Forum Entomologi Italiani

Hi, here is one Mylabris from Morocco, surroundings of Isilf, they were in company of many other species of Meloidae. This species in particular is big, collected several specimens, all are between 22-26mm. I noticed variability in the widht of the red stripes, the majority of the specimens were like that in the last picture.

I am not sure whether it is baulnyi or not because they were cohabiting with another Mylabris much smaller but same appearance (maybe longer antenna in smaller species) and now I don´t know wich species is baulnyi (I think the bigger one) or even if both are the same species. Both species (bigger and smaller) were at the same area but not mixed, each on different plants.