Lucky mislabeling

[Patherophis]

I bought some beetle larvae earlier this year, yesterday two imagos emerged, but to my surprise, they are different species than I ordered an that was labelled on the box. I am not upset, as it is "better" species, and I was actually considering buying it before i chose the other one. Do You have yourselvelves some funny or fortunate mislabeling stories ?

Mecynorhina torquata immaculicollis (Kraatz, 1890)

• Patherophis
• Oct 28, 2018

little one

 

[8LeggedLair]

Yea your lucky man
Hopefully the next T I order gets a different label and wind up getting a P.Mettalica instead of a Avic.Metallica
But I’d be just as devastated if it were the other way around, received an Avic.Metallica instead of P.Metallica...

 

[dragonfire1577]

What species did you order? I know that one is M torquata immaculicollis.

 

[SonsofArachne]

Every time I see threads on beetles I get annoyed all over again at our stupid overbearing laws in the US. All we can get are native species and while there are a few nice ones they are nothing like the tropical species.

 

[beetleman]

Every time I see threads on beetles I get annoyed all over again at our stupid overbearing laws in the US. All we can get are native species and while there are a few nice ones they are nothing like the tropical species.

i agree 100%

 

[Patherophis]

What species did you order? I know that one is M torquata immaculicollis.

Chelorrhina polyphemus confluens

 

[dragonfire1577]

Chelorrhina polyphemus confluens

Cool, I do agree what you ended up with is a prettier beetle.