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Sinea complexa
While placing my eye up to the viewfinder of my camera, I noticed a large portion of my view was blocked and my eyelashes moved. I pulled away and found this spiny beauty on the viewfinder! I turned the camera upside down onto my hand and snapped a few pics before it flew away. This spiny beauty was between 8-9 mm long.
Riparian area with scrub.
First of this species of Project Noah and a first for Bug Guide, California. "The only Sinea of the Southwest with spines on both lobes of pronotum and fore femur strongly swollen distally. S. incognita from the Midwest will also match this description and is most easily separated by range. S. integra from Mexico has a more cylindrical fore femur, and other North American species have spines only on the anterior lobe of the pronotum."
Spotted on Nov 8, 2013
Submitted on Nov 9, 2013
2 Comments
Me too, Lauren! This was between 8 and 9 mm long.
Love this one! Never saw it before. What was it's size?