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Gonia ornata? --> Gonia vacua
Jann Wuebbenhorst
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Posted on 03-05-2020 16:06
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Found on a sunny forest edge, 26.04.2020; eastern Lower Saxony (Germany).
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It is a female Gonia, it looks a bit weird in colouration. Is the reflection by a flash or simply the sun ?

Theo
 
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It is simply the sun, I didn't use a flashlight.
 
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It almost looks like vacua. How eastern are you ? East of Hannover ?

Theo
 
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The coordinates are 53.318703, 10.712973.
It is about 50 km east of Hannover, and about 100 km north (about 50 km southeast of Hamburg).
 
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Yeap, it is vacua ! Should be very rare in western Germany, but recorded for Nordrhein Westphalen. I know by own experience it is relatively common in northeastern Poland.
I am not sure if it is mentioned for Niedersachsen in the new checklist by Stuke.

Theo
 
Jann Wuebbenhorst
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Posted on 03-05-2020 20:45
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Fine, thank you very much!
Gonia vacua is indeed not in Jens-Hermann Stuke's list for Niedersachsen and Bremen.

Jann
 
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