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cerambyphil
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Posted - 20/03/2013 :  22:52:59  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote

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Bacan, 25 mm

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Xaurus
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Posted - 21/03/2013 :  00:54:20  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
Eczemotes spec.
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cerambyphil
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Posted - 21/03/2013 :  12:48:48  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
Thank you Xaurus.
My spm seems close to the following species.
Is it identicaly ?

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Xaurus
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Posted - 22/03/2013 :  11:55:41  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
It could be also Sotades platypus, I don't know the differentation between Sotades and Eczemotes well, maybe the scapus is different (Sotades: short and thick, Eczemotes: longer, less thick).
I have id my spms acc to material preserved in ZMB, but I'm not satisfied as well. Furthermore I haven't seen any type material of both genera.
Remarkable are the long spine on the fore coxae by the males, not mentioned in Breuning's revision. You have males with spines ?
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cerambyphil
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Posted - 22/03/2013 :  16:11:12  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
No Xaurus, I just have one spm above. it has a light process on the metasternum.

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Posted - 23/03/2013 :  13:37:26  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit Francesco's Homepage  Reply with Quote
According to Breuning, Sotades differs from Eczemotes in the shape of the prosternum: posteriorly truncated rather than rounded.
There is only one species (?) widespread in the Moluccas.
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Xaurus
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Posted - 23/03/2013 :  15:23:59  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
Dear Francesco,

I have checked all my Eczemotes (W-Papua, PNG, Aru) they have a behind rounded prosternal process, the mesosternal process is truncated anteriorly and with a tubercle.
I have only 1 female from Halmahera could be Sotades platypus. Have your males of Sotades the typical spines on the fore coxae ?

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Francesco
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Posted - 23/03/2013 :  16:01:11  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit Francesco's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Dear Andreas, I have not got this species in my collection.
I have observed that long spines on male procoxae are present in the Prosoplus sg. Escharodes. Convergent evolution or taxonomic mistake?
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Andre
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Posted - 23/03/2013 :  17:38:12  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
An interesting thema.
In the picture the underside of my Sotades platypus from Hiri Isl. (left site: Female; right site: Male with very small spines!)


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Here the underside of a female of Eczemotes granulosa Breuning from Raja Ampat/ Batanta.
The prosternum is nearly the same as by Sotades. The male have the same spines as S. platypus!


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I also have 2 males of cf. Eczemotes undata M. from Kei Isl.
The large male (28 mm) has distinctly spines, the small male / (Picture, 21 mm) without spines !!!
Collected on the same wood.
I mean the best difference is the scape.


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cerambyphil
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Posted - 24/03/2013 :  09:59:52  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
Here is the prosternum of my spm :


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Sotades or Eczemotes ?

Edited by - cerambyphil on 24/03/2013 10:01:07
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Francesco
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Posted - 24/03/2013 :  10:09:35  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit Francesco's Homepage  Reply with Quote
It seems to me rounded, but a lateral view is preferable.
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Andre
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Posted - 24/03/2013 :  11:16:36  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
I think Philippe's Spec. is Sotades platypus, the same as mine Spec. from Hiri Isl. / left site (near Ternate, Typ - Loc. from Sotades platypus).


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The best differences to Eczemotes is might be the different scape.
Left site: Sotades from Hiri Isl. and right site Eczemotes cf. undata from Kei Isl.


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cerambyphil
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Posted - 24/03/2013 :  12:58:42  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
Voici vue de profil du prosternuim et scape :



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Edited by - cerambyphil on 24/03/2013 13:04:47
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Francesco
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Posted - 24/03/2013 :  13:30:15  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit Francesco's Homepage  Reply with Quote
On ne voit pas beaucoup... de toute façon le scape est globuleux (erste Glied kurz, stark gekeult): Sotades platypus.
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Xaurus
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Posted - 25/03/2013 :  00:50:09  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
Yes, I agree, the scapus is different in Sotades and Eczemotes and by the later the granules on the surface are different and also on the legs.
Within the genus Eczemotes there is still a confusion, first I'll check the original descriptions and type material too. Maybe Breuning described the males in the genus Escharodes because nothing is mentioned by Eczemotes about the coxal spines.
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