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Captured on the “Mont du Grand Taureau” (dépt. Doubs - France) - Alt. about 1310 m - 23 VI 1993
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Biblio :
- Benson 1952 : RES - Handbooks ... Symphyta ... Vol. VI 2(b)
.....http://www.royensoc.co.uk/sites/default ... art02b.pdf
- Zhelokhovtsev 1988 : in Medvedev (Ed.) - Keys ... USSR. III. Hym. Part 6 Symphyta (Translation in English 1994)
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Det.of Genus (sub-Genus) : viewtopic.php?f=375&t=38250&hilit=allantinae
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Characteristics of our capture :
* A : Tegulae black
* B : Femora 3 mainly ochrous
* C : Stigma not black (basal half white & apical half piceous)
* D : Trochanters 3 & base of Femora 3 black

(Do not confuse with melanarius, see viewtopic.php?f=375&t=60694 )

Thus A & B & C & D --> didymus
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didymus was also captured in Italy