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Mesquite - Thasus neocalifornicus - male - female
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Mesquite - Thasus neocalifornicus - Male Female
Santa Rita Experimental Range Station, Florida Canyon, Pima County, Arizona, USA
July 25, 2013
Size: ~35mm
Is there a way to tell gender? gathering_2013
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 6 August, 2013 - 9:22pm
Last updated 6 August, 2013 - 11:55pm

Male on the left
… Brad Barnd, 6 August, 2013 - 11:01pm

 
It has quite a bulbous hind femur
Perhaps that's a distinguishing character of the males here?
… Aaron Schusteff, 22 December, 2013 - 12:28am

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