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Dear Dave, I think your study confirms that Micromorphus claripennis is a variation of Micromorphus albipes (as Parent and Stackelberg thought). Negrobov raised it to species level based on colour characters without explanation. The colour does not work for Micromorphus. Remarkably, Negrobov included in his key doubtful "Micromorphus" paludosus, which belongs probably to Medetera or Rhaphium.