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Determinazione giusta?
Grazie,
Peter

Si, è Meloe proscarabaeus Linnaeus, 1758 .

Perché non hai messo le foto un po' più grandi? Sarebbe stato più facile da identificare.

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Grazie Maurizio.
Addesso ho aggiunto foto piu grande.
(Non ho messo nulla sul sito per un po di tempo e quindi semplicement ho dimenticato le dimensione preferite...)
Peter

NIce photos,
I've one question about Italy Meloidae fauna, in Italy often you encounter Meloe Meloe violacus or proscasrabeus ?

Regards
P.

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For me on the Triestine carso, I have only ever found M. proscarabaeus.
But if you search 'Meloe' on this site, you'll get an idea of other Italian species.
Peter

Both. M. proscarabaeus is most common in some places, M. violaceus in others. But none of them is so easy to find. Not rare, but not common. Almost all species of Meloe are becoming scarse or rare, some specie very rare, during the last 20 years. While 30-40 years ago most of them were quite common.

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Thank You, this same problem we've in POland, not so common, but in some places very common, but M.proscarabeus is predominantly in my and others opinion. Rest of the species Meloe type are very rare.

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For the UK situation yo ucan see https://www.buglife.org.uk/campaigns-an ... l-beetles; and especially: https://www.buglife.org.uk/sites/defaul ... 0sheet.pdf
Peter

Thank You Peter! Very interesting data!

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Yes it is Meloe proscarabaeus.
In central Europe proscarabaeus and violaceus are both present on plain, while in Italy the second species is almost completely a mountain species (until 2500 m s.l.m.), with very few plain populations in northern Piedmont and in Friuli.
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