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Thank you for your help. I just surprised that this species so far different in appearance from all other Cybocephalidae which I have or that I found on the Internet.

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Marion Mantič
marion.m@seznam.cz

Here is an answer from Trevor R. Smith, I have just now received

"Thank you for the excellent pictures. You are absolutely correct, this is definitely a cybocephalid. In fact based on genitalia I suspect that this is Cybocephalus metallicus Baudi (see attached reference). Thank you for sending the extra pictures for verification."

"I certainly concur with Lech. For the most part, I rely almost exclusively on genitalia for initial identifications as there is some external morphological variation within species. Nice specimen and great picts thanks for sharing it with me."

Thank you all very much.

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Marion Mantič
marion.m@seznam.cz