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Hi Nikita,

Let me try to answer your questions:

1) Once you have some more experience with identifying the specimens of the combinata-group it is not that difficult when studying the terminalia. So you may be right it is not very usefull to collect all specimens you "run into", but I think it is a good idea to collect a few (preferably male and female) if you find them on a new locality. Ofcourse pairs in copula are ideal, but individual specimens (both male and female) can be identified.
2) Both specimens preserved in alcohol or pinned are OK. To study the terminalia, I mostly remove the abdomen and boil it in a 10% KOH solution.
3) I think you should change the name in either cf. hackmani or in spec. combinata-group. If the specimen in the gallery is collected, we will be able to put the definate name to it later.

Jan Willem