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Beris geniculata female
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Is this Beris fuscipes? County of Angus, Scotland on 05/08/2023.

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Looks like it. No dorsal shot, to better estimate width of vertex ?

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This is the best I can do.

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So, the hind metatars is dark, which made me doubt. And now the vertex really seems too broad for fuscipes. Also the shape of third antennal segment is off. So I think it is female B. geniculata.

Check Steve Falk's Flickr account on this

https://www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N07/albums/72157632909648316/

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Thanks, Theo.

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