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Hi,

I have problems with this Phaonia female. I use the Central European key and as radial node is bare I must make a choice if this scutellum is apically yellowish or not. I think it is slighly yellowish and if I follow the key; abdomen is dark, notopleuron has no hairs, antenna and tarsomeres are black and strong presutural ac absent - Phaonia apicalis.

If I decide that scutellum is comletely dark, legs are partly yellow, no presutural ac, base of antenna is dark, mid tibia has only one row of posterior setae, palpus not dilated, notopleuron bare, three postsutural dc, prealar seta distinct, arista plumose and scutellum bare beneath, flagellemore brown-black, legs predominantly yellow - Phaonia mystica.

Both are rare species, so I believe I went wrong somewhere but where ?

August 8. 2009 Loviisa, Finland.

Jari