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Dovrebbe essere Akis ma quale ?
Trovati 2 esemplari in un vecchio garage con pavimento sabbioso.
Misura=24mm

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Claudio Deiaco
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Very interesting and fine picture. Normaly A. italica show a supplementary dorsal costa. Seems also to be A. heydeni but this species is known from Morocco !!

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L'hai preso nello stesso ambiente dei formicaleoni?

Gran bella foto Claudio
Non è una Akis, ma un genere vicino:
Cyphogenia (Lechriomus) lucifuga (Adams, 1817) - Tenebrionidae Pimeliinae Akidini

Comunque un reperto interessante. Io la conoscevo solo di Anatolia, ma vedo che era già citata della Georgia nel Cat. Pal. Col.

Ciao
Piero

Si esatto. Stesso "garage"

Grazie Piero

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Claudio Deiaco
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In my mind Cyphogenia is effectively a more south-oriental genus. Nevertheless but it's really fine looking like a species from the genus Cyphogenia. Very interesting finding indeed !

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Hi Noel
Fine to know. But it's a gender that i really don't knew. I collected the beetles just for his size and shape.
I brought the specimens to Entomodena yesterday and someone picked up one of them. Im sure it's in good hands.

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Claudio Deiaco
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