Below are the photos I took last year.





Great photos! You might try contacting Peter Chew, who has a rather extensive website about the insects of the Brisbane area -
Agreed! I have only one species of Calodema in my collection, C. ribbei (a pair), from Papua New Guinea -
You're fortunate to have C. regalis; I saw a specimen (ssp. blairi) sell for the (inflated) price of over USD $500 at auction several years ago. The bidding wars on some of these Australasian buprestidae can get rather ridiculous. C. wallacei is even scarcer in collections -
I too, seem to vaguely recall hearing about that.kevinkk wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 10:02 pm Those are some beautiful beetles- as if they all aren't. just some are better than others...
I read once in an insect book that during a piano concerto a beetle emerged out of the wood the piano was made of. I don't recall the book,
but there was some conjecture about how something like that could occur. "Is there an entomologist in the house!?"
Thank you very much! This year doesn't look like a good year and I haven't seen any Calodema so far.Lucanidae25 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 4:31 am Ken consider yourself very lucky to come across it. It took me more than 10 years of looking every year before I caught my 1st Calodema regalis. You can look at the same area every year unless all the conditions are perfect they won't come out. I don't think you need to find new areas instead you need to find the right year. There is no pattern with their emergences over the years
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