Please help to ID Scarab (? Melolonthinae) from Borneo

dpotanin Full Member Posts: 85	Please help to ID Scarab (? Melolonthinae) from Borneo Sept 27, 2014 0:50:42 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by dpotanin on Sept 27, 2014 0:50:42 GMT -8 Hi all! Please help to ID this Scarabaeidae (probably Melolonthinae) from Borneo Island (Sabah, Malaysia) Size is 9-10 mm Thank you in advance!

bichos Darwin Posts: 1,085	Please help to ID Scarab (? Melolonthinae) from Borneo Sept 27, 2014 1:36:55 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by bichos on Sept 27, 2014 1:36:55 GMT -8 Tough one...only thing I can say for sure is no, not a Melolonthinae. This specimen is much too robust. It will be some kind of Dynastinae...
	Last Edit: Sept 27, 2014 1:42:23 GMT -8 by bichos It seems therefore that a taste for collecting beetles is some indication of future success in life!--Charles Darwin

bichos Darwin Posts: 1,085	Please help to ID Scarab (? Melolonthinae) from Borneo Sept 27, 2014 1:51:32 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by bichos on Sept 27, 2014 1:51:32 GMT -8 Okay, could be a female Peltonotus or similar...off to work so my search will have stop for now soz
	It seems therefore that a taste for collecting beetles is some indication of future success in life!--Charles Darwin