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Carlo Arrigo
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Posted - 08/01/2017 :  09:44:50  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote

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Yapen Island
West Papua
26/12/2014
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A detail of the strange hooks on the front legs.

Bennyboymothman
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Posted - 08/01/2017 :  10:01:17  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit Bennyboymothman's Homepage  Send Bennyboymothman a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
It's Xiphotheata and probably saundersi.
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Capitaine
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Posted - 08/01/2017 :  11:12:52  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote

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This is a specimen of X. saundersi from Bacan island.
It has not this kind of horny excrescence on the prosternum ..?
Claude
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Francesco
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Posted - 08/01/2017 :  12:56:54  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit Francesco's Homepage  Reply with Quote
It is again Xiphotheata moellendorfii (Flach, 1890).

Xiphotheata saundersii Pascoe, 1864 is only widespread in the Moluccas and does not show ochreous pubescence on the pronotum.

The coxal hooks are typical of males of many Pteropliini such as Prosoplus (Escharodes), Niphona, etc.
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