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Protaetia chaminadei
Mixed deciduous forest, nearby elephant grass, rice fields. 380 MASL
Hi Lenny, thanks again, both yourself and Bayucca have given myself and I guess countless others great ID's, thank you. (just going through todays pics, another flower beetle on the way).
Lenny, we have discussed this several times and I repeat it again: It is mandatory to add a reference link for a species or in rare cases, as I had to do several times myself (only where there was NO (!!) electronic reference at all), add a comment that you have no electronic reference. Making a suggestion is not the meaning of let other people checking the references. You are the one with the correct ID, so it is also your job to "proof" with a good link and trustable reference, since you have more knowledge about that specific species. Many people are not experienced enough to verify a suggestion and we have a lot of unprooved and unfortunately wrong ID suggestions here. It just took me 1 minutes to find this reference, I never take an ID as granted, not even my own ones, so it should be easily possible to take this time finding a reference. That's part of the game, indeed!
Bayuccca must have researched it after I gave the correct I.D.
Yes it is in my Thai field guide. Bayucca keeps asking me for references.
but I am quite happy just to identify stuff and let the poster do all the reference legwork,after all half the pictures on the internet don.t have a name anyway.Reason being they cant be bothered buying field guides.I have never visited a country without one (or ten).
Bayucca and many others have given me some good advice in the past.
But before I have asked for help I have gone as far as I can to I.D.my own spottings. As you have on this one.
Anyway keep these Beetle photos coming Rob.
Hi Lenny, thanks for the ID suggestion, can't find any images, is the ID from one of your books?
Hi Rob
I've not seen this one. Apparently confined to Northern Thailand.
I might not be high enough.P.acuminata and P.fusca are the common ones here.
Oh ok but I bet it is in that genus or related. And your welcome, Glad to help
Hi Sphingid_Matt, think you for the suggestion, just one concern though, Euphoria sp. according to wiki are native to the Americas, this beetle was spotted in SE Asia. Thanks again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphoria_(b...)
Spotted on Jun 2, 2014
Submitted on Jun 3, 2014
