Taiwan Trip

[BobBarley]

I'll be here in Taiwan for the next several weeks and I've decided to start a thread instead of flooding the gallery with my pictures.

So far nothing too interesting aside from this Tenodera sinensis:



Next week I'll be heading to Kending for 4 days and it's usually teeming with inverts! I'll be sure to post anything I find!

 

[BobBarley]

I'm here in Kending now! Just got here about an hour ago but already found a couple things:

Rather large iridescent beetle, about 1.5"
Tiny hermit crab, most here are much, much larger from what I remember, shell is about 1/4" Both were released after the photos

 

[BobBarley]

Large beetle, looks to be a Cetonid even though the body color and the two front legs remind me of Megasoma sp....anyone got an ID? About 1" body, 1.5" body and horns, 3" DLS

 

[ErinM31]

Wow, those are some neat-looking beetles! I especially love the latest one -- nice shot on the watermelon there!

 

[BobBarley]

Wow, those are some neat-looking beetles! I especially love the latest one -- nice shot on the watermelon there!

Thanks, love see beetles too! I'm heading back to where I'll be staying for most of the trip, Taichung, I'll post if I find anything!

 

[BobBarley]

So I was at Hualien for the past couple of days and I found a couple of nice beetles. Both of them were found in water and both were extremely unresponsive. I thought they were both dead when I collected them. It seems that after a couple hours they sort of just revived themselves, lol. A stag and a rhinoceros beetle.
Oryctes rhinoceros:

Not the best pics as I don't have my macro lens right now... Female

Pseudorhaetus sinicus concolor:

Female

So I'm keeping both of them (for as long as I'm in Taiwan at least) but I have a question about the rhinoceros beetle... A quick Google search will show that that species is a pretty major pest of coconut palm trees. Should I let her go when I leave Taiwan? Any suggestions are appreciated.

Comparison:


General habitat:


Thanks for looking!!

 

[Chris LXXIX]

Damn i envy you BobBarley :-s ah ah

Nice pictures. Taiwan is a jewel. Btw have you spotted badass Centipedes, by chance?

 

[Venom1080]

oh man am i ever jealous... great pics btw

 

[BobBarley]

Damn i envy you BobBarley :-s ah ah

Nice pictures. Taiwan is a jewel. Btw have you spotted badass Centipedes, by chance?

Thanks! I wish I found some centipedes! Now that I've checked off finding a stag and rhinoceros beetle I'm on the lookout for scorpions, centipedes and the like.

oh man am i ever jealous... great pics btw

Thank you!

 

[Nir Avraham]

What about scorpions? Did you find scorpions?

 

[BobBarley]

What about scorpions? Did you find scorpions?

Not yet, I am looking though. Do you know what species are in Taiwan by any chance? All I know is Liocheles australasiae.

 

[Nir Avraham]

Taiwan Whip Scorpion (Typopeltis crucifer)- that all what I found.

 

[BobBarley]

Taiwan Whip Scorpion (Typopeltis crucifer)- that all what I found.

Yeah, looking for those too, but those aren't technically scorpions. They're uropgygi. It'd be nice to find one of those because all you ever see in the US hobby is Mastigoproctus giganteus. Too bad importing into the US is so hard to do.

 

[BobBarley]

Pseudorhaetus sinicus concolor (edit: at least I think they're P. s. concolor...) (((EDIT II: alright these guys are actually Dorcus titanus sika lol)))) 1.2.0 seems these guys are pretty common:



Allomyrina dichotomus tsunobosonus 0.1.0 pretty much the icon of "rhinoceros beetles". I hope to find a male too:



Both pics were taken at a rest stop (where I found them lol) and I didn't bother to keep them as I'm leaving on the 20th.

 

[ErinM31]

Wow, impressive beetles! One of those up top looks like a Pasimachus on steroids! :wideyed:

 

[BobBarley]

Wow, impressive beetles! One of those up top looks like a Pasimachus on steroids! :wideyed:

Yeah it sure does! I have some new pics to put up but I can't do it until tonight or tomorrow morning. Super busy schedule right now. I'm taking a tour of Taiwan and we're pretty much hotel hopping.

 

[Toxoderidae]

Yeah it sure does! I have some new pics to put up but I can't do it until tonight or tomorrow morning. Super busy schedule right now. I'm taking a tour of Taiwan and we're pretty much hotel hopping.

So are you legally allowed to take anything back? I know with many airlines and such they are okay as long as you notify them, but I know the Taiwanese and Malaysian (and other Asian) governments are super high strung on bringing stuff back, which is why it's so special when an asian species of invert (for the most part) comes to the US.

 

[BobBarley]

So are you legally allowed to take anything back? I know with many airlines and such they are okay as long as you notify them, but I know the Taiwanese and Malaysian (and other Asian) governments are super high strung on bringing stuff back, which is why it's so special when an asian species of invert (for the most part) comes to the US.

Nope not allowed at all unless I get like a bazillion permits that'd take forever to go through. It's really a shame.

Here's an at least partly diurnal species of millipede found pretty much all throughout Taiwan:


I find them all over the place both outside and inside during the day. 2-3"

 

[edesign]

Still no centipedes? When do we get to call you a slacker? Great thread!

 

[BobBarley]

Still no centipedes? When do we get to call you a slacker? Great thread!

Man I saw at least 8 at a college I went to! They were all too quick to take a pic of and I couldn't catch them quick enough... Any tips on collecting them?