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<emphasis id="F192EAD4FFE2FF88FF007FECFE9D4AEE" box="[151,361,1209,1231]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="62">Metopina heselhausi</emphasis>
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: 321
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; Disney
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Material.
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:
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Almagor [
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, W. Kuslitzky, Malaise trap; 1♀ same data but
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same data but
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.
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<emphasis id="F192EAD4FFE2FF88FF507E34FE944B5A" bold="true" box="[199,352,1378,1403]" pageId="1" pageNumber="62">Distribution.</emphasis>
The species has been found across Europe (
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;
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) and in
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(
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). It is also known from
<collectingCountry id="BBF17656FFE2FF88FDD87ED1FD544BBF" box="[591,672,1415,1438]" name="Yemen" pageId="1" pageNumber="62">Yemen</collectingCountry>
, Macaronesia and
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(
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; Disney
<emphasis id="F192EAD4FFE2FF88FB2B7ED1FB004BBE" box="[1212,1268,1414,1439]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="62">et al.</emphasis>
, 2010, 2013).
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<emphasis id="F192EAD4FFE2FF88FF507EFCFED34BE2" bold="true" box="[199,295,1450,1475]" pageId="1" pageNumber="62">Biology.</emphasis>
This species appears to be attracted to flowers of
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,
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and
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<emphasis id="F192EAD4FFE2FF88FB1C7EFCFB0D4BE2" box="[1163,1273,1450,1475]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="62">Potentilla</emphasis>
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, as well as to meat baits (
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; Disney
<emphasis id="F192EAD4FFE2FF88FD8E7E99FDBE4BC6" box="[537,586,1486,1511]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="62">et al</emphasis>
., 2010). In
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, the species was reared from
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fungi (
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Disney
<emphasis id="F192EAD4FFE2FF88FA1F7E99FF40482A" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="62">et al.</emphasis>
, 2013
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).
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<emphasis id="F192EAD4FFE2FF88FF507D40FECF480E" bold="true" box="[199,315,1558,1583]" pageId="1" pageNumber="62">Remarks.</emphasis>
Females of
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resemble those of
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, the main difference between them being the size measured as the width of the abdominal tergite 4 (&lt;
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in
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vs&gt;
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). However, following the discovery of intermediate specimens of
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from the Canary Islands
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suggested that the two species can be distinguished by the relative length of the anterolateral arms of the abdominal tergite 10, which are clearly shorter in
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. Females from Almagor also has tergite 4 measured between
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, but the length of tergite 10 apodemes allows its confident attribution to
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.
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