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I know the photo is bad...so any guess ?

This is Sphenoptera (Sphenoptera) antiqua (Illiger, 1803) (confidence 60%) or Sphenoptera (Sphenoptera) barbarica (Gmelin, 1790) (confidence 40%). I would like to see more light on the elytra.

Ciao
Adrian

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Ciao
Adrian

Adrian, antiqua for sure not. It has 4 big elytral strias on each elytra, " rauca like ". And the alpine biotop aint really for antiqua, is it ?

My guess was barbarica as well.

I will try to do bette photo later today.

I found antiqua in the hilly habitats in Romania, but the latitude counts. Can you remember what the host plant was ? Astragalus, Trifolium?

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Ciao
Adrian

Yes, it has been sitting on the ground before noon and sunbathing, 1 inch from Dorcadion ossae ...otherwise I would not find it.

I dont think I can do a better photo

It looks like barbarica, but I have a record of barbarica at 20 m altitude (close to the Black Sea Coast). It is definitely not rauca, due to the shape of the body. I have to check tomorrow if is another species of Sphenoptera (Sphenoptera) in Greece, among antiqua and barbarica.

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Ciao
Adrian

As I promissed, I checked in: Muhle, Brandl, Niehuis 2000. Catalogus Faunae Graeciae. Coleoptera: Buprestidae. Augsburg.
and they are 8 species of the subgenus Sphenoptera. I know well only antiqua and I have keys only for antiqua and barbarica.
The 8 species according with Muhle, Brandl, Niehuis (2000) are:

antiqua (Illiger, 1803)
ardua Gorly & Laporte, 1839
ariadne Obenberger, 1913
barbarica (Gmelin, 1788)
chrysostoma Gory & Laporte, 1839
coracina (Steven, 1829)
lapidaria (Brulle, 1832)
melitta Obenberger, 1927

Momentary, I give up

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Ciao
Adrian

Based on Kalashian, M. Y., V. P. Sakalian (2007 - A review of the Genus Sphenoptera Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) of the Balkan Peninsula - Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 59(1):17-28), these would be the greek species of Sphenoptera s.l.:
antiqua (Illiger, 1803)(= melitta Obenberger, 1927; = ardua Gorly & Laporte, 1839)
barbarica (Gmelin, 1788)
chrysostoma Gory & Laporte, 1839 (= ariadne Obenberger, 1913)
coracina (Steven, 1829)
lapidaria (Brulle, 1832)
tappesi Marseul, 1865
oertzeni Jakovlev, 1887
trispinosa (Klug, 1829) ? doubtful
basalis pirazzolii Obenberger, 1952
substriata Krynicki, 1834 ? doubtful
laportei Saunders, 1871
jugoslavica Obenberger, 1926
cauta cauta Jakovlev, 1904
simplex Jakovlev, 1893
gemmata (Olivier, 1790)
signata Jakovlev, 1887
cuprina Motschulsky, 1860

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Maurizio Bollino

Quindi, considerando le sinonimie, attualmente le Sphenoptera s. str. ufficialmente presenti in Grecia sarebbero:

antiqua (Illiger, 1803)
barbarica (Gmelin, 1788)
chrysostoma Gory & Laporte, 1839
coracina (Steven, 1829)
lapidaria (Brulle, 1832)

Non sono sicuro che tutte le immagini siano correttamente determinate.

Qui comunque c'è anche S. cuprina e S. chrysostoma

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

Hi gents.

Most it looks like barbarica from those pictured, but the head and pronotum sculpture dosnt match my specimen that much.

Im gonna try to find descriptions of these and check it out.

Thanks to everyone !

A volte si trovano cose inaspettate nei posti più impensati, come una tesi sulle Sphenoptera in una università del Montana. Considerando che questo genere in Nord America non esiste ...

Ci sono le chiavi dicotomiche dei vari gruppi di specie di Sphenoptera dell'ex Unione Sovietica, e belle foto dell'habitus e dei particolari utili per l'identificazione di molte di esse.

Se a qualcuno può servire, ecco il pdf.

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

that is a nice work, really nice ! Thank you Maurizio !!!

Thank you Maurizio. Excellent paper. I have to study it.

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Ciao
Adrian

Ho idea che questa non sia S. barbarica, ma S. chrysostoma.

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