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Hello everyone,

This spring I found several species of Chrysura from the dichroa group in south-east of France, I can only identificate males specimen with the shape of their genital capsula, morphological caracters are too hard to interpret for me in the females. This two last weeks I have collected Chrysura dichroa, laevigata and filiformis, but yesterday I found a new species with a different shape of genital capsula, and I'm not sure of the identification.

At first I guessed it could be Chrysura pseudodichroa for the small size and the golden color on the vertex, but I don't see the wrinkles that should be present on the genitalia of pseudodichroa.

So if someone get an idea for this one !

28/04/2022, on a twig in scrubland, Mazaugues (Var, France), there was also C.filiformis and C.candens at the same place.

Hi Thibault,

very very interisting.
Do you see any sort of wrinkle on the genital capsule, at side of gonocoxa?

Hi Paolo,

Thank you for your answer, as I said i don't see any wrinkles from any angle I look it, but maybe my magnification isn't powerful enough (*45).

But if you need I can maybe take more pictures of the genital capsula.