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| Les |
Posted - 28/05/2012 : 04:06:37
Tangkoko Nature Reserve.
This one was huge! |
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| Paolo |
Posted - 24/11/2012 : 09:53:39
Xixuthrus bufo at the moment has been described in the Moluccas (not Sulawesi), Dysiatus melas in Sulawesi and perhaps in Sangir.
I have 1 Xixuthrus bufo male and 2 females from Sulawesi. Some other specimens from Halmahera and Morotai. They have same features.
I have never seen Xixuthrus microcerus microcerus from Sulawesi or Moluccas (it is really recorded from there?).
The variability of Xixuthrus family allows to hypothesize other Xixuthrus species in this area. |
| Francesco |
Posted - 14/11/2012 : 19:46:22
Thank you for the confirmation.
Concerning bufo I do not know. Actually, Lameere (1912) reported from Sulawesi just microcerus.
X. bufo was only recorded from the Moluccas. |
| Paolo |
Posted - 03/08/2012 : 19:01:39
The specimen on the image is a Dysiatus melas: female.
On Sulawesi the other Xixuthrus available is: Xixuthrus bufo, a small species of Xixuthrus. No other species of Xixuthrus are reported. |
| Francesco |
Posted - 29/05/2012 : 07:09:58
Dysiatus melas Pascoe, 1869
Evidently, something did not go... it is a female of Dysiatus melas Pascoe, 1869, endemic from Sulawesi.
Here Pascoe's original drawing of the male. |
| Les |
Posted - 29/05/2012 : 03:47:47
Thank you, both of you.
By the way, Gerard, Les is my forename!  |
| Francesco |
Posted - 28/05/2012 : 21:15:14
In Sulawesi, the subspecies microcerus microcerus is widespread.
It should be a female, though the pubescence seems to be missing. It seems rather a female of the subspecies microcerus lunicollis... |
| Gerard |
Posted - 28/05/2012 : 16:08:41
Hello Day, it looks like a Xixuthrus microcerus could it be the size. |
| Les |
Posted - 28/05/2012 : 04:07:51
Different perspective. |
