[= Acanthophorus confinis Laporte de Castelnau, 1840]
[= Tithoes mandibularis Thomson, 1877]
[= Tithoes intermedius Thomson, 1877]
[= Tithoes falcatus Kolbe, 1898]
[= Tithoes gularis Kolbe, 1898]
[= Tithoes gnatho Kolbe, 1898]
[= Tithoes longicornis Kolbe, 1898]
Subfamilia: PRIONINAE / Tribus: ACANTHOPHORINI
[Photo © David Navrátil, click on the picture for 4K resolution]
Tithoes confinis, a species distributed in Africa and Arabian peninsula (Yemen, Saudi Arabia), has been decribed from Senegal as Acanthophorus confinis by Francis Louis Nompar de Laporte de Castelnau in 1840 [▽].
Body length: 36 - 101 mm Life cycle: several years Adults in: January - October Host plant: polyphagous in broadleaf trees Distribution: Egypt, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Africa
The depicted mounted beetles were collected by a local collector in Sirari village environs (Tarime district, Mara region, Tanzania) in October 2012. The living female beetles were photographed in: (SS) - Kruger National Park (Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces, South Africa) on January 1, 2016; (PK) - 5 km S of Tsumeb (1423 m a.s.l., Oshikoto region, Namibia) on March 27, 2014.Collected by our friends Stanislav Snäll and Pavel Kučera.
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de Laporte de Castelnau F.L.N.:
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Coléoptères.
P. Duménil, Paris 2: 563pp, 1840. [download]
[Photo © Stanislav Snäll]
[Photo © Pavel Kučera]
| Subfamilia | Prioninae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Acanthophorini Thomson, 1864 |
| Genus | Tithoes Thomson, 1864 |
| Species | Tithoes confinis (Laporte de Castelnau, 1840) |