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Les |
Posted - 31/07/2013 : 10:01:15 ![](/public/imgforum/Les/201373110036_IMG_9640.jpg) ![](/public/imgforum/Les/201373110059_IMG_9645.jpg)
Any help on identifying this small (c. 15 mm, I think) species found in the rest area of Danum Valley Research Station, Sabah. Thanks. |
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Les |
Posted - 11/08/2013 : 08:26:09 Thank you very much. |
Francesco |
Posted - 10/08/2013 : 07:47:41 Finally, I came back! ![](images/icon_smile_big.gif)
Certainly, it is about an Agelasta (Mesosini). It might be a dark form of Agelasta balteata Pascoe, 1866 (below the original drawing), close to the variety (?) niasica von Breuning, 1939, which has two elytral bands.
![](/public/imgforum/Francesco/201381074010_agelastabalteata.JPG) Agelasta balteata Pascoe, 1866, Pl. XXVI, Fig. 9
The problem is that this species is not quoted from Borneo, though a specimen identifiable as such was sent to our forum here. ![](images/icon_smile_question.gif)
The only other species of the subgenus Epagelasta is A. newmanni White, 1856, just from Borneo (Sarawak). It differs from that species in the pronotum having a transverse band and in the elytra always having 2 large transverse bands. In the original drawing (below) it was painted as blue but actually, it is brown covered with a bluish-grey velvet.
![](/public/imgforum/Francesco/201381073952_agelasta_newmanni.JPG) Agelasta newmanni White, 1856, Pl. XL, Fig. 15 |
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