• public domain scientific papers or those whose copyrights have lapsed. As a start, am adding three Philippine Journal of Science papers by Schultze in PDF including part one of his landmark work on the tribe Pachyrrhynchini
• ebooks on beetles in my collection
• possible wallpapers and other stuff

I’m also testing this out if donations will really work. It’s success will hinge on how many times I will be updating it.

Could this have been a developing gynandromorph judging from the way this deformed part is shaped that seem to echo the structure in males?

While I was in Banaue a few years ago, I was able to take photos of Pachyrrhynchus congestus just at the roadside near the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Banaue Rice Terraces. It was just crawling on the leaves of this tree and when disturbed, it dropped to the ground, feigning death. This particular tree, which was abundant in the area harbored many specimens but generally of this species only.

Thanks to Barry Valentine, I got hold of several papers on the genus Xenocerus, family Anthribidae. One of these is a catalog from Joachim Rheinheimer entitled Illustrierter Katalog und Bibliographie der Anthribidae der Welt (Insecta: Coleoptera) published by the journal Mitteilungen des Entomologischen Vereins Stuttgart. The paper lists 29 species, 7 subspecies and 2 aberrant forms that occur in the country.

Check out the link to see the list.

Philippine Carabid species are not always all black or drab colored beetles but there are also spectacular examples as shown above. Just marvel at these metallic colors that rivals some species of Buprestidae. These are typically small species, less than two centimeters in length. Unfortunately, I have no idea what group or species, even just to the genus level, these belong to as I’m not really familiar with this family, much less have a contact who is studying these.

Check out the rest of the specimens in my collection at this page.

This species is typically 20mm in length and like other species of Tribe Callichromatini, day flying. Latest works by authors like Hudepohl and Hayashi have placed this speces as Anubis bifasciatus NEWMAN 1842, but Vives, Bentanachs and Juhel in their latest work, Revision du genre Anubis Thomson 1864, revised this to to reflect the original description which was preceded by Chevrolat.

It has been recorded in Luzon (this specimen was collected in Cavite) and Mindanao. Curiosly, none have been collected in the Visayan Islands. There hasn’t been any record either of the genus in Palawan and Borneo considering that several species occur in mainland Southeast Asia including Peninsular Malaysia. Maybe a species is/are awaiting discovery?

The work features all the known members (23 species and two subspecies) of the genus from both the Oriental and Ethiopian regions and includes 53 beautiful photos as well as some genitalia illustrations. The Philippines is represented by a lone species, Anubis manillarum CHEVROLAT 1838. This species have been listed by several authors like Hayashi and Hudepohl as A. bifasciatus NEWMAN 1842.

What species can this be?

Its coloration is yellowish compared to E. mindanaonis. The first four segments of its antenna are not solid black but with brown coloration and its pronotum, especially the lateral parts is more acute compared to the softer, more rounded form of the latter. Can this be another, undescribed species that might be the third Eustathes to occur in the country?