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| Marco A. Lopez |
Posted - 29/10/2008 : 12:41:49
This species came Playa Babaro, Higüey dep. Dominican Republic.
Please help me identified this insects.
Thank you very much for your help. wonderful site, congratulations.
Marco. |
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| Francesco |
Posted - 02/10/2012 : 10:27:59
Following my suspect, Santos-Silva & Lingafelter have recently published a paper (2012, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 52/27: 315-332), restating this species in the genus Xixuthrus. |
| Francesco |
Posted - 29/10/2008 : 22:24:02
Your species is a male of Xixuthrus domingoensis Fisher, 1932, whose type (above) is preserved in the USNM Washington.
As you can notice, this longhorn has been originally described as belonging to an Indo-Australian genus.
More recently, it has been transferred to the South-American genus Mecosarthron, of which you can see another species in the Gallery. Frankly speaking, I'm not completely sure about this taxonomic change… |
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