Dear Alessandra:
Don't hesitate to request Hycleus or other meloid specimens from the South African National Collection of Insects (SANC), Pretoria, where I am one of the Coleoptera curators. We only have a modest collection of Meloidae, but it's possible that half of it consists of unidentified Hycleus specimens! No Hycleus type material that I can think of right now (at 02:12 at home), but there may perhaps be some types of Péringuey.
Please note that the SANC is a different and separate insect collection from the Ditsong Museum (ex-Transvaal Museum) (TMSA), also in Pretoria. It is odd that one city would have two separate large beetle collections, but that is a fact and an accident of history. (We've always nicely cooperated, for over a century now.)
You are welcome to contact me at [email protected].
Sleep tight,
Riaan.
Dear Riaan, thank you very much for your information!
My supervisor (Prof Marco Bologna) knows very well the SANC!
Do you have only dried specimens in your collection, or, maybe, also some preserved in ethanol?
thanks again for your message,
Alessandra
Hello,
Are you interested by those from Senegal?
Maybe we could do something.
Abdoulaye B. NDIAYE
IFAN, UCAD
Dakar, Senegal
Hi!
Of course I am interested! I already have some species from Senegal, but there are many others that could be useful for my research.
Do you already have some samples in ethanol?
If you want you can email me at [email protected]
Thank you very much,
Alessandra
Dear Riian,
thanks for your interest in our project.
As Alessandra wrote you, I examined some years ago your rich collection as well as that of the late Tramnsvaal Museum (and those of Cape Town, Pietermarizburg, Bloemfontein, Grahamstown). In the future I want study your dried material. Now we are loking for specimens killed and preserved in pure ethanol.
Thanks again, Marco
It is summertime -- beetle collecting time!
Alessandra, Marco:
(i) Hycleus only, or any Mylabrini?
(ii) Mylabrini only, or any Meloidae?
(iii) Should we collect the entire beetle into good EtOH, or would three legs in EtOH plus a pinned voucher specimen (minus three legs) be sufficient?
Greetings,
Riaan
Hi Riaan!
I guess Marco would appreciate any Meloidae you can find, possibly more than one specimen for species! The entire beetle collected and preserved in ethanol 95% would be great (please do not use ether, it damages DNA!).
If you need any support in terms of tubes or ethanol, we can send you something!
Thank you for your help, and for further communications you can also write me at [email protected].
Alessandra
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