. The Entomologist's record and journal of variation. ns (Fal.) This is the P. bicolor of Verrall, Collin and Coe (I haveexamined British specimens labelled as P. bicolor from theVerrall-Collin collection and the British Museum, and all wereP. albifrons). It is the only known British Isles species belong-ing to the subgenus Paragus. Apart from the pale yellowishtip to the scutellum, P. albifrons is usually all-black, but maybear orange marks on tergites 2 and 3. In the field it is indis-tinguishable from P. majoranae, a species reinstated byGoeldlin (1976). A larger, more secretive species, of
. The Entomologist's record and journal of variation. ns (Fal.) This is the P. bicolor of Verrall, Collin and Coe (I haveexamined British specimens labelled as P. bicolor from theVerrall-Collin collection and the British Museum, and all wereP. albifrons). It is the only known British Isles species belong-ing to the subgenus Paragus. Apart from the pale yellowishtip to the scutellum, P. albifrons is usually all-black, but maybear orange marks on tergites 2 and 3. In the field it is indis-tinguishable from P. majoranae, a species reinstated byGoeldlin (1976). A larger, more secretive species, of damper,more heavily vegetated sites than the others occurring in theBritish Isles, P. albifrons flies quite low among tall grasses andpossibly flies for a shorter time each day than the others. Itis probably more likely to be recorded from sweep-net activitythan from direct collecting and can also be collected using 104 entomologists record, vol. 90 15/IV/78 a malaise trap. The aphidophagous larvae have been describedand figured by Goeldlin (1974).. h
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