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15.
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?
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16.II15.VI.04
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.
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<emphasis id="B937EAE5FFBF126511EAF80459016AE0" bold="true" box="[198,338,1945,1971]" pageId="14">Chorotype.</emphasis>
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3 [1.03 of
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Vigna Taglianti
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<emphasis id="B937EAE5FFBE126411EAFF0A59EF6DE2" bold="true" box="[198,444,151,177]" pageId="15">Italian distribution.</emphasis>
Northern mainland (
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Dahl
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1995
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;
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) and
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recorded this species from
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based on the specimens from T1 and T2 cited above. The Sardinian material of this species mostly has three brown stripes indistinctly indicated on the mesonotum in contrast to most European material, which has the mesonotum mainly yellow without a central stripe and the lateral stripes reduced to supra-alar patches. Although resembling
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Becker
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in that respect, no structural difference from typical
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has been found and they are concluded to be conspecific. The description of
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, based on a male from near Napoli on the Italian mainland (
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), resembles more typical specimens of
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in having only the two dark patches on the thorax and is considered likely to be synonymous. It has not been recorded since its original description and has been distinguished on the male antennae being 4 times body length compared to about 3 times in
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; this is to some extent subjective depending on the degree of contraction of the abdomen and the antennae appear 4 times body length in some of the Sardinian specimens.
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