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Les
Member Purpuricenus
Thailand
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 Posted - 28/05/2012 : 04:06:37
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Tangkoko Nature Reserve.
This one was huge! |
Edited by - Capitaine on 28/01/2016 16:04:08 |
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Les
Member Purpuricenus
Thailand
106 Posts |
Posted - 28/05/2012 : 04:07:51
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Different perspective. |
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Gerard
Scientific Collaborator
France
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Posted - 28/05/2012 : 16:08:41
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| Hello Day, it looks like a Xixuthrus microcerus could it be the size. |
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Francesco
Forum Admin
Luxembourg
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Posted - 28/05/2012 : 21:15:14
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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
106 Posts |
Posted - 29/05/2012 : 03:47:47
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Thank you, both of you.
By the way, Gerard, Les is my forename!  |
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Francesco
Forum Admin
Luxembourg
9431 Posts |
Posted - 29/05/2012 : 07:09:58
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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
Member Nathrius
Italy
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Posted - 03/08/2012 : 19:01:39
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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
Forum Admin
Luxembourg
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Posted - 14/11/2012 : 19:46:22
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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
Member Nathrius
Italy
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Posted - 24/11/2012 : 09:53:39
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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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Sulawesi (NW): Dysiatus melas ♀
