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and another Anthaxia.
collected this one (only two specimens, male & female) in 24.may.2010 in Peloponnese (37.854341/22.459604), size 4-5 mm. sorry about how they are prepared but don't know why both specimens were very stiff (all the rest from that batch were perfectly workable).

is possible to put a name from photo?
(female, male & male genitalia)

grazie,
cosmln

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Cosmin-Ovidiu Manci
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Dragonflies of Romania

Ovviamente, gruppo salicis!
Questo gruppo comprende, in Europa, tre specie: salicis, semicuprea e suzannae. La prima si riconosce abbastanza facilmente, le altre due sono molto simili.
In questo caso posso escludere A. salicis. Decidere tra le altre due da una foto è un po' un azzardo (e spesso anche con gli esemplari tra le mani).
Qui però, grazie anche ai genitali (per la verità, anche questi molto simili tra le due specie), direi che mi sembra molto più Anthaxia (Anthaxia) suzannae Théry, 1942

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Maurizio Gigli
http://utenti.romascuola.net/bups
http://bup.xoom.it/

thanks Maurizio,

confirmed as A.suzannae also by Tomasius here.

cosmln

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Thank you Cosmin. I didn't know the answer of Tomasius.

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Maurizio Gigli
http://utenti.romascuola.net/bups
http://bup.xoom.it/

regarding this species... is not published as present in Greece (???), at least in Muhle & all, 2000 in not listed.

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Cosmin-Ovidiu Manci
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Dragonflies of Romania

Before 1999 suzannae had the range of a subspecies of semicuprea acording to Schaefer (1949). Bílý (1999) has raised suzannae on species level, but the catalogue of the greek buprestids by Mühle et al. was published in the year 2000 and the authors could not regard this fact so the two species were not separated at this time.

Tomasius