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Dear colleagues,

Could you help me with these specimen.

I think it could be P. cuprea cuprina. What is your opinion?


21 mm

Regards,

Stéphane

Hello Stéphane, last year I collected a single specimen not far from the site where this specimen comes from (a female who allowed me to start a breeding ).
I have identified it as P. cuprina but I do not know the characters to distinguish ssp. cuprina from ssp. transfuga. Any idea?

In cetoniimania (2009), P. Tauzin, A propos du taxon Cetonia transfuga Schaufuss, 1882
(Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Cetoniinae, Cetoniini) said:

P. cuprina transfuga = P. cuprina

Regards,

Stéphane

Thanks Stéphane. I miss the paper you mention, as many of the papers published on Cetoniimania.

Give me your mail by P.M.

Stéphane

And you will find some articles of P. Tauzin here: http://www.insecte.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 36l#202736