Hi, On the side, I am making a study of Criocerine leaf beetles that feed on orchids. Aside from the better known Australian Dendrobium beetle - Stethopachys; the SE Asian "orchid Lema", Lema pectoralis; and the Lema species that I am studying here in South Africa (Lema cf. jolofa); it appears that there is a species that feeds on Vanilla, and this has been mentioned in the book: BOURIQUET, G. (1954). Le vanillier et la vanille dans le monde; origine, caryologie, morphologie et histologie, syste matique, e cologie, microflore des sols de vanilleraies, multiplication, cultures, maladies et ennemis, technologie, chimie, alte rations, fraudes, vanillisme, conditionnement, commerce. Encyclope die biologique, 46. Paris, Editions P. Lechevalier. I have already nagged some of the list members about this privately, so far unfortunately without any success. If anyone has the book, or access to it, I would deeply appreciate a scan of the page(s) concerning Bradylema grandis (from page 489). Thanks, greig russell "Valhalla", Osborne Lane, 7975 KOMMETJIE, Western Cape. REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA http://www.geocities.com/pennypoint9/
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