Posted by Kahis on 02-10-2006 18:58
#9
morfa wrote:
proctoss and Kahis: Thank you! I'd never have thought no1 and no2 to be different species. How do I tell these apart?
There's a secret trick which is apparently not widely known (and I won't reveal it here :p), but for starters look at the color and width of the face below antennae. Extremely narrow and yellowish in
C. scambus, broader and pure grey in
C. curvipes.
C. loripes is similar to
C. curvipes but the top-secret trick works for those species too.
C. curvipes and
C. scambus are pretty much omnipresent here in the boreal zone.
C. loripes is a somewhat more local.