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Horned Scarabs in the North of France WITHIN THIS ISSUE by Olivier Decobert Horned Scarabs of Northern France SCARABS Jika ia bau busuk, mereka akan datang. Occasional Issue Number 28 Print ISSN 1937-8343 Online ISSN 1937-8351 June, 2008 Horned Scarabs in the North of France WITHIN THIS ISSUE by Olivier Decobert Horned Scarabs of Northern France ............... 1 [email protected] Horned Scarabs Contest 3 The first scarab is the “Rhinoceros Chrysina Photography .... 5 beetle” Oryctes nasicornis (Linné). Once a friend of mine gave me SOLA Award ..................... 8 some specimens he found near the town of Saint-Venant. They were Aphodiine Classicification Overview .......................... 11 in wood saw-dust with larvae. Despite my own research, I never In Past Years XI............... 14 found again this big beetle in the North of France, but I saw it The Garden Claw ............ 20 several times in the South of my country. North specimens are not very big (male 27 mm, female 30 mm) compared to South where BACK ISSUES a friend of mine said once that Available At These Sites: I live in the North of France. he found a 47 mm male attracted Coleopterists Society This is not the best place for by light. Nevertheless, it is not www.coleopsoc.org/de- biodiversity, however, incredible the same subspecies. Oryctes fault.asp?Action=Show_ scarabs can be found here. I nasicornis belongs to Dynastidae Resources&ID=Scarabs present four species which are family. special because of the presence University of Nebraska www-museum.unl.edu/ of a horn for three of them and a research/entomology/ sort of trident for the last one. Scarabs-Newsletter.htm EDITORS Rich Cunningham [email protected] Oryctes nasicornis (Linné) from Saint- Barney Streit Venant, North of barneystreit@hotmail. France. com Bill Warner [email protected] The second species is smaller To finish, the fourth species (size (6-9 mm). This is Bolboceras 10 to 20 mm) is not really horned (Odontaeus) armiger (Scopoli). but has some kind of trident on It is rather rare and the single pronotum. Its name is Typhoeus specimen I have was found near typhoeus (Linné). I found this the village of Haravesnes in July. Its species several times in the biology is not well known, but one Marchiennes forest, which is not supposes that it lives at the expense far from my home. To find this of mushrooms, in spite of its insect, the best way is to look for belonging to Geotrupidae family, a burrow, a little hole in the sandy which are often dung feeders. areas of this forest, and dig to find the beetle. Bolboceras Bibliography: (Odontaeus) armiger (Scopoli) from DECOBERT O. (2006) – Typhoeus typhoeus Haravesnes, North of L. en forêt de Marchiennes – Bulletin de la France. Société Entomologique du Nord de la France 320: 12-13. DECOBERT O. (2007) – Rhinocéros (et In the North of France a third autres coléoptères cornus) du Nord de la horned scarab can be found France - Bulletin de la Société Entomologique which is Copris lunaris (Linné). It du Nord de la France 322 : 17-19. belongs to Scarabaeidae family. It is a dung beetle. Copris lunaris (Linné) 21 mm, no locality. Typhoeus typhoeus from Marchiennes, North of France. Page 2 World’s Horniest Beetle Contest by The Editors After recently thumbing through another tussle.) So, Skippy, Dave, and a copy of Arrow’s Horned Beetles, Francois, send us some scarabaeine and reviewing Olivier Decobert’s photos to balance out the Golofa and excellent treatment of northern Dynastes photos that will come out France’s horned scarabs in this of Team Scarab, or Theodosia photos issue, it is apparent to us that the coming out of France. Scarabaeoidea have by far the greatest development in horned The Rules armature of all the Coleoptera. But, of all the myriad horned • Send us an original, high-quality scarabs, which qualifies as the digital photo file to Barney Streit most...horned? After much ([email protected]) for argument and a brief sparring consideration. match among the editors over this age-old question, we were left • All entries received by July 31 will winded and unable to pin & label be eligible for consideration. for the rest of the day. It was then we decided to put the question • You may enter as many photos as out to the Scarabs readership. you wish, but only one photo per species per person, please. Here is your opportunity to enter your favorite horned • Entrants grant Scarabs a non- scarab(aeoid) to be named as exclusive, royalty-free license solely The World’s Horniest Beetle. to publish their photo’s in one To qualify, the species should or more issues of Scarabs (with possess spectacular horns because attribution to the photographer) of their ornateness and or size pertaining to this contest, as well relative to the size of the beetle’s as use of the photo on the shirt body. The size of the specimen commemorating the winner (not for itself does not matter. a small, profit use only). ornately-horned Onthophagus may be considered more worthy • All entries received before the of distinction than a large contest closing date will be reviewed dynastine. (For example, some by our lovely Scarabs staff members of our favorites are Diloboderus (not the editors), who will choose the abderus, Sulcophanaeus faunus top five photos. or one of the “mirabilis group” Onthophagus or O. (Proagoderus) • Those top five (along with as species, but Scarabs staff cannot many “honorable mentions that we participate...primarily because we can fit into space available) will be are too old and out of shape for published in a future Scarabs issue. Page 3 Prizes Future Contests And now for the good part: The editors are cooking up ideas for future contests. These • The five winners will each receive include funniest collecting an autographed 8 X 10 print of experience, scariest collecting the photo of our curator Cheree experience, dumbest thing done (see also Scarabs Occasional Issue on a collecting trip, rarest scarab #19) seen on this page--definitely captured, and anything else we can suitable for framing! think of. So get those camera’s clicking and The prize in each contest will be make sure your favorite horned an autographed, quality print of scarab is properly represented!! one of our employees. Remember, if there are only five (or fewer) entries, you are guaranteed a signed print of Cheree for your bare wall. This print is destined to become a collector’s item! Page 4 Photography of Pinned Chrysina by the Editors Is it possible to get a decent harsh specular highlights. Even the photograph of a shiny Chrysina the white plastic was not able to using only a single light? Could provide just the right amount of such a setup be simple, and fold soft, diffuse light. flat so that it could be transported in a suitcase and survive a trip to a A little research helped provide museum? When Editors Rich and a starting point. The old Kodak Bill issued the edict that we would publication Close-Up Photography spotlight this genus in several showed that the way to photograph issues of Scarabs, these are the the surface of a mirror (or Chrysina questions we had to answer. gloriosa, which was their subject) is to bounce the light off of aluminum The essential question is “How foil, as seen below. do you photograph the surface of a mirror?” Moreover, we knew if we could figure out how to photograph Chrysina, we could use the same setup to photograph any scarab. Initial testing involved a lighting tent consisting of three pieces of white, translucent plastic was made. The three sheets are held together by office clips. This was placed on a sheet of Styrofoam pinning material with black velvet laying on its surface. By the way, dust specks can easily removed from black velvet by touching the offenders with the sticky side of adhesive tape. A fourth sheet of plastic was placed on top of this contraption, with a small opening on the corner toward the camera through which the specimen could be photographed. The set-up (above) and the result (left). Three small shoe-mount flashes were placed so that they were facing the plastic, illuminating the beetle from three sides, provided Page 5 So, our lighting tent was lined with A small rectangular piece of foil on the two sides of the tent, cardboard, covered with foil, was covering the entire inside face of placed at an angle to the rear of the the sheet. A narrower strip of foil specimen (in the front corner of the was placed along the bottom half tent, nearest the camera) to bounce of the rear sheet. The top half was light into the area of the hind legs kept free of foil in order to let light and pygidium. The anterior section shine in from a single flash placed of the covering sheet of plastic was behind the rear panel. This flash lined with foil as well. was pointed upward at a 45º angle. The flash was set on manual mode. We suggest taking test shots with the highlight warning of the camera turned on. If you see the dreaded “blinkies” on the preview LCD, turn the power of the flash down and take another test shot. We triggered the flash with two Pocket Wizards: one on the camera and one on the flash. These wireless devices are handy but expensive. A cord could be substituted in place of these triggers to save money. Cardboard could be substituted for The basic setup, showing the single flash at the rear of plastic for the two side panels to the box. save even more.
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