I've heard about this program, but my microscope is an old model, I can only put the camera close to the ocular of microscope and press a button. I have an opportunity to work on good optics at Donetsk Botanical garden, but it takes time to get there and arrange the work. Any way, thanks for the tip...
Hello Paolo, this is the best I could get, sorry. First I determined the specimen as ambigua by Linsenmaier's key, and features of ambigua lygaea Lins., 1997 from Southern Russia seemed very similar, than I began to doubt and translated original descriptions, but it made only worse. I have nothing t...
Hi Kate, you're right, it looks like C. cerastes , but genae are shorter. According to Linsenmaier, the colour of the thorax of your specimen is typical for Chrysiscerastes , but the short malar spaces and shape of the genae is the one of Chrysis ambigua ...
... in the Crimea (Ukraine). It obviously belongs to Cornuchrysis and to cerastes -goup within it. I think it is Chrysiscerastes Ab., 1877, though species of this group are hard for ID for me. Can anyone ...
Ciao Paolo, in un primo momento avevo pensato ad una Chrysiscerastes Abeille, 1877 ma il margine anale diversamente colorato e i denti un po' più smussati mi ...
... head: the malar spaces seems to be very long and possibly sub parallel; the TFC has also an unusual shape. Basically it resembles a females of the cerastes group. I have all the W Mediterranean species and subspecies, but no one has this strange punctuation of the abdomen and this very typical ...
... vedo che stai bene e sei tornato attivo ;) si tratta del maschio di Chrysiscerastes Abeille, 1877 controlla i segmenti antennali e vedrai che F-I e F-II sono molto accorciati. ...