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... These should be the first live shots (at least to my knowledge) of a Pentachrysis sp., probably both P. seminigra ? However Linsenmaier mentions more species, but the distinguishing characters all ...

Sì, si tratta di una Pentachrysis.
Per distinguere se è una arrogans o una seminigra bisogna esaminare la forma del capo in visione frontale (ergo, va ripreparata).
In entrambi i casi si tratta di un reperto eccezionale

Hi Kate. it's a wonderful specimen. Species from the Pentachrysis genus (or subgenus, doesn't matter) are always extremely rare. As ... T-III Based on my experience I can say that all the studied specimens of C. seminigra (ssp. seminigra , ssp. occidentica and ssp. saudiarabica : http://www.gbif.ch/), ...

... (Eastern Ukraine). As I can see, it belongs to amoena -group (subgenus Pentachrysis). Is it a seminigra Walker, 1871 or amoena Evers., 1857? The amoena must have the blue anal rand, and ...