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Post by timoinsects on May 9, 2011 3:06:59 GMT -8
this picture was found from internet. but by google picture searching same latin name,the other pictures show differently from this guy in this picture. maybe it is a female so looks differently from other pictures?
the name is Labidura herculeana,largets?can reach 8cm?
here's the discribion from this link:
"Labidura herculeana the Saint Helena giant earwig is insect that isolated to Saint Helena, in the south Atlantic Ocean. This insect is order of Dermaptera. Labidura herculeana first described in by the Danish Entomologist Fabricius in 1798. Labidura herculeana (Fabricius, 1798), a real giant with up to 80 mm body length is the world¡¯s largest earwig. Labidura herculeana has shiny black with reddish legs, short elytra without hind wings. These insects are characterized by the cerci, or the pair of forceps-like pincers on their abdomen; male earwigs have curved pincers. These pincers are used to capture prey, defend themselves and fold their wings under the short tegmina. Labidura herculeana live in plain areas, gumwood forests, and seabird colonies in rocky places."
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Post by lucanidae25 on May 9, 2011 3:28:49 GMT -8
This sp is already extincted.
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Post by Khalid Fadil on May 9, 2011 4:35:55 GMT -8
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Post by dertodesking on May 9, 2011 6:04:46 GMT -8
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Post by dertodesking on May 9, 2011 6:14:07 GMT -8
...by the way, I think the specimen in your 'photo is a male and the one in mine is a female.
The males are described as being darker in colour and having stouter pincers than the female.
Simon
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Post by lucanidae25 on May 9, 2011 7:21:55 GMT -8
Rats has got to that Is and most thing would be extinct.
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Post by saturniidave on May 9, 2011 8:35:05 GMT -8
tmoinsects, that photo is from Takeshi Yamada who owns a Museum of wonders which contains many fake taxidermy specimens such as the famous 'Sea Rabbit'. The specimen bears very little resemblance to the other illustrations of this species and I am sure those antennae are from a Longhorn Beetle. I may be wrong but it does look suspicious!
Dave
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Post by entoman on May 9, 2011 10:41:23 GMT -8
I agree, for some reason that specimen doesn't seem quite... shall we say, kosher?
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Post by jeanff on May 9, 2011 11:14:55 GMT -8
Definitely a made-up specimen, with lucanidae mandibles as rear pincers, cerambicydae antennas and borrowed body, up to the head, from something that look like abdomens glued back to back, probably from some roach specie. Well done though...
Jean-Philippe
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Post by saturniidave on May 9, 2011 11:54:42 GMT -8
Also all the photos on the web are of this actual specimen and all credited to Takashi!
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2011 12:07:45 GMT -8
Glad to see someone besides me had a 'feeling' about that specimen in the hand  |
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Post by dertodesking on May 9, 2011 13:18:24 GMT -8
tmoinsects, that photo is from Takeshi Yamada who owns a Museum of wonders which contains many fake taxidermy specimens such as the famous 'Sea Rabbit'. The specimen bears very little resemblance to the other illustrations of this species and I am sure those antennae are from a Longhorn Beetle. I may be wrong but it does look suspicious! Dave Well...just goes to show you can't believe everything you see on the internet  I thought the specimen in the original picture looked very different to the type specimen but put this down to sexual dimorphism in light of the description of the males being darker and much stouter in build. Luckily for me I don't claim to be an earwig expert! The antennae DO look like those of some large cerambycid though... btw, just done a search on Takeshi Yamada and found some of his other work...along with the sea rabbit he's also done a "hairy trout" (apparently adapted to the cold Canadian waters!!!) and a spider/dog combination!!! ;D. Link here for anyone that might want to see some other fake "animals"! www.roguetaxidermy.com/members_detail.php?id=528Simon |
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Post by lucanidae25 on May 9, 2011 14:45:42 GMT -8
I agree that is a fake specimen but this sp is the largest earwig in the world.
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Post by anthony on May 12, 2011 5:29:32 GMT -8
At last a picture of the rare Mongolian death worm.
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