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Ophonus, potrebbe essere l'azureus.
Ciao
Mario

Any size?

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Klaas

Non penso, ha i femori scuri, al limite il cribricollis, ma di Turchia chissà quante specie ci sono

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CIAO Augusto Degiovanni

http://anthicidaeecarabidae.altervista.org

ci vogliono le dimensioni, e anche così, dato che è una femmina, non so se ne usciamo

hi ozgur... please indicate the size

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maurizio

It's size is 11 mm.

That's a bit to much for Ophonus azureus. I don't know if they can get bigger, but the size in my books is named up to 9 mm. So I guess it is not O. azureus. But not for sure.

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Klaas

Thanks Klaas.
As I see at internet photos azureus is greenish blue..
A bigger one is O. sabulicola??

hi ozgur

from the photo, your specimen appears to have dark femora, which would exclude both azureus and sabulicola, as well as most Ophonus species, in which legs are uniformly reddish to red-yellowish

can you confirm whether or not this feature is real?

thanks

p.s. the specimen was directly collected, or maybe it remained a more or less long time in a pitfall trap? this may result in a darkening of light parts of appendages

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maurizio

Hi Maurizio,
The specimen was directly collected and killed with vapour of etil asetat. As you seen femora is a little bit darker and the legs are reddish.