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I've photographed a copula, is it certain that these two belong to the same species or could they still be two different ones, even if they're copulating??? The male looks identical to the black male in this thread, the female looks identical to the female with light brown elytra in the last photos...(I'm not able to upload more photos in this thread it seems).

The first one in this thread must be a Cantharis sp., I've checked the tarsal claws on one specimen I've found today. It keys to Cantharis livida, maybe it could be Cantharis livida var. rufipes, but I'm very uncertain about that.... I'm not able to identify these females anyways :(

Normally I think Cantharis is easy to identify (they match the descriptions given in the keys), but I've had problems with these local variants (first noticed them in 2010, always at the same location close to the shore).