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Boisea

Boisea
Taos County, New Mexico, USA
June 10, 2015

Western Boxelder Bug…
See reference here.

 
Why is this western but that eastern?

 
Differences...
The bugs are virtually identical except that the western species has prominent red veins on the corium.

 
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I see the same corial veins in both images

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