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Undeveloped wings. Is this freshly emerged? A same-species large fly was buzzing around very interested in this one. In the last image there is a dark 'something' under its head that the fly seems to move ... later it is gone.

Interestingly it was a very cool and overcast day with not much other insect life.

So on the west side of the Big-Sandy river this is the absolute farthest north naturally growing saguaro cactus in this area and for that matter all the way to the Colorado river it was also the only one I could find in this wash and the area north of this spot

I...think this name fits the best, but don't really get how its Tapinoma. the original description mentions about the 4 gastral segents etc, but I don't really think thats that relevent as Technomyrmex also often have only 4 visible

Planta endémica de Chile, la (Rhodophiala advena). En el Catálogo de Plantas Vasculares de Chile de Rodriguéz etal.2018, la tiene normaizada como Myostemma advena (Ker Gawl.) Ravenna .
La especie cambia de nombre, llamándose ahora (Zephyranthes advena) ,
(*): Identificada por thomas-kv .