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Xavier
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Posted - 11/07/2012 :  12:58:48  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote



12-14 mm. Hua Phan, Nord Est Laos.
Xylotrechus incurvatus (Chevrolat, 1863), pour le forum.

Francesco
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Posted - 12/07/2012 :  10:45:24  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit Francesco's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Merci beaucoup, Xavier!
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Xavier
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Posted - 12/07/2012 :  14:39:15  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
Sur le site de A. Gordinski, je trouve une photographie semblable à mon premier spécimen identifiée également comme Xylotrechus incurvatus.
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horshehden
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Posted - 12/07/2012 :  14:59:52  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote

Well, the most important point here is what actually is X. incurvatus?
If it is the species I collected in Taiwan, your determination is not correct.
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Xavier
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Posted - 12/07/2012 :  15:44:35  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
Well, that's what I said !(sorry for my English, but I'm French !) I don't know if yours is a good X. incurvatus, and likely, mines are not.
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Francesco
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Posted - 12/07/2012 :  16:00:28  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit Francesco's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Very interesting topic!
X. arcuatus was described as Amauresthes from two specimens coming from Hong-Kong.
Here is the original description... I do not exactly recognise none of that specimens.
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Xavier
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Posted - 12/07/2012 :  16:39:20  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
I read the description...
The main difference between pictures 1 and 3 is the space between second and third lignes. But one detail tell me that Horshehden specimen is closer from X. incurvatus : "la deuxième ligne se terminant à la hauteur de son début". It's not working for my specimen.
Can you separate the second picture and create a new post ? It's really another species.
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Francesco
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Posted - 12/07/2012 :  16:50:56  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit Francesco's Homepage  Reply with Quote
No problem...
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Xavier
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Posted - 12/07/2012 :  18:03:45  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
thanks Francesco
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Francesco
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Posted - 13/07/2012 :  09:41:42  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit Francesco's Homepage  Reply with Quote
The former one is probably X. contortus Gahan, 1906, while the latter one is X. incurvatus.
Both species may be seen in this paper (p. 193, fig. 18-19).

According to Gressitt (1951: p. 244-245), the former species is subspecies of the latter one, but this is another delirium of this entomologist.
In fact, both "subspecies" are present in Manipur (Gahan, 1906: 249), Taiwan (Matshushita, 1933: 269-270), Assam and South China (Gressitt, 1951!).
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Xavier
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Posted - 13/07/2012 :  11:20:31  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
What a job Francesco ! Thank you very much !
Thanks a lot to horshehden for his picture.
I have seen that something didn't work..., but now it seems clear.
I've got 6 or 7 specimens of Xylotrechus contortus, and it's a stable species on this series.
I've got probably 50 species of Clytini with no name coming from Laos, and this post gives me some courage.
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Xavier
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Posted - 13/07/2012 :  11:40:15  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
Descriptions of both species given by Gahan are "determining".
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horshehden
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Posted - 26/08/2012 :  11:49:40  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote

Another species from the same group as X. incurvatus.
Central Sechuan, this time.
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nalslan
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Posted - 16/12/2012 :  14:00:26  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote



I have one similar to this collected from Guizhou province which is a province next to southern Sichuan of China.
I guess it probably is a var or a subspecies of X. incurvatus.

Edited by - nalslan on 16/12/2012 14:07:59
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Xavier
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Posted - 16/12/2012 :  14:21:13  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
Welcome Nalslan
I agree with you ; it seems to be the same species.

Edited by - Xavier on 16/12/2012 14:23:25
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nalslan
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Posted - 17/12/2012 :  11:46:20  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Xavier

Welcome Nalslan
I agree with you ; it seems to be the same species.



Xavier, thank you very much.
I found this website and its forum and the users are very friendly and helpful, especially to me, a beginner to cerambycid id (I usually did not do this myself).
I hope I won't abuse it, though I might more or less do it.
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