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| Pierre |
Posted - 23/01/2010 : 11:41:29
A pair from Taiwan, Yualo, Chienshin, Hsinchu.
Male 43 mm, female 38 mm.
They were determined as "Dorysthenes hydropicus Pascoe" when I received them. |
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| Francesco |
Posted - 25/01/2015 : 09:37:42
Coming back to this post, it is not evidently P. igai, which has coarsely punctured elytra.
Maybe D. pici, as you said here, but I need to read the description of Dorysthenes elegans Ohbayashi, 1981 |
| Francesco |
Posted - 23/01/2010 : 19:59:46
The lobes of the third tarsal segment seem to me rounded (and not acute as in Cyrtognathus), the pronotum uneven and punctured, and the elytra show a double dorsal ridge; hence, they should be a pair of Dorysthenes (Prionomimus) igai Matsushita, 1941.
Actually, the reddish colouration corresponds better to the definition of the species (endemic from Taiwan) than that of the specimens coming from China. |
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