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05-05-2008, 01:04 PM
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Saw this beetle next to the lake in epping forest. It approx 1-1.5cm long  |
05-05-2008, 01:20 PM
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Could be a Thanatophilus sp.? |
05-05-2008, 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Tiggrx  Could be a Thanatophilus sp.? | No, the pronotum is wrong - Phosphuga has semi-circular forebody without dimples; also has projecting jaws. It's a Thanatophilus, T. sinuatus, I think. Мертвоеды (Silphidae) |
05-05-2008, 02:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul mabbott No, the pronotum is wrong - Phosphuga has semi-circular forebody without dimples; also has projecting jaws. It's a Thanatophilus, T. sinuatus, I think. Мертвоеды (Silphidae) |
wasn't that what I said   |
05-05-2008, 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Tiggrx wasn't that what I said |  It's the sun - it's got me .... sorry! |
05-05-2008, 05:37 PM
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Paul, did you maybe get confused with this "Beetle ID" topic? (I'm still on the Phosphuga-track there ) |
05-05-2008, 06:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Pudding4brains Paul, did you maybe get confused with this "Beetle ID" topic? (I'm still on the Phosphuga-track there ) | No, that had long slipped from my memory ... as most things do nowadays ....
I'm not sure what happened here - I started working through the Silphidae in a systematic manner and, at some stage, would have said to myself, "So not Phosphuga". Clearly that stuck in my brain and when I came to reply put down, '... not Phosphuga ...'. Anyway, the names are easy to confuse, they both have a ph in them ......  |
06-05-2008, 08:55 AM
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Thanks  I appear to have seen alot recently of Siphilidae: this Thanatophilus sinuatus, a squashed Necrophorus vespilloides (I only ever gind them squashed  ) and Silpha obscura
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