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| orionmystery |
Posted - 22/08/2011 : 11:35:01
Hi Francesco,
this is a small one, only 10 mm, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.
thanks
Kurt |
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| Francesco |
Posted - 10/01/2013 : 09:47:42
Thank you Dan and Andre.
I agree with you; however, the species should be new for Malaysia!
For those who follow us, I remind that Zotale is a subgenus of Mycerinopsis.
Vitalia is a closely related genus with only one species in Indochina, originally described as Zotale.
The difference between these genera are the mesocoxal cavities: open (Mycerinopsis) or closed (Vitalisia).
Breuning (1960) described another species from Sumatra. Actually, it might be a synonym of some Mycerinopsis-species.
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| Andre |
Posted - 09/01/2013 : 23:41:25
Hallo Dan and Francesco.
The "surrounding area" of Mycerinopsis is very difficult. For me is it Zotale unicolor Pascoe,1866.
A better picture from the Type is here. |
| dryobius |
Posted - 09/01/2013 : 23:07:58
Another possibility !
Zotale unicolor
[Holotype in the British Museum, but not a good photograph]
Any serious student of Cerambycidae should try to visit a museum in Europe or somewhere and photograph type specimens. Even the photos I took at BMNH with a small cheap camera have been extremely useful to me.
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| Francesco |
Posted - 06/01/2013 : 11:22:25
Coming back to this topic... your specimen might belong to the genus Vitalisia.
Here a picture from Breuning's monograph of Apomecynini (1964).
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| Francesco |
Posted - 24/08/2011 : 19:13:31
It is about an Apomecynini, but it is very difficult from this position (and without specimen!) |
