Identification of Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

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01.09.2018 9:11, Kharkovbut

Only recently you were praised for criticizing the "definitions", and now you yourself give such a strange conclusion on a completely killed butterfly. Idas and argyrognomon often fly together in the forest steppe and are often distinguishable only by their genitals (or legs, but they are not always preserved). Let them catch and watch these subtle details or give them to specialists.

Dear Nemov,

Duc, ely-paly, and what did I write? I do not give a 100% guaranteed definition: rather idas. This is the last conclusion I dared to make, because 1) you can still see something in the pictures, 2) I have years of personal experience and a couple of dozen cooked specimens specifically at this point, so I know the phenotypes there quite well. From a" foreign " region, I would simply not determine.

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04.09.2018 11:24, Andrey Bezborodkin

Dear experts, I'm sorry that it's not in the topic, and maybe someone will find the question stupid. Please explain more simply what a taxon means. For example, are Colias aurorina transcaspica and Colias aurorina taurica different taxa, or are only different species taxa?

Well, to put it more simply, the subspecies of the aurorina jaundice that you have listed are, in fact, groups of subordinate taxa consisting of Latin names of different ranks (genus, species, subspecies) and forming a single whole (subspecies of such and such a species C. aurorina). I.e., Colias is a generic taxon, aurorina is a specific taxon. taxon (it is the main taxon, but it is always written in conjunction with the generic taxon to indicate the species). transcaspica is a subspecies taxon. I don't even know how to make it even simpler

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