Titanus giganteus - What a price!!!! USD4,500

Go to entomoservice. You can get them for much less. Or, he might be willing to go into the field and collect one of that size for you.
Jeff Prill

as i know it seems Fukinuki site ! It is usual for him to put rare things at very high price probably to convince buyers that it is expansive ! purely commercial behaviour ! may be he will propose it at lower price (in private) after (He done it a few years ago with a very big hayesi).
a few years ago he proposed a dendezia renieri A2 around 75 000 €

only one or 2 trips to catch a such beetles ?
let me have a doubt !

Actually, if you measure them from the tip of the mandibles to the tip of elytra, males are longer than females..Just the female's last abdominal segments usualy are not covered by the elytra, and give + 2 cm length to the beetle..And this with not stretched abdomen (otherwise the length of female with stretched abdomen can be e.g. + 3 cm longer than if she had been measured up to the tip of elytra, for example you can measure a 17 cm female that is actually 14 cm, especially when you measure the specimen when is freshly killed - after drying, as known, some mm are lost).

Hello



I mean, get one that big would be hard without many many times collecting there. But I wanted to point the fact that probably would be easy to get a 120-140mm male using ligth traps in the rigth place(maybe not, I've never been collecting these ) and I think it will be more satisfactory than a expensive purchased expensive specimens of 162mm, and spending less money on the process.
Thanos, you are rigth, I thougth that females in this species would be bigger in average, like in most of prionids (mandibles appart), but I see that there aren't many females recorded to make such an affirmation. Btw there are records of males measuring more than this one, 167,7mm I readed. Maybe a specimen like that or bigger will be 4500...

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