Already done. I have been trading with Lumawig and his staff for many years.
I just was wondering if there are others, maybe non professionals, who would be involved in insects there.

Hi all,

I am looking after a relaible contact with a filipono entomologist, dealer or researcher.
I am currently working on a study and prepare a revison on a beetle- (Cerambycidae-) genus, and would need informations.

If you know someone: many thanks for your help!

Pierre Haller
Switzerland

Two places to know and to use:

-> Larry Bezarks Cerambycidae catalogue. A MUST for identifying longhorn beetles.

http://bezbycids.com/byciddb/wdefault.asp?w=n

-> Francesco Vitalis Cerambycidae-forum. A MUST for meeting colleagues, discussing and identifying specimens. A community of Cerambycidae ...

Confirmed by Patrick Arnaud, organizator of this fair.

Confirmed: september 28 / 29, 2024

Not a serious business indeed...

See my topic about this company of November 11, 2023 : viewtopic.php?t=1291

The best address for identifications of Cerambycidae is

https://www.cerambycoidea.com/

Create an acount (it's free, takes less than 30 seconds), and post your pictures. They will be seen by a community of Cerambycidae enthousiasts and specialists, amateurs and professionals.

Hello Jan,

yes, I know the website and the ebay acount. He also has a store on the insct net marked place, mostly empty. Offers some very good items, as you say.

His website works not well. I was surprised to see that some of the pictures he uses are photos from my collection. Pictures that I had ...

Do you have experiences with the british "Insectrum - Worldwide Insect Trade" company?

https://www.insectrum.com/

Pierre

My personal experience: nobody will answer. But I am not living in the USA. Perhaps the problem (also) comes from this side.
Exchanges have become hard to manage.

The first pictures shows Tithoes confinis (Lapoerte de Castelnau, 1840), male.
The pair on the second one should be T. maculatus (Fabricius, 1792) as the site says.
Third photo is most likely confinis again.

Paris show is confirmed