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Zhu
Member Demonax
China
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 Posted - 27/03/2020 : 04:04:17
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Dear friends: How are you. Hope you are all fine and healthy against the virus. My heart be with you. If someone need masks and so on I can send you by express.
Here may I ask you to help identify this from timbers of Papua New Guinea. Pleas note there are long spine on the front coxa.
Thank you very much |
Zhu Hongbin
Nanjing, China PR
Plant quarantine lab
Nanjing Customs APFIC |
Edited by - Gerard on 29/03/2020 09:07:23 |
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Zhu
Member Demonax
China
79 Posts |
Posted - 27/03/2020 : 06:14:06
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| Seem to be Rhytiphora heros |
Zhu Hongbin
Nanjing, China PR
Plant quarantine lab
Nanjing Customs APFIC |
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Francesco
Forum Admin
Luxembourg
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Posted - 27/03/2020 : 10:25:22
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Rhytiphora heros is an Australian species.
The antennae do not show fringed hairs; hence, it is not a Rhytiphora either.
With those coxal spines, it is a male of Prosoplus, subgenus Escharodes.
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Xavier
Scientific Collaborator
France
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Posted - 27/03/2020 : 10:27:39
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Your species could belong to genus Xiphotheata Pascoe, 1864 (Pteropliini tribe). 3 species are known.
I know 2 of them; so your species could be the third one, Xiphotheata luctifera Fairmaire, 1881 ? |
Edited by - Xavier on 27/03/2020 10:28:24 |
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dryobius
Member Rosenbergia
USA
1885 Posts |
Posted - 27/03/2020 : 12:04:34
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| Not Xiphotheata, consider Francisco's suggestion/ |
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Francesco
Forum Admin
Luxembourg
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Posted - 27/03/2020 : 12:27:37
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The most similar species is Prosoplus interruptus (Pascoe, 1864), but P. carinicollis (Pascoe, 1864) can be another possibility.
Here (p. 71), you can find both English original descriptions. |
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Xavier
Scientific Collaborator
France
12137 Posts |
Posted - 27/03/2020 : 13:27:57
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quote:
Originally posted by dryobius
Not Xiphotheata, consider Francisco's suggestion/
Yes, probably not. It was just an idea. |
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Zhu
Member Demonax
China
79 Posts |
Posted - 27/03/2020 : 13:43:32
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| Thanks so much. It is great to here from you. Hopefully you are all well self isolated. I check the old world cerambycidae catalog website and those images even confused me. I will study the Pascoe's paper and see how to name it. May God bless you. And may I copy some words here, isolation, neutrition, excise, and good motion. These will help. Best wishes. |
Zhu Hongbin
Nanjing, China PR
Plant quarantine lab
Nanjing Customs APFIC |
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Gontran
Member Rosenbergia
Canada
1150 Posts |
Posted - 27/03/2020 : 14:40:14
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Just for comparison, from PNG, Morobe Prov., Bulolo (it's not a very precise data anyway). Was received identified as Ischhioplites metutus (Pascoe, 1859).
I keep this name but I always have some doubts for these genera. |
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Zhu
Member Demonax
China
79 Posts |
Posted - 27/03/2020 : 14:50:36
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| Dear Gontran: This seem to be Rhytiphora metutus. It was showed in the book of Australian cerambycidae Vol. 1 Laminiinae. |
Zhu Hongbin
Nanjing, China PR
Plant quarantine lab
Nanjing Customs APFIC |
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Gontran
Member Rosenbergia
Canada
1150 Posts |
Posted - 27/03/2020 : 15:20:37
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| Yes. It's just to compare those extended hornlike coaxae. And thanks to Francesco for Longicornia malayana. |
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Xaurus
Member Rosenbergia
Germany
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Posted - 29/03/2020 : 00:56:44
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| for me Ischioplites metutus (Pascoe, 1859) too, the tomentation of Zhu's spm is not in good condition |
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Zhu
Member Demonax
China
79 Posts |
Posted - 30/03/2020 : 03:45:37
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Dear Dr. Xaurus : But my spm does not have spine on the outer angle of the end of the elytra. The two imgs are two specimens seem to be male and female. Both of them have a round elytral tip.
it is confusing indeed. |
Zhu Hongbin
Nanjing, China PR
Plant quarantine lab
Nanjing Customs APFIC |
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Zhu
Member Demonax
China
79 Posts |
Posted - 30/03/2020 : 04:13:00
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| And the spines not as long as the femora, but only half. |
Zhu Hongbin
Nanjing, China PR
Plant quarantine lab
Nanjing Customs APFIC |
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Zhu
Member Demonax
China
79 Posts |
Posted - 30/03/2020 : 04:23:21
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How about Axiothea strenua
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Zhu Hongbin
Nanjing, China PR
Plant quarantine lab
Nanjing Customs APFIC |
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Zhu
Member Demonax
China
79 Posts |
Posted - 30/03/2020 : 04:28:33
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because the out line of the fore tibia is curved
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