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Larry Bezark
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Posted - 17/03/2015 :  18:21:19  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote

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from Royal Natal national Park, RSA

Pierre-Olivier Maquart
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Posted - 17/03/2015 :  18:52:12  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
Hi,

Could it be Oxilus elegans ?
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Gerard
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Posted - 17/03/2015 :  19:15:42  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
Ou Oxilus gazella (Jordan, 1903) peut être?
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Francesco
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Posted - 17/03/2015 :  20:01:17  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit Francesco's Homepage  Reply with Quote
It also seems O. mozambicus.
Does it show a smooth hairless premedian band on the elytra?
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Jérôme Sudre
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Posted - 17/03/2015 :  20:39:26  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
Seems to be O mozambicus ? is it possible to have a better photo?
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Larry Bezark
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Posted - 18/03/2015 :  17:58:24  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
Yes, there is a distinct glabrous pre-median band.

Attached is another image,

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Jérôme Sudre
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Posted - 18/03/2015 :  22:19:21  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
Yes but this glabrous premediane band is also present at O gazella! However, at O gazella yellowish bead is smooth and linear to the suture. By cons at O mozambicus this bead is regular and linear over the three quarters of its length and rises abruptly on the suture and somehow gives a shape of tightning like a funnel upside down.

I have several ex in collection of 11 different taxa determined by Adlbauer, Mourglia and myself and the species that could relate to the individual picture would or O mozambicus or elegans. But there may be errors also .....
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Jérôme Sudre
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Posted - 23/03/2015 :  11:53:56  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
O mozambicus or gazella and not elegans as I wrote in the previous post.
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