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blue/green bug - Cysteodemus wislizeni
Copyright © 2007 Brenda Tramel

blue/green bug - Cysteodemus wislizeni
Alamogordo, Otero County, New Mexico, USA
June 1, 2007
One of the pictures has a second bug that crawed-up on the one I was taking a picture of. Do you know what kind it is also?

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Contributed by Brenda Tramel on 19 July, 2007 - 12:04am
Last updated 19 July, 2007 - 11:52am

Looks like Cysteodemus wisliz
Looks like Cysteodemus wislizeni - Black Bladder-bodied Meloid

just a guess though
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 19 July, 2007 - 2:52am login or register to post comments

 
Cysteodemus
Here is what appears to be the same little guy,
… Richard Wasson, 19 July, 2007 - 9:24am login or register to post comments

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