Again, good pictures - the mandible thickness is not easily photographed, I've tried and failed many times
The mandibles are very thin, although not "super" thin (as in
leptomandibularis), so perhaps
schencki is a good candidate? The brown pubescence on the head also agrees with it, but I'm still very inexperienced with the finer points of how to ID the
ignita-complex. For example I still have no feeling for when a specimen is "stout" or when its "thin" etc etc...
It could be something completely different, although I would say from the look of the internal segments and the thin mandible that it is not part of the
mediata, mediadentata, brevitarsis, pseudobrevitarsis type of species, rather the "inner"
ignita-group (
ignitaA/B,
angustula [which it could perhaps also be]
longula etc). From what I have seen it does not agree with
ignita A,
longula, and certainly not with
corusca &
ruddii, which leaves
angustula, schencki, ignita B,
impressa and
comta.. and I dont have any experience at all with the latter two.
I will stop rambling now
Hopefully someone with much more experience will answer the question
/Alex
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