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Pierre
Member Rosenbergia
Switzerland
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 Posted - 09/04/2011 : 14:02:52
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Can you determinate this (female?) from Peru, 22 mm? |
Edited by - Capitaine on 29/01/2016 10:26:16 |
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Francesco
Forum Admin
Luxembourg
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Posted - 13/04/2011 : 13:17:59
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With so large eyes, it is a Hesperandra (Zikandra), now again Parandra (s. str.).
The only species of this section coming from Peru is Parandra glabra (Degeer, 1774). This should be a female. |
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Pierre
Member Rosenbergia
Switzerland
1755 Posts |
Posted - 13/04/2011 : 20:57:35
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I have some papers (2002 / 2003) on Parandrinae, Santos-Silva has written a lot about these beetles. These notes appear to be rather complicated and the taxonomy of the different genera - subgenera constantly changes. According to your comments this one belongs now to Parandra s. str. again: o.k., I will take note of this.
A couple of years ago have received a pair from French Guyana labelled Hesparandra glabra... can you indicate the last up-to-date version of the Parandrinae - classification? |
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Francesco
Forum Admin
Luxembourg
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Posted - 20/04/2011 : 13:38:33
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Dear Pierre, this new taxonomic change has been recently introduced by Santos-Silva in a very questionable paper, which I will insert in my library.
In the same paper, he revalued Protospondylis (a fossil I synonymised with Parandra) as "Cerambycidae incertae sedis", without observing the type and without providing reasons.
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Pierre
Member Rosenbergia
Switzerland
1755 Posts |
Posted - 20/04/2011 : 21:28:51
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I don't tell here what I am thinking about useless complications like this; the nature is full of dark zones and we really do not need additional confusions.
Thanks for all. |
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Francesco
Forum Admin
Luxembourg
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Posted - 21/04/2011 : 07:55:29
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I completely agree with your opinion.
I just inserted in the Library the mentioned paper, which may be downloaded here. |
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Peru: Parandra (s. str.) glabra ♀
