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Undescribed desert Adela species - Adela
Copyright © 2019 Aaron Schusteff

Undescribed desert Adela species - Adela
Plum Canyon, Anza-Borrego State Park, San Diego County, California, USA
March 24, 2019
Size: Body Length: 5.6 mm
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Netted, briefly chilled, photographed, and released unharmed onto Phacelia after it revived.

This oblique, semi-ventral view shows the hind tibiae have two pairs of densely-scaled spurs (one apical, one post-basal)...and the mid-tibia has a single sub-apical pair of such spurs.

For further info, see remarks under 1st image in this series.

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Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 11 April, 2019 - 8:33pm
Last updated 15 April, 2019 - 2:41pm

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