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18-06-2010, 02:15 PM
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Can some ID these please?
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18-06-2010, 09:01 PM
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#3 (male) & #5 -- Oedemera nobilis - Flower Beetle ?? |
18-06-2010, 09:07 PM
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Yes-3 is a green Nobby Beetle (as we call him  )
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18-06-2010, 09:13 PM
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Number 7 looks like the Click Beetle, Athous haemorrhoidalis, and a good shot too. Only time I got close to photographing one of these it 'pinged' out of the picture!
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18-06-2010, 09:29 PM
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Number 1 is a Plateumaris spp, more than likely P. sericea.
Number 6 is a chrysomelid of some sort, but need to have a good look to give an idea of the genera.
Number 8 looks like Lochmaea caprea
2, 4 and 9 are cantharids.
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18-06-2010, 10:20 PM
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Could #4 be Cantharis pellucida ? |
19-06-2010, 07:16 AM
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5. could be lurida, but its interesting to see nobilis is N.Lincs, it could be heading my way 
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19-06-2010, 07:32 AM
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Originally Posted by oxycera  5. ...... its interesting to see nobilis is N.Lincs, it could be heading my way | Sorry to disappoint you John, but it was taken at Woodwalton Fen, near Peterborough. So it's still got a fair journey before it gets to either you or I.  |
21-06-2010, 10:08 PM
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Evening Ben,
Agree 5 is nobilis, the narrow hind femora making it female. Lurida's sage-green wing-cases almost touch posteriorly, and has a less sculptered pronotum. I have collected and studied a sexual pair of what I have down as lurida (photos if anyone wants), and even they have a very slight hind-femoral swelling presumably denoting male/female appropriately.
Now, Oedemera flavescens... # ' that's the one that I want!!! Ooh, ooh, ohhhh...' Flavescens seems to have more notable swellings to the femora ( but much less than the male of nobilis) in either sex than in the case of lurida, but the duller sage-green differenciating them from the shining-green of nobilis.
Take care, Jason  
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