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Hello, could it be Macronychia sp.? There´s only M. alpestris recorded here and I´ve never seen it and I can´t follow the keys with a sigle pic.
Can anyone say the genera?

Photograph taken by Gonzalo Sancho (used with permission) (http://www.biodiv..._id=151476)
- In Pontevedra (Galicia, NW Spain)
- Meadow, next to a maizefiled (conrfield?)
- 21st. august (2010)

Thanks again :)

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Ovipositor spine-like, basicosta seems dark, it should be Macronychia striginervis, unless there are other relative species in Mediterrannean aera.

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Hello, M. striginervis was not recorded (until 2002, my last reference), but this pic was taken at the opposite side of the mediterranean coast of spain (i ignore if this helps).
Thank you very much :)

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Definitely not alpestris, only striginervis and lemariae have such a piercer. I have lemariae from southern Spain (Granada)
This looks pretty like striginervis, though

Theo

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At this moment 4 species of Macronychia subgenus Macronychia (having spine shaped piercer) are known in Europe: striginervis, dolini, substriginervis and lemariei (revisions by Verves, 2006 and Verves et al, 2009). M. kanoi is now considered to be a east palaearctic species.

However Verves does not describe the typical features of the Macronychia that is most common in North Western Europe. He uses features that are variable within this North Western species or not existent in the specimens of Macronychia in my collection.

Therefore it is wise not to speculate on the species-level until at least types of striginervis and ungulans have been checked.

Liekele

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I could not go further from those two books, thank you all very much for your help.
Kind regards