Forum Entomologi Italiani

date: 25.06.2009
place: Romania, Bacau county, Moldavia

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Provo a naso....Cillenus lateralis (Samouelle, 1819)

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«Discendiamo da scimmie evolute, non da angeli caduti» Robert Ardrey

Mi pare piuttosto un Acupalpus, però potrebbe anche essere, se il pronoto è sinuato come sembra, un Anthracus

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Augusto (aug)
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future (Niels Bohr, fisico)

hi

Cillenus lateralis is a little difficult , since it is only known for atlantic european coasts...

i suppose Acupalpus (s. str.) meridianus (Linnaeus, 1761)... moreover, the only european Anthracus with blackish forebody i know is Anthracus insignis (Reitter, 1884), a species with restricted range, nw greece and coastal former yugoslavia, quite unlikely to occur in romania

could i have a better and enlarged picture of head, pronotum and base of elytra?

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maurizio

I went wrong

Thanks Maurizio

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«Discendiamo da scimmie evolute, non da angeli caduti» Robert Ardrey

I don't know if this image can help, and I don't have the specimen

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the quality of the image is not very very high yet it's enough

because meridianus is unique among our Acupalpus in having punctate, instead of smooth, striae... and this can be seen

Acupalpus (s. str.) meridianus (Linnaeus, 1761)

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maurizio

Thanks again

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