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We demonstrate both theoretically and in simple, but practically relevant, examples that when the model is misspecified different versions of ABC can yield substantially different results. Our theoretical results demonstrate that even though the model is misspecified, under regularity conditions, the accept\u2013reject ABC approach concentrates posterior mass on an appropriately defined pseudotrue parameter value. However, under model misspecification the ABC posterior does not yield credible sets with valid frequentist coverage and has non-standard asymptotic behaviour. In addition, we examine the theoretical behaviour of the popular local regression adjustment to ABC under model misspecification and demonstrate that this approach concentrates posterior mass on a pseudotrue value that is completely different from accept\u2013reject ABC. Using our theoretical results, we suggest two approaches to diagnose model misspecification in ABC. 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