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Another red guy - Tetraopes femoratus
Copyright © 2009 margarethe brummermann

Another red guy - Tetraopes femoratus
North of Silvercity, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
August 3, 2009
Size: 13 mm
Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 6 August, 2009 - 8:34pm
Last updated 8 September, 2014 - 8:41am

Eric,
Fred Skillman caught and ided this one for me - so I guess the species is safe, even though I can see some differences to specimens from other aerias, too
… margarethe brummermann, 24 August, 2009 - 11:17am

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