This website has now 1,200 images from my collection! Many more still to come.
I have added new scarabaeidae photos in this site, ten in fact including the aedeagi.
My Xyoltrupes gideon philippinensis ENDROEDI 1957 (right) has been with me for quite a while but haven’t taken a photo of it. This specimen from Luzon showing the dorsal and lateral views was given to me by a friend who got many specimens from Bataan.
Papuana lansbergei SCHAUFUSS 1887 is a small dynastid beetle from Mindanao that I’ve got a few years ago. It’s rather uncommon and is usually collected during night especially with lights. I added two views of the same aedeagus of the male to illustrate it. In most scarabs, this part is one key element in identifying it down to species level. Especially helpful in a number of Protaetia and Parastasia genera and others from the subfamilies Melolonthinae and Rutelinae.
The third dynastid beetle photos that I’ve added is the lateral and head view of Oryctes gnu MOHNIKE 1874, a bigger, more robust and rarer species compared to it’s relative, O. rhinocerus LINNAEUS 1758. This was collected in Mindanao.
I’ve added three images of Glycyphana (Caloglycyphana) rubromarginata MOHNIKE 1873 consisting of a female, male and its aedeagus (male sexual organ).
Lastly, a Dasyvalgus sp. completes the list. The subfamily Valgiinae in the Philippines is represented with only a few species of which this genus comprises the biggest, consisting of around eight small species less than a centimeter long. I’m not sure what this is but since it was collected in Busuanga it might probably be D. palawanus. But I still have to check the literature to confirm this one.
Additional photos of Cerambycid beetles were added to this site consisting of four species:
- male, normal form, Schmidtiana gertrudis HUDEPOHL 1983
- female, Batocera numitor NEWMAN 1842
- female, Abryna (Faustabryna) metallica BREUNING 1938, and
- another Callimetopus sp.
Well, no new species but these provides how the different sexes would look like. Check out the individual pages.
Finally, I have finished redesigning all Curculionidae gallery pages. What took me so long was the group Metapocyrtus which had so many images to be resized and processed. Add to that the arrangment of 57 individual photos to fit in one page, the biggest so far in this site, belonging to the group and really, it’s kind of bloody.
However, looking at the new layout of this family’s page and you will just be amazed at the spectacular colors and patterns especially those in the Tribe Pachyrrhynchini. It’s like looking at a lightbox of beautiful specimens.
Star of the group is of course, those under the genus Pachyrrhynchus of which there are several images from different parts of the country both identified and unidentified. It is then followed by the genus Metapocyrtus, other Pachyrrhynchini species, Alcidodes (group 1 and 2) and Celebia genera and finally, other Curculionid species that took my fancy.
Roberto Mignani of Roma Tre sent me an email regarding the Bolboceratidae in the Philippines as he has seen it in the gallery page. According to him, this group is not officially (not published in literature) known. However, he has in his collection, Bolbochromus catenatus from Luzon. These two species shown here is from Mindanao and is not B. catenatus. According to him, these are quite rare and species of this group feed on underground mushrooms.
Shown here are Bolbelasmus sp. (right) and Bolbochromus sp. (left). Genus was determined by F vas-de-Mello.
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