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Thanks for your time Paolo!

I got some cropped pictures, that's not really easy to tell, maybe you have a better idea..

But I would tend to think the mating male has likely the punctation of P. humboldti ?

© Danièle Tixier-Inrep

I would say Pseudochrysis incrassata , I fully agree that it is not so rare, but very localised. I attach ... images from type specimens. The punctation is usually helpful for the ID of incrassata/humboldti , however sometimes females of incrassata may be not so easy to ID based on punctation ...

Hi Frank ! I recently found a couple of Pseudochrysis humboldti at Ribiers (Hautes-Alpes, France) and I noticed that the female have a ponctuation thinner ...

... on my picture it's exaggerated due to the angle I shot it. In another post on this forum I saw the color of tegulae could help to differenciate humboldti from incrassata (blue on the first one, coppery on the second), I post two pictures of the second tergum and genitalia, if it could help to ...

... Congratulations for your findings :ok: And Wow :wow: This is a teratological specimen. The abdomen looks 1,5 times the real size. I think it's P. humboldti , however a picture of the punctation on T2 and one of the genital capsule would be better for ID, because in S France there's also P.incrassata ...

Another species from southern Alps in France, caught last week on a dry path in scrubland (Mirabeau, 04510), 3 males flying along a small clay cliff.

Their very peculiar shape and coloration make me think to Pseudochrysis humboldti (P.fahringeri now ?).

Hi

I think it's a male of Pseudochrysis fahringeri Trautmann

Cheers
Paolo

An interesting nomeclatorial case was recently published on the names Pseudochrysis and Pseudospinolia : Rosa P., Pavesi M., Soon V. & Niehuis ... to have been listed in the original description. One of these, Chrysura humboldti Dahlbom, 1845, was explicitly designated by Semenov (1892) as type ...