[Pollinator] Fwd: What species is this beetle?

[Peter Bernhardt]

Dear Colleagues:

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

Peter Bernhardt

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From: 任宗昕 <renzongxin at mail.kib.ac.cn>
Date: Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:46 PM
Subject: What species is this beetle?
To: Peter Bernhardt <bernhap2 at slu.edu>
Cc: Retha Meier <rmeier3 at gmail.com>



Dear Prof. Bernhardt,

Please have a look of this photo. Two beetles were visiting a Camellia
flowers. I took this photos at South Yunnan, Oct. 2007.

Please  feel free to send this photo to some entomologists.

Best,

Zong-Xin


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Zong-Xin Ren, PhD

Post Doc. Department of Biology, Saint Louis University, USA
Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese
Academy of Sciences,
132, Lanhei Road, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, P. R. China
Tel: +86－871-5223534
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E-mail: renzongxin at mail.kib.ac.cn

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