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Giant Agave Bug (Acanthocephala thomasi)
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bugnut
big bug -
Acanthocephala thomasi
Ramsey Canyon in the Huachuca Mountains sw of Sierra Vista, Arizona, USA
May 19, 2013
Size: approx. 1.25 to 1.5 inch
Found in doug fir-maple riparian along Ramsey Canyon trail. A very cool giant of an insect possibly of that group called leaf-foot bugs?
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on 20 January, 2014 - 9:32pm
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Ken Wolgemuth
, 20 January, 2014 - 9:35pm
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