Hi Chuck,
I'm pretty confident that #7 is Cylindrepomus grammicus Pascoe, 1860. It is the only species currently recorded from the Solomons and matches nicely images of this species on the Cerambycidae Catalog website: http://bezbycids.com/byciddb/wdetails.asp?id=30743&w=o
Cheers!
Bandrow
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- Fri Dec 29, 2023 10:05 pm
- Forum: Insect identification
- Topic: Please ID Solomon Islands Cerambycidae, Curculionidae
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2311
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 12:22 am
- Forum: Insect identification
- Topic: Please ID Solomon Islands Cerambycidae, Curculionidae
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2311
Re: Please ID Solomon Islands Cerambycidae, Curculionidae
Hi Again,
Success in getting a species name on number 2 - Glenea (Glenea) aluensis Gahan 1897...
Cheers!
Bandrow
Success in getting a species name on number 2 - Glenea (Glenea) aluensis Gahan 1897...
Cheers!
Bandrow
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 12:12 am
- Forum: Insect identification
- Topic: Please ID Solomon Islands Cerambycidae, Curculionidae
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2311
Re: Please ID Solomon Islands Cerambycidae, Curculionidae
Howdy, Numbers 4, 10 and 11 are in another huge genus, Tmesisternus . Numbers 6, 8 and 9 are in yet another big genus (although getting smaller in numbers than the two previous), Acalolepta . Number 7 is in the genus Cylindrepomus . Number 5 is a mystery to me - I'll have to dig more on that one. Th...
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 11:47 pm
- Forum: Insect identification
- Topic: Please ID Solomon Islands Cerambycidae, Curculionidae
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2311
Re: Please ID Solomon Islands Cerambycidae, Curculionidae
Greetings, Here are some more names, at least to the genus level. Images 2, 3, 12 and 13 are species in the genus Glenea sensu latu. This genus is one of the largest in the Cerambycidae, probably exceeding 500 or more species, primarily distributed in SE Asia and the greater Indo-Australian region, ...
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 12:42 am
- Forum: Insect identification
- Topic: Please ID Solomon Islands Cerambycidae, Curculionidae
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2311
Re: Please ID Solomon Islands Cerambycidae, Curculionidae
The second piece of fruit is #1 - this is a species of Anthribidae - the fungus weevils. The length of antennae relative to body length in some tropical species rival the Cerambycidae, and these are often sold on commercial sites as cerambycids. The antennae differ in length between the sexes like i...
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 12:38 am
- Forum: Insect identification
- Topic: Please ID Solomon Islands Cerambycidae, Curculionidae
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2311
Re: Please ID Solomon Islands Cerambycidae, Curculionidae
The last one without a doubt is Leptorhabdium pictum - an eastern U.S. species in the Lepturinae, and feeds in dead, rotting wood. So, this one is clearly mislabeled - knocking off the low-hanging fruit first!
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 12:34 am
- Forum: Insect identification
- Topic: Please ID Solomon Islands Cerambycidae, Curculionidae
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2311
Re: Please ID Solomon Islands Cerambycidae, Curculionidae
Greetings! I'm going to accept this as a poke and a challenge, as I should have done this months ago!! The bark beetle work this year has consumed all of my time - one of the worst years ever - but that excuse is getting old for anyone that knows me. Give me a day or two and I'll get you as many nam...
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 6:21 pm
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: Visit to Carnegie & Bandrow
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3711
Re: Visit to Carnegie & Bandrow
Hi Chuck, I have to agree with you on all points - especially the refocusing of the academic world to generating income, with the epitome of that being the prioritization of sports over funding, say, a new library. As for the general trend, I can only speak for what I see here in my institution, and...
- Sun Jul 16, 2023 5:02 pm
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: Visit to Carnegie & Bandrow
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3711
Re: Visit to Carnegie & Bandrow
Hi Chuck, Looks like I'm running a month behind, as usual! Hard to answer your question as I suspect the importance of collection access for non-monetized research interests depends largely on the perspective of individual board members and administrators. The few board members that I've ever gotten...
- Fri Jul 07, 2023 6:03 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Accidentally faked color morph: Nicrophorus
- Replies: 4
- Views: 691
Re: Accidentally faked color morph: Nicrophorus
Hi Chuck,
I think you're on the level - this appears to be a specimen of Nicrophorus tomentosus, which has dense yellowish pubescence on the pronotum - the only species in the U.S. with a hairy pronotum...
No fakery here!
Cheers!
Bandrow
I think you're on the level - this appears to be a specimen of Nicrophorus tomentosus, which has dense yellowish pubescence on the pronotum - the only species in the U.S. with a hairy pronotum...
No fakery here!
Cheers!
Bandrow
- Sat Jun 17, 2023 6:48 pm
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: Visit to Carnegie & Bandrow
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3711
Re: Visit to Carnegie & Bandrow
Greetings, I see I need to check in more often - when one stays away too long, someone posts an incriminating picture!! ;) Now I'm on the web holding a drawer of leps for all my coleopterist colleagues to see... It was great having Chuck visit and I hope there were enough intriguing specimens to lur...
- Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:37 pm
- Forum: Coleoptera
- Topic: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
- Replies: 65
- Views: 14752
Re: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
Very nice - I'd love to see these alive to see how they move those antennae...
- Sat Mar 18, 2023 1:06 am
- Forum: Coleoptera
- Topic: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
- Replies: 65
- Views: 14752
Re: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
Forgot to mention - Onychocerus and Cyclopeplus are in the same tribe, Anisocerini. Here is another spectacular species in the tribe, Hoplistocerus refulgens (image from Larry Bezark's Cerambycidae Catalog site): Hoplistocerus_refulgens.jpg And one more - the only species of the tribe present in the...
- Sat Mar 18, 2023 12:56 am
- Forum: Coleoptera
- Topic: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
- Replies: 65
- Views: 14752
Re: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
Hi boghaunter1 , Your round green cerambycid that you suspected to be the "stinging" species is a species of Cyclopeplus , and I believe it is probably Cyclopeplus peruvianus . This is a genus that has eluded me - the few I've seen available were out of my tax bracket! Some of the species ...
- Sat Mar 18, 2023 12:44 am
- Forum: Coleoptera
- Topic: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
- Replies: 65
- Views: 14752
Re: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
Nice specimens! Doliops is a very cool group indeed!
The smaller, roundish species in your images is Anisocerus stellatus, in the lamiine tribe Anisocerini. The larger spiny ones are Polyraphis spinosa in the lamiine tribe Polyraphidini.
Cheers!
Bandrow
The smaller, roundish species in your images is Anisocerus stellatus, in the lamiine tribe Anisocerini. The larger spiny ones are Polyraphis spinosa in the lamiine tribe Polyraphidini.
Cheers!
Bandrow
- Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:30 am
- Forum: Coleoptera
- Topic: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
- Replies: 65
- Views: 14752
Re: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
And to think their closest apparent relatives are the Salpingidae! I don't think there's a NA salpingid that breaks 10 mm in length - here are a couple of links to typical NA salpingids (although few salpingids could be called "typical" beetles): https://bugguide.net/node/view/953537 https...
- Sat Mar 11, 2023 10:34 pm
- Forum: Coleoptera
- Topic: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
- Replies: 65
- Views: 14752
Re: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
One would certainly not need to see the bottom for ID! I have several of these, and to be honest, I can't recall ever really examining the underside of them - I'll have to flip one over and see what I've been missing!!
Cheers!
Bandrow
Cheers!
Bandrow
- Sat Mar 11, 2023 12:45 am
- Forum: Coleoptera
- Topic: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
- Replies: 65
- Views: 14752
Re: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
Hi All, This is a beautifully prepared specimen and a wonderful image. But please tell me I'm half-blind and that this is not on a massive platen?! Surely the gray is just a highlight feature of the image. I only ask because I did once receive in an exchange years ago a specimen of a prionid around ...
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 11:03 pm
- Forum: Coleoptera
- Topic: Unusual and/or unique Scarabeidae
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6186
Re: Unusual and/or unique Scarabeidae
Hi Trehopr1,
Cool bugs indeed! Your white-striped specimens are some species of Polyphylla, but it's a big genus with many very similar species. Same goes for the large ones - these are all species of Lepidiota - I guess one could call them "May beetles on steroids"!
Cheers!
Bandrow
Cool bugs indeed! Your white-striped specimens are some species of Polyphylla, but it's a big genus with many very similar species. Same goes for the large ones - these are all species of Lepidiota - I guess one could call them "May beetles on steroids"!
Cheers!
Bandrow
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 4:50 pm
- Forum: Coleoptera
- Topic: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
- Replies: 65
- Views: 14752
Re: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
Hi Kevinkk, It sounds like collecting Pleocoma is definitely a deliberate act - not just incidental! Running a blacklight in the rain in the winter is surely not the usual activity, and then knowing exactly when to try is more of a challenge. Of course, collecting the males is childs' play compared ...