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 Around 4 mm.

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 It is Sepsis, not punctum (has 0+1 dc, your female 0+2, also legs colour is too dark).
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 Another shot. Perhaps Sepsis violacea ?

Excuse me Nikita, what is dc ?
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 DC - I think 'dorso-centrals', which are bristles on the upper-surface of the thorax.

How do you sex these, Nikita? Especially if you go by the femora, that you don't accidentally dis-credit one like a male S. duplicata which lacks such-notable wing-gripping modifications?
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 It is female. Tomorrow I'll try to show to Andrey Ozerov
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 Andrey Ozerov: female S. fulgens
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