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Larry Bezark
Member Macrodontia

USA
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Posted - 27/01/2018 :  03:52:54  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote


Fabulous tiny ant mimics, first one looks very much like New World
Cyrtinus, distinct basal elytral tubercles.

3-4 mm from East Cape, Mboyti.

Larry B.
Edited by - Gerard on 27/01/2018 18:45:35

Riana
Member Rosalia

South Africa
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Posted - 27/01/2018 :  08:25:20  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
Looks like Myrmecoclytus natalensis Hunt & Breuning, 1957
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Jérôme Sudre
Member Rosenbergia

France
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Posted - 27/01/2018 :  09:29:25  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
If the basal tubercules of each elytra are rounded and not oval, the elytral punctuation is sub-aligned and if the femurs are more strongly dilated than in the figure that Breuning gives in his revision (1958) it is him! It is very likely that the typus was destroyed by the Anthrenes as unfortunately many typus of the collection Hunt
Nice species !!
Edited by - Jérôme Sudre on 27/01/2018 09:34:28
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Larry Bezark
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Posted - 27/01/2018 :  19:32:26  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
Yes, yes, and yes.

Thank you,

Larry B.
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