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Ecco una magnifica coppia di Bolbelasmus bocchus vaulogeri Abeille de Perrin, 1898 catturati alla luce.

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Guido Sabatinelli
Museo di storia naturale, Ginevra, Svizzera
http://www.glaphyridae.com
http://www.scarabeidi.it

Bella bestia! Anche se non è nel mio gruppo di primario interesse, provo un po' d'invidia.

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Maurizio Gigli
http://utenti.romascuola.net/bups
http://bup.xoom.it/

....e io ti ringrazio e ti faccio i miei più sinceri complimenti per gli splendidi animali che ci stai facendo vedere
....a proposito, a quando i Crisidi?

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Andrea

Grazie, i crisidi per il momento sono in alcool ed aceto....
Ho ancora qualche curiosità nord africana da mostrare e poi oggi preparo le valigie per il "salto in Turchia" con Marco U e Maurizio B.

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Guido Sabatinelli
Museo di storia naturale, Ginevra, Svizzera
http://www.glaphyridae.com
http://www.scarabeidi.it

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Acmaeodera
Acmaeoderini Orbis, Buprestidae, Scarabaeidae
acmaeodera@seznam.cz
http://www.acmaeodera.cz

Ok!!!

Buon "salto"

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Andrea

My colleagues from the Czech Republic, Germany and Sicily are working on the revision of all Mediterranean Bolbelasmus-species, so we'll see what is this specimen (according to my information, my colleague from Prague has the type material of B. bocchus and B. vaulogerii at home)...
One thing is clear, B. vaulogerii is the valid species, not only supspecies!

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Daniel

Ἦν τὸ φῶς τὸ ἀληθινόν, ὃ φωτίζει πάντα ἄνθρωπον, ἐρχόμενον εἰς τὸν κόσμον. (ΚΑΤΑ ΙΩΑΝΝΗΝ, 1,9)

The type specimen of B. vaulogerii (male) from Tunisia has only one simple horn on head while B. bocchus from Spain and Portugal has two horns adjacent - see e.g. the following link:

http://faluke.blogspot.cz/2012/03/bolbe ... cchus.html

So, it is possible that B. romanorum is the synonym for B. vaulogerii or its subspecies (but let's go wait for a revision).

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Daniel

Ἦν τὸ φῶς τὸ ἀληθινόν, ὃ φωτίζει πάντα ἄνθρωπον, ἐρχόμενον εἰς τὸν κόσμον. (ΚΑΤΑ ΙΩΑΝΝΗΝ, 1,9)

Thanks, interesting subject. Although i dont know much about it I offer the following two observations:
1. Baraud described (1998) quite well the frontal horn in B.vaulogerii (splitted at the apex) and in B.bocchus (splitted from the base).
2. B.romanorum is possible synonymous of B.vaulogerii?? I dont know the paper, but I suppose that the Authors of B.romanorum compared the Sicilian specimens with both related species and in particular with B.vaulogerii from Tunisia. Isn't?
Ciao, Guido

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Guido Sabatinelli
Museo di storia naturale, Ginevra, Svizzera
http://www.glaphyridae.com
http://www.scarabeidi.it

Baraud as Arnone & Massa didn't see the type specimen of B. vaulogerii. My colleague from Prague David Král has the type (male) at home (lent from museum), and it has only 1 simple horn (its morphology is identical with B. romanorum, so, B. romanorum is the synonym for B. vaulogerii or its ssp.!). The description in Baraud (1992) is incorrect. Species with horn splitted from the base refer to European B. bocchus (black-coloured body), but north African species with horn splitted at the apex (rust-coloured body) is a species without name, so my colleagues want to name it as B. krikkeni sp.n. - this species is in the photo in the following link under the name B. bocchus (it is B. krikkeni sp. n. in prep. = B. vaulogerii auctorum):

http://www.biolib.cz/cz/taxonimage/id12 ... nid=243131

However, there is the following question: is B. bocchus from Spain and Portugal inentical with the type material of B. bocchus from Algeria??? B. bocchus was described from Algeria (no more specimens are known from this country) and known also from Morocco, but I have no information about the type from Algeria. So, we wil see after the revision from David Král, Oliver Hillert and Bruno Massa.

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Daniel

Ἦν τὸ φῶς τὸ ἀληθινόν, ὃ φωτίζει πάντα ἄνθρωπον, ἐρχόμενον εἰς τὸν κόσμον. (ΚΑΤΑ ΙΩΑΝΝΗΝ, 1,9)

However, I don't see good the horn of this specimen from Matmata - is it a simple horn or splitted at apex??

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Daniel

Ἦν τὸ φῶς τὸ ἀληθινόν, ὃ φωτίζει πάντα ἄνθρωπον, ἐρχόμενον εἰς τὸν κόσμον. (ΚΑΤΑ ΙΩΑΝΝΗΝ, 1,9)

Hi Daniel, I understand that this couple of specimens might be important. Here below some pictures of the frontal horn clearly apically splitted.

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Guido Sabatinelli
Museo di storia naturale, Ginevra, Svizzera
http://www.glaphyridae.com
http://www.scarabeidi.it

I think the iconography provided in the paper and here in the Forum (viewtopic.php?f=166&t=16226&hilit=romanorum) is suggestive that what I collected in Matmata is B.vaulogerii.

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Guido Sabatinelli
Museo di storia naturale, Ginevra, Svizzera
http://www.glaphyridae.com
http://www.scarabeidi.it

Hi Guido! Please read better what I wrote. Once again: The type specimen of B vaulogerii Abeille De Perrin, 1898 that is now at David's house (borrowed from the museum) is identical with B. romanorum Arnone & Massa, 2010 at first sight. Your specimen from Matmata is quite different: on the basis of your new detailed pictures I can say: your specimen is B. vaulogerii actorum and thus sp. n. - now without name, not B. vaulogerii Abeille De Perrin, 1898! Your specimen from Matmata could be a paratype in the description of B. krikkeni sp. n. in prep. (if You'll send it to David Král or Oliver Hillert).

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Daniel

Ἦν τὸ φῶς τὸ ἀληθινόν, ὃ φωτίζει πάντα ἄνθρωπον, ἐρχόμενον εἰς τὸν κόσμον. (ΚΑΤΑ ΙΩΑΝΝΗΝ, 1,9)

Great! Thanks a lot.

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Guido Sabatinelli
Museo di storia naturale, Ginevra, Svizzera
http://www.glaphyridae.com
http://www.scarabeidi.it