"their fore femur is spiny (but not sexually dimorphic). A general explanation for male and female thick, spiny fore legs would be to aid the rostrum in moving large seeds on substrates with obstacles (Sweet 1964)."
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two of several teeny tiny little bugs in the driveway. grainy texture in the background is sand/gravel. these fellas looked black to the naked eye, but in the photo they appear to have some red-brown undertones