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Finding under a rock.
9 mm

Catomus sp.

Ciao
Piero

Thanks Piero.
Best regards.

Hi Piero and Ogzur,

I went trough Nabozenko reviews of Catomus (2006 and 2015) and basing on this only image I've hardly found any match with the known species, except maybe for C. karakalensis (Turkmenistan) due to the similar pronotum profile.
I would suggest to collect more specimens

E.

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«Discendiamo da scimmie evolute, non da angeli caduti» Robert Ardrey

Thanks Enrico. I find one more species in the same area and same day. It is a little bit smaller may be because of gender. I also add it...

this latter is a male, as you can see from the enlarged tarsi, particularly the fore ones

no doubt more useful than a female in determining the species

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maurizio