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Gyula
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Hungary
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Posted - 20/10/2011 :  19:48:24  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote


bonjour,
Afrika, Kenya
10 mm.
merci.

Francesco
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Luxembourg
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Posted - 03/11/2011 :  17:50:22  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit Francesco's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Due to its short antennal segment III, it seems to me Caediscum imperiale Lefkovich, 1962 (Smodicini).
The species is known from Uganda and Zaire and might be new for Kenya.
You can download the revision with keys and pictures here.
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Riana
Member Rosalia

South Africa
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Posted - 02/12/2016 :  16:43:56  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
consider Obriini - Mythozoum (Dr Adlbauer suggested this for a very similar looking Cerambycid)
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Francesco
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Posted - 03/12/2016 :  10:33:47  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit Francesco's Homepage  Reply with Quote
It is a good idea, but I do not recognize the Kenyan M. orientale.
Might it be M. somaliense? (paratype here)
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Riana
Member Rosalia

South Africa
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Posted - 03/12/2016 :  13:20:00  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
Hi Francesco, looking at the outline of the pronotum, does this not tend more to M. orientale?. Sama 1994,indicates that M. somaliense has a less pronounced lateral outline, refer to fig 6 & 7 - Sama G, 1994 Les genres Daramus Fairmaire et Tetropiopsis Chobaut en Afrique du Nord (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Hesperophanini). L'Entomologiste, Paris 50 (3): 169-180. http://lentomologiste.fr/wp-content/uploads/1994-50/lentomologiste_1994_50_3.pdf.
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Riana
Member Rosalia

South Africa
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Posted - 05/12/2016 :  08:17:16  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote

photo credit: Robert Taylor Ispotnature.org

Here is the Mythozoum orientalis from South Africa; Natal; Mtunzini (ident. K. Adlbauer) for comparison.

Edited by - Riana on 05/12/2016 08:30:39
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Francesco
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Posted - 07/12/2016 :  16:56:56  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit Francesco's Homepage  Reply with Quote

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This is the type of Mythozoum orientale Quentin & Villiers 1979.
It is a female, but the pronotum seems to me more angulate at the sides than Gyula's specimen.
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