<div dir="ltr"><div>My apologies.</div><div><br></div><div>I meant <i>Hammerschmidtia ingrica</i> (!).</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>Ximo</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El mié, 3 jun 2026 a las 15:11, ximo mengual sanchis (<<a href="mailto:xmengual@gmail.com">xmengual@gmail.com</a>>) escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all,</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to ask for a favor. The ISS13 is around the corner, and I would be very happy if you can bring some species for me to study.</div><div><br></div><div>There are two "morphs" of Ferdinandea ruficornis: one with the abdomen copper-coloured and yellow hairs, and a second morph with the abdomen bluish black with yellow and some black hairs. If you have specimens of the dark morph, especially from Northern Europe, I would love to study them.</div><div><br></div><div>Hammerschmidtia ferruginea. Any specimen from Europe or European Russia would be extremely useful.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope some of you can bring the specimens to Italy, or someone else can do it for you.</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks in advance.</div><div><br></div><div>Ximo</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>******************************************************** <br><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Dr. Ximo Mengual<br>Head of the Diptera Section<br></font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Museum Koenig Bonn - LIB</font></font></div><div><font size="2"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Adenauerallee 127 • 53113 Bonn, Germany</font></font></div><div><br></div><div><font size="2"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Phone: 0049 (0)228 9122 292</font><br></font><a href="https://leibniz-lib.de/en/ueber-das-lib/mitarbeitende/ximo-mengual.html" target="_blank">ZFMK web</a><a href="http://entomology.si.edu/StaffPages/MengualJ.html" target="_blank"><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,153)" size="2"><br></font></a></div>
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