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In 30th of July 2023, this pair of white-bearded, sexually dimorphic Saropogon was collected by a colleague in the Greek island of Lesvos and I was tasked with helping identifying it.

After looking the two main keys that I knew were relevant to the area [Engel's monograph and Sakhvon's 2020 paper (https://www.resea...ew_species)], plus a few papers/lists on the Saropogon fauna of Turkey, I was unable to properly match them with a known species. However, I recently obtained the Asilidae volume of Fauna Palaestina and, upon checking the description and external key for the sexes of S. galilaeus, I noticed that this species was extremely similar in general morphology and shape of hypopygium (I haven't extracted the genitalia yet) to those two specimens! Of course, I can't exclude the possibility that they may belong to a new species, not until the male's genitalia are clearly visible!

Below, I provide photos of the living animals, plus two more of the male genitalia (posterior view). What do you believe? Is there any particular species that comes to your mind?

Thanks!