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Les
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Thailand
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Posted - 28/05/2012 :  04:06:37  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote


Tangkoko Nature Reserve.
This one was huge!

Edited by - Capitaine on 28/01/2016 16:04:08

Les
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Thailand
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Posted - 28/05/2012 :  04:07:51  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote

Different perspective.
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Gerard
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France
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Posted - 28/05/2012 :  16:08:41  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
Hello Day, it looks like a Xixuthrus microcerus could it be the size.
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Francesco
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Posted - 28/05/2012 :  21:15:14  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit Francesco's Homepage  Reply with Quote
In Sulawesi, the subspecies microcerus microcerus is widespread.
It should be a female, though the pubescence seems to be missing. It seems rather a female of the subspecies microcerus lunicollis...
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Les
Member Purpuricenus

Thailand
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Posted - 29/05/2012 :  03:47:47  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
Thank you, both of you.
By the way, Gerard, Les is my forename!
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Francesco
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Posted - 29/05/2012 :  07:09:58  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit Francesco's Homepage  Reply with Quote

Dysiatus melas Pascoe, 1869

Evidently, something did not go... it is a female of Dysiatus melas Pascoe, 1869, endemic from Sulawesi.
Here Pascoe's original drawing of the male.
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Paolo
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Italy
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Posted - 03/08/2012 :  19:01:39  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit Paolo's Homepage  Reply with Quote
The specimen on the image is a Dysiatus melas: female.
On Sulawesi the other Xixuthrus available is: Xixuthrus bufo, a small species of Xixuthrus. No other species of Xixuthrus are reported.
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Francesco
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Posted - 14/11/2012 :  19:46:22  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit Francesco's Homepage  Reply with Quote

Thank you for the confirmation.
Concerning bufo I do not know. Actually, Lameere (1912) reported from Sulawesi just microcerus.
X. bufo was only recorded from the Moluccas.
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Paolo
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Italy
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Posted - 24/11/2012 :  09:53:39  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit Paolo's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Xixuthrus bufo at the moment has been described in the Moluccas (not Sulawesi), Dysiatus melas in Sulawesi and perhaps in Sangir.
I have 1 Xixuthrus bufo male and 2 females from Sulawesi. Some other specimens from Halmahera and Morotai. They have same features.
I have never seen Xixuthrus microcerus microcerus from Sulawesi or Moluccas (it is really recorded from there?).
The variability of Xixuthrus family allows to hypothesize other Xixuthrus species in this area.
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