Posted by Tony Irwin on 02-12-2006 10:15
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Hi J?rgen
I think you have two species here. My guess (I can't be sure) is that the top two are
Phaonia subventa. The bottom two may be
Phaonia bitincta, but without specimens to hand, it's tricky - and let's not forget the possibility of
Mydaea maculiventris. :( As Robert has suggested before, this is a difficult group, and we need to keep taking good photos of collected specimens. I will try this winter to sort out some other characters which can be used to separate them.