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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Frank Van de Meutter [mailto:frank.vandemeutter@kuleuven.be]
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<b>Sent:</b> 18 March 2016 06:58<br>
<b>To:</b> Francis Gilbert<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Hoverfly discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black">many thanks for the papers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black">My problem remains however: can females of Paragus flammeus and P finitimus be told apart? (this applies to the Belgian situation)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black">If anyone feels he/she can comment on this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black">With regard to the depression in tergite 7 in P finitimus: I have not found this in presumed Paragus finitimus females (caught together with several males of
P finitimus). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black">On the other hand, in a series of P flammeus females (caught together with male flammeus), one specimen exhibited this depression (but did not differ by any
other means from the other females). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black">Also, the feature of long silverish hairs on tergite 5 does not differ among presumed females of the above species in Belgian material, and also the shape of
tergites 7-8 does not accord with the drawings in the article of Goeldlin 1976 (repeated in Verlinden 1992, van Veen 2004). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black">Can anyone help me on this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Verzonden:</b> dinsdag 15 maart 2016 9:17<br>
<b>Aan:</b> Frank Van de Meutter<br>
<b>CC:</b> Hoverfly discussion list<br>
<b>Onderwerp:</b> papers</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
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