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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2013 14:47:33 GMT -8
I wanna take a brake from work this year and spend more time collecting beetles in Asia, so I sent 3 months collecting in Cambodia, Yunnan China and Nepal. I've spent 4 weeks collecting in Cambodia and to my surprise I've found 4 Chalcosoma caucasus males, lots of females and larvae. If I didn't catch them myself I probably wouldn't believe it. I've found the beetles in Cambodia are a cross over between Java, South Thailand and South Vietnam, very interesting. Has anyone heard Chalcosoma caucasus from Cambodia or knows which ssp dose this Chalcosoma caucasus belongs to? Here's a photo of the 4 males. View AttachmentLooks like chalcosoma engganensis. If you go on google images, there's a Japanese blog with nice close up pictures showing you the characteristics of C. engganensis cheers pete Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2013 14:51:20 GMT -8
By the way, a 35mm chalcosoma engganensis on insectsale goes for $90
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Post by lucanidae25 on Aug 16, 2013 17:52:28 GMT -8
Thanks Pete, I don't think it's Chalcosoma engganensis because it's only from Enggano Is. I think this ssp will be closer to the one from Southern Thailand rather than Enggano Is. I will never sell my 4 specimens because they cost me too much money and what I have to go through in order to find them, just not worth my while. By the way, my biggest male is 82mm.
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Post by arumi on Sept 8, 2013 17:05:52 GMT -8
Only 2 ssp of Chalcosoma comes from Asia, Chalcosoma atlas mantetsu and Chalcosoma chiron belangeri. Largest male on the photo, looks like Chalcosoma chiron belangeri. for example Chalcosoma atlas mantetsu from Vietnam Attachments:
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Post by lucanidae25 on Sept 8, 2013 19:22:23 GMT -8
Not atlas, maybe Chalcosoma chiron belangeri. Thanks I have a really big Chalcosoma atlas mantetsu from Vietnam.
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Post by arumi on Sept 10, 2013 15:29:54 GMT -8
How much big?
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