn the information in your notes. For me, there’s no substitute for someone pointing out these characters visually (let me know if I got anything wrong here)
- a better handle on distribution. I took the liberty of making an Atlas for this species. Atlases can be useful for calling out observations that are way out of range
https://www.inaturalist.org/atlases/20818
This was an interesting exercise for me to think about the most efficient way for helping someone with no experience in a species like me get up to speed to the point that they can help ID.
Curious what others think about how to best convey this information