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Farmland, rice, longan, bamboo, deciduous tree's, river. 300 MASL
Spotted on Oct 8, 2014
Submitted on Oct 10, 2014
4 Comments
Hi Michael
Thank you very much for the extra info.
The concerning issue is that the link you were able to open was for an official Government site, Ive also found some checklists from a similar official site here where some of the species listed can be found only in these lists! Not a great start when trying to make ID's.
Thank you again for your time
Rob
I can't open the link on malaeng.com, but the other link definitely shows a species of Platycorynus, misidentified as Chrysochus pulcher. I don't know where the authors of that site got their ID from, but they may have used some website or field guide for North America, assuming that the species would be the same as the Thailand.
There is a published identification key for this subfamily from Thailand:
http://catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/handle...
However, many of the key characters are difficult or impossible to check on a photo, without collecting a specimen first...
Hi Michael,
Thank you for the correction, the ID had come from 2 local sites
Forest Biodiversity Division
http://biodiversity.forest.go.th/index.p...
Siam Insect Zoo
http://www.malaeng.com/blog/?p=1847
Your thoughts please.
This is a species of Platycorynus, probably P. peregrinus. Chrysochus pulcher ("blue milkweed beetle") is a species restricted to North America. They are both in the same subfamily, Eumolpinae.