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South-east Norway - Telemark
4. May 2016
Open space - mixed forest

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Theo

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Eudasyphora cyanicolor

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Hi Nikita

Now this is interesting, how often do you see Eudasyphora cyanicolor a green-blue colour, all of mine are dark blue - I still wonder if cyanella and cyanicolr can hybridise? does any one know

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Hi Nikita

Now this is interesting, how often do you see Eudasyphora cyanicolor a green-blue colour, all of mine are dark blue - I still wonder if cyanella and cyanicolor can hybridise? does any one know

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Thank you very much!!

Rosevinge

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The key for the Norwegian species (http://www.entomo...2_1979.pdf) clearly leads to Dasyphora cyanicolor; as to its colour it is stated: "thorax and abdomen shining dark blue-green". The males of the two other species show densely hairy eyes (not seen here).
Acccording to Nihei & De Carvalho (2007) Eudasyphora is a subgenus of Dasyphora (http://www.bio-ni...uscini.pdf) - is there any reason that is still should be treated as a genus of its own?

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1. Elisabeth, as Sundew fairly wrote, the colour is variable whereas the bare eyes is an important character.
2. Sundew, in Europe presently is accepted to regard Eudasyphorav as genus. My opinion? I suspect that generic status is groundless. What to do? Let us wait for molecular phylogeny results.

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Thanks very much, I look forward to the molecular phylogeny its long overdue