Beetles elitra from around the world

[Andres Touceda]

Just getting things ready for Somerset fly tying symposium I have been working on some elitras. Here are some examples:

Batocera tigris, from Indonesia
Chalcolepidius sp. , from Latin America
Cylindorthorax balteatus, from Kenya
Deliathis flavis, Guatemala
Freadelpha eremita, Gabon

Andr?st.

[Andres Touceda]

Five more...

Mastododera coccinea, from Madagascar
Mouhotia planipennis, from Thailand
Rosembergia Weiski, from Papua-New Guinea
Semiotus ligneous, from Bolivia
Thenetica lacrymans, from Thailand

[Andres Touceda]

Three more.

Ultiolemur cornutor, Comoros
Ultiolemur pupieri, Guatemala
Ultiolemur thomsoi, Comoros

[alra195]

Andres,

Good looking bugs! You'll need to be careful some entomologist doesn't want to stick a pin in these and add them to a collection. Nice!

[Normand]

[Ken Y]

Cool! I am wondering how you are making them and how you tie them on the hook.

[Andres Touceda]

Hello,
Thank you Joe! hope you are right and some entomologist ask me for them.
Normand... I am also confused.
Ken I am going to introduce this material at Somerset and I hope tyers like it. To tye it is very simple; the tab I use to hold it is tyed behind the hook eye, forming the beetle?s head. Some thread turns, just between torax and abdomen, will fix the elitra to a foam body.
You can see the final result in a post about fishable beetles I wrote a pair of weeks ago (more or less)
AndresT

[bugman]

very impressive !!! pm sent...

[Andres Touceda]

Hello all,

I started this thread time ago, now I post a finished Batocera Tigris.

I hope you like it.

Andres T.

[JeffHamm]

Hi,

Very nice, all of them.

- Jeff