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Post by jonathan on Dec 3, 2012 11:10:50 GMT -8
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Post by bichos on Dec 3, 2012 13:43:30 GMT -8
How could you not? They offer "free shipping" and it comes with a "lack mandibu"
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Post by prillbug4 on Dec 3, 2012 14:12:58 GMT -8
Go to entomoservice. You can get them for much less. Or, he might be willing to go into the field and collect one of that size for you.
Jeff Prill
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Post by jonathan on Dec 4, 2012 6:35:12 GMT -8
No one bought it. Who knows why?   |
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Post by africaone on Dec 4, 2012 7:07:29 GMT -8
as i know it seems Fukinuki site ! It is usual for him to put rare things at very high price probably to convince buyers that it is expansive ! purely commercial behaviour ! may be he will propose it at lower price (in private) after (He done it a few years ago with a very big hayesi). a few years ago he proposed a dendezia renieri A2 around 75 000 €  |
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Post by nusferatus369 on Dec 22, 2012 16:52:43 GMT -8
for that price i will go my self to french guyana and collect Titanus and much more.
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Post by africaone on Dec 23, 2012 4:22:49 GMT -8
only one or 2 trips to catch a such beetles ?
let me have a doubt !
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Post by Borja Gómez on Dec 23, 2012 6:56:25 GMT -8
Hello
Probably with some info and going in the correct season and spot, a good ligth trap could atract few Titanus males. Probably not that big of course! Anyways 162mm it's just very big, but there are bigger females.
Regards
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Post by thanos on Dec 23, 2012 7:25:55 GMT -8
Actually, if you measure them from the tip of the mandibles to the tip of elytra, males are longer than females..Just the female's last abdominal segments usualy are not covered by the elytra, and give + 2 cm length to the beetle..And this with not stretched abdomen (otherwise the length of female with stretched abdomen can be e.g. + 3 cm longer than if she had been measured up to the tip of elytra, for example you can measure a 17 cm female that is actually 14 cm, especially when you measure the specimen when is freshly killed - after drying, as known, some mm are lost).
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Post by africaone on Dec 23, 2012 8:22:54 GMT -8
"Probably not that big of course! "
that's the question of course, the price is relied to the length !
otherwise you can find some other very much cheaper !
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Post by Borja Gómez on Dec 23, 2012 10:31:14 GMT -8
Hello I mean, get one that big would be hard without many many times collecting there. But I wanted to point the fact that probably would be easy to get a 120-140mm male using ligth traps in the rigth place(maybe not, I've never been collecting these ) and I think it will be more satisfactory than a expensive purchased expensive specimens of 162mm, and spending less money on the process. Thanos, you are rigth, I thougth that females in this species would be bigger in average, like in most of prionids (mandibles appart), but I see that there aren't many females recorded to make such an affirmation. Btw there are records of males measuring more than this one, 167,7mm I readed. Maybe a specimen like that or bigger will be 4500... Regards |
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Post by thanos on Dec 23, 2012 11:02:29 GMT -8
Borja, yes, the longest known male is around 168 mm. Earlier recorded 'mythic' specimens of 18+ cm are actually females with very stretched abdomens (a 15 cm female -measured from the tip of mandibles to the tip of elytra- is a very big one).
Thanos
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Post by bas on Jan 7, 2013 9:37:01 GMT -8
I saw this specimen at deyrolle a french company on there website for about 400 to 500 euros but the website is in french
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