<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues:<div><br></div><div>Attached you will find a photo of two beetles consuming a camellia flower (Yunnan Province, 10/2007). They look like the big, flower-eating scarabaeids one sees on Myrtaceae flowers in Australia. Does anyone want to attach a genus name to these insects? Dr Ren's request for an identification to species seems unlikely, at this point</div>
<div><br></div><div>Peter Bernhardt <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">任宗昕</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:renzongxin@mail.kib.ac.cn">renzongxin@mail.kib.ac.cn</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:46 PM<br>Subject: What species is this beetle?<br>To: Peter Bernhardt <<a href="mailto:bernhap2@slu.edu">bernhap2@slu.edu</a>><br>Cc: Retha Meier <<a href="mailto:rmeier3@gmail.com">rmeier3@gmail.com</a>><br>
<br><br><br>Dear Prof. Bernhardt,<div><br></div><div>Please have a look of this photo. Two beetles were visiting a Camellia flowers. I took this photos at South Yunnan, Oct. 2007.</div><div><br></div><div>Please feel free to send this photo to some entomologists.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Zong-Xin<br><br><span><br>--<br><pre style="line-height:15px"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><pre><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman">*********************************<br>
Zong-Xin Ren, PhD</font></span></pre><pre><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US">Post Doc. Department of Biology, Saint Louis University, USA<br>Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences,<br>
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