Forum Entomologi Italiani

Hello, I recently come across a paper by Nagy, where he described a Mutilidae species from Romania, namely Smicromyrme (Erimyrme) borceai Nagy, 1968, from the Marine Sand Dunes of Agigea Natural Reserve.

Apart from the Catalogue of Palearctic Mutilidae by Lelej (2002), I can't find any other information about this species on the internet. It is still a valid species, there are more specimens collected or the species is known only from the paratype specimens?

Please see the attached photo of the original drawing of the species

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Smicromyrme borceai is very likely a synonym of another species widely distributed throughout Europe.

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Marcello Romano

Thanks for the reply, so it wasn't so far officially synonymized

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Hello again , I managed to obtain some pictures with the paratype, any idea now about what this species could be?

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