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COLLECTING
TRIP TO ARGENTINA January 2003 |
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| The collecting trip took place in Mendoza, Neuquén, and San Juan provinces in Argentina from 2-19 January. Andrew Smith and Federico Ocampo with Argentinean collaborators Sergio Roig-Juñent, Gustavo Flores, and Guillermo Debandi (IADIZA, Mendoza) traveled through the Patagonian steppes, Araucaria and Nothofagus forests. A total of 32 genera of scarabaeoid beetles were taken from 29 collecting sites (many species constitute new country records for Argentina). Various collecting techniques were used: light trapping, beating sheets, flight intercept traps, and baited and unbaited pitfall traps. The material was preserved in ethylacetate and alcohol (for DNA studies). | |
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| Bolborhinum geotrupoides | Chiasognathus jousselini |
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| Patagonian
steppes in Mendoza . |
Federico
Ocampo in the Patagonian steppes, South of Mendoza province |
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| Federico
Ocampo and Andrew Smith (right) at Reserva Provincial Epulauquen, Neuquén. |
Nothofagus forest at Lago Queñi, Parque Nacional Lanin, Neuquén. |
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| The
group collecting at light at Lago Tromen, Parque Nacinal Lanin, Neuquén . . |
From
left to right: Guillermo Debandi, Andrew Smith, Gustavo Flores, Sergio Roig-Juñent, and Federico Ocampo at Parque Nacional Lanin, Neuquén. |
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The
group in the Araucaria forest in Pino Achado, Neuquén |
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