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Pterocheilus - female
Copyright © 2009 Hartmut Wisch

Pterocheilus - Female
Lockwood Valley Road near Wagonroad Canyon, Ventura County, California, USA
May 19, 2006
Size: ~14mm
Last week (March 5, 2009; since this is an update) I observed a female Pterocheilus sp. excavating her burrow. This sent me back to my earlier photos, & here I'm adding a cropped, and rotated version of the center photo to show the feathery palps more clearly.

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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 9 March, 2009 - 2:30pm
Last updated 9 March, 2009 - 7:58pm

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