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Post by chrysocarabus on Jan 17, 2015 15:42:14 GMT
Hello few individual forms of Cetonia aurata aurata France.kristof.
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Post by wollastoni on Jan 17, 2015 15:47:00 GMT
Wow splendid, it gives me the will to collect them next summer !
Did you collect them all with banana traps ?
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Post by chrysocarabus on Jan 17, 2015 15:59:58 GMT
I've seen captured in Ardèche around late May in Ardèche Paiolive forms bicolor few noires.La fi is the reddest Bretonne(Brittany) (Morbihan) I regularly use the bananas and wine trapped high in the trees.
I look for blue forms frequent in Corsican ssp pisana. kristof.
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Post by nomad on Jan 17, 2015 16:44:57 GMT
Very nice specimens. That is some variation in colour for one species, do they occur in different habitats. The beetles usually inhabit the canopy only?
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Post by chrysocarabus on Jan 18, 2015 9:17:13 GMT
The two-tone, black, purple and green type are all of the same locality in Ardèche (Paiolive) .The red I regularly found in southern Brittany. If interested I still have the Cetonia aurata stock exchange has bicolor and purple. kristof.
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Post by nomad on Jan 18, 2015 10:34:16 GMT
The two-tone, black, purple and green type are all of the same locality in Ardèche (Paiolive) .The red I regularly found in southern Brittany. If interested I still have the Cetonia aurata stock exchange has bicolor and purple. kristof. Well thanks for the offer Kristof, but although I find them very interesting, I do not collect Coleoptera. I was wondering why there was different colour forms in the same locality. Also if they inhabit the canopy how do you get your traps up there.
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Post by chrysocarabus on Jan 18, 2015 13:25:16 GMT
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