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by bandrow
Fri Dec 29, 2023 10:05 pm
Forum: Insect identification
Topic: Please ID Solomon Islands Cerambycidae, Curculionidae
Replies: 13
Views: 2056

Re: Please ID Solomon Islands Cerambycidae, Curculionidae

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
by bandrow
Mon Dec 25, 2023 12:22 am
Forum: Insect identification
Topic: Please ID Solomon Islands Cerambycidae, Curculionidae
Replies: 13
Views: 2056

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
by bandrow
Mon Dec 25, 2023 12:12 am
Forum: Insect identification
Topic: Please ID Solomon Islands Cerambycidae, Curculionidae
Replies: 13
Views: 2056

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...
by bandrow
Sun Dec 24, 2023 11:47 pm
Forum: Insect identification
Topic: Please ID Solomon Islands Cerambycidae, Curculionidae
Replies: 13
Views: 2056

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, ...
by bandrow
Sun Dec 24, 2023 12:42 am
Forum: Insect identification
Topic: Please ID Solomon Islands Cerambycidae, Curculionidae
Replies: 13
Views: 2056

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...
by bandrow
Sun Dec 24, 2023 12:38 am
Forum: Insect identification
Topic: Please ID Solomon Islands Cerambycidae, Curculionidae
Replies: 13
Views: 2056

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!
by bandrow
Sun Dec 24, 2023 12:34 am
Forum: Insect identification
Topic: Please ID Solomon Islands Cerambycidae, Curculionidae
Replies: 13
Views: 2056

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...
by bandrow
Mon Jul 17, 2023 6:21 pm
Forum: Field Reports
Topic: Visit to Carnegie & Bandrow
Replies: 14
Views: 3457

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...
by bandrow
Sun Jul 16, 2023 5:02 pm
Forum: Field Reports
Topic: Visit to Carnegie & Bandrow
Replies: 14
Views: 3457

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...
by bandrow
Fri Jul 07, 2023 6:03 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: Accidentally faked color morph: Nicrophorus
Replies: 4
Views: 659

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
by bandrow
Sat Jun 17, 2023 6:48 pm
Forum: Field Reports
Topic: Visit to Carnegie & Bandrow
Replies: 14
Views: 3457

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...
by bandrow
Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:37 pm
Forum: Coleoptera
Topic: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
Replies: 65
Views: 13260

Re: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance

Very nice - I'd love to see these alive to see how they move those antennae...
by bandrow
Sat Mar 18, 2023 1:06 am
Forum: Coleoptera
Topic: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
Replies: 65
Views: 13260

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...
by bandrow
Sat Mar 18, 2023 12:56 am
Forum: Coleoptera
Topic: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
Replies: 65
Views: 13260

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 ...
by bandrow
Sat Mar 18, 2023 12:44 am
Forum: Coleoptera
Topic: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
Replies: 65
Views: 13260

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
by bandrow
Tue Mar 14, 2023 1:30 am
Forum: Coleoptera
Topic: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
Replies: 65
Views: 13260

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...
by bandrow
Sat Mar 11, 2023 10:34 pm
Forum: Coleoptera
Topic: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
Replies: 65
Views: 13260

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
by bandrow
Sat Mar 11, 2023 12:45 am
Forum: Coleoptera
Topic: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
Replies: 65
Views: 13260

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 ...
by bandrow
Thu Mar 09, 2023 11:03 pm
Forum: Coleoptera
Topic: Unusual and/or unique Scarabeidae
Replies: 35
Views: 5467

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
by bandrow
Thu Mar 09, 2023 4:50 pm
Forum: Coleoptera
Topic: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
Replies: 65
Views: 13260

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 ...