Cariblatta lutea Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Collected from a rest stop near Rio Rico, AZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 Nice, these look a little bigger than the other Arenivaga sp you caught, wonder what species they'll turn out to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta lutea Posted August 21, 2016 Author Share Posted August 21, 2016 Nice, these look a little bigger than the other Arenivaga sp you caught, wonder what species they'll turn out to be. Yep, it's the biggest I collected (though there's a NM specimen I gave to Kyle that was about the same size and had similar color) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta lutea Posted August 31, 2016 Author Share Posted August 31, 2016 Saw a mature male in the container last weekend, but forgot to take pics. Hopefully he'll still be alive when I'm back home so I can get pics of him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta lutea Posted September 5, 2016 Author Share Posted September 5, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Very nice! Looks like A.investigata to me, that's not a definite ID by any means though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta lutea Posted September 5, 2016 Author Share Posted September 5, 2016 Very nice! Looks like A.investigata to me, that's not a definite ID by any means though. IMO a lot of Arenivaga species can not be told apart just by their appearance cause not only are they highly variable but there also seems to be sibling species among them too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 IMO a lot of Arenivaga species can not be told apart just by their appearance cause not only are they highly variable but there also seems to be sibling species among them too Exactly, that's what makes them so hard to identify. Range can be a good way to identify in some cases but in many areas several species coexist, so really genital dissection is the only way to identify most species. This male does look like A.investigata males I've seen but it could easily be something else. Hopefully once your colony is established you will be able to spare some male specimens for genital dissection to ID them properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta lutea Posted September 5, 2016 Author Share Posted September 5, 2016 Exactly, that's what makes them so hard to identify. Range can be a good way to identify in some cases but in many areas several species coexist, so really genital dissection is the only way to identify most species. This male does look like A.investigata males I've seen but it could easily be something else. Hopefully once your colony is established you will be able to spare some male specimens for genital dissection to ID them properly. Yep. That's why I don't even try IDing them to species level Hopefully that'll happen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta lutea Posted October 22, 2016 Author Share Posted October 22, 2016 Found some hatchlings in the enclosure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All About Arthropods Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Congratulations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta lutea Posted October 22, 2016 Author Share Posted October 22, 2016 Congratulations! Thanks again. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pannaking22 Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 Congrats again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta lutea Posted October 26, 2016 Author Share Posted October 26, 2016 Congrats again! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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