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Juglans, 02.04.2006 12:08

No, this is not a joke: there are two genera among grylloblattin fossils-Dalduba Storozhenko, 1996 and Vrezaldiba Storozhenko, 1996. There is also the family Daldubidae. This same author (a big prankster, however!) Together with Novokshonov, he described a new species and genus Aibolitus medicines (also a fossil).

Can anyone remember any other interesting and funny names?
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03.04.2006 6:59, Juglans

Curious names of riders (author-Belokobylsky)
Mama mariae

Several species of the genus Tanycarpa are named by him in honor of Slavic pagan gods:
T. perun
T. chors
T. svarog
T. stribog
T. volch
T. simargla
T. dazhbog

03.04.2006 11:27, Bad Den

There are a lot of fun insect names here:
http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/rus/syst6.htm

04.04.2006 7:15, Aleksandr Ermakov

One liniphiid (spider) Kikimora palustris Eskov, 1988 is worth a lot!!! smile.gif
If you don't believe me, here is the link http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/a...mora/index.html
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04.04.2006 7:18, Aleksandr Ermakov

And in my student days, our men- "not entomologists" for some reason amused staphylinid Manda mandibularis (Gyllenhal, 1827)

06.04.2006 15:36, Juglans

There is a fly Mukha tzokotukha (it seems so)

06.04.2006 17:31, Dracus

Found today at Korshunov's: Driopa litoreus vysokogornyensis Watanabe, 1998 smile.gif

06.04.2006 18:08, Pavel Morozov

And how do you like the usual Lacanobia pisi pea scoop?

06.04.2006 22:01, RippeR

I've always been amused by barbels like Clytus tropicus, Pogonocherus( pogonocherus), all sorts of species like brevipennis. The truth is no longer there, but what I see here is simply, to put it mildly, "kovbasit"

06.04.2006 22:11, Pavel Morozov

There is one such Chinese hawk moth, Pseudodolbina fo fo. And there is also a hawk moth genus named Dolbina (dolbina). What do you think of the death's head Acherontia atropos?
And brevipennis-it turns out "short-term". There is also someone named rubripennis-red MEMBER lol.gif

06.04.2006 22:16, Pavel Morozov

Yes, by the way, the word larva or caterpillar in Latin will be larva. the transcription is not otherwise than "larva".

07.04.2006 4:42, Juglans

Larva originally means "mask". Hence the Russian "larva-larva".

Rubtsov named a new genus of midges Gnus

07.04.2006 9:46, Bad Den

pennae is also a "fin" by the way smile.gif
Acherontia-read as "acherontia"; ti is read as " chi "in words such as solstitialis - "solstitialis".

Our people are drawn to the staphylinids Lomechusoides strumosa, Paeders littoralis and Bledius sp.smile.gif

This post was edited by Bad Den-07.04.2006 09: 52

07.04.2006 14:05, Juglans

Kozlov named the new hymenopteran genus Renixa (=nonsense). But it turned out that this name is already carried by the genus of tapeworms. Renamed it Proctorenixa. Now let's translate it into Russian: proctus is almost the same as the anus... smile.gif

07.04.2006 14:23, RippeR

And the corn dung is Pentodon idiota.. or Aphodius depressus..

07.04.2006 16:20, Juglans

Bug Uhlerites debilis (if you consider that Uhler described this particular species)

07.04.2006 19:24, mlog

There are a lot of animals named after Tolkien and his characters: Leucothoe tolkieni (true, this is not an insect, but also from Arthropoda), Pericompsus bilbo, Macropsis sauroni etc (selection here: http://wirade.ru/cgi-bin/wirade/YaBB.pl?bo...8605;start=0#0).

And sometimes worse: Anophthalmus hitleri mad.gif

07.04.2006 23:55, Bad Den

There are a lot of animals named after Tolkien and his characters: Leucothoe tolkieni (true, this is not an insect, but also from Arthropoda), Pericompsus bilbo, Macropsis sauroni etc (selection here: http://wirade.ru/cgi-bin/wirade/YaBB.pl?bo...8605;start=0#0).

Under this case, you can add the weevil Bagous gandalf Isajev et Gratshov, 1994.

08.04.2006 11:51, RippeR

Weevil Entimus imperialis

08.04.2006 14:37, RippeR

butterfly Graellsia isabelae (Graells, 1849) whole genus with its own namesmile.gif)
genus Dysdaemonia-did you pray for the night of Dysdaemonia!?

08.04.2006 19:16, guest: a

Scoops Mamestra and Papestra
Cruciferous Murbeckiella huetti

08.04.2006 19:42, Pavel Morozov

Hawk moth Smerinthus planus - " take a drag?"
another hawk moth Macroglossum neotroglodytus
Funny and short species names: scoop Dicycla oo.

10.04.2006 21:12, Dracus

15.04.2006 13:19, Juglans

Dracus
If the author is in parentheses, then not himself

15.04.2006 15:55, Dracus

Oh, yes, I didn't notice smile.gif

15.04.2006 18:22, Pavel Morozov

This Korshunov new genera and tribes in their own way at the time described. After all, they were Parnassius, and they still are. In general, as Murzin once wrote: "they say that butterflies know which species they belong to, and which genus - they don't care."

Another name Catocala dula-dula-in Ukrainian cones
-cocoonworms Lebeda and Paralebeda.

15.04.2006 21:42, RippeR

Dracus
If the author is in parentheses, then not himself



If in parentheses, then the view is not itself. And the genus is unknown, most likely described a new genus and species of this genus, and then they were renamed..

15.04.2006 23:39, Shofffer

If in parentheses, then the view is not itself. And the genus is unknown, most likely described a new genus and species of this genus, and then they were renamed..

No, no. If in parentheses, then Graells described it, only not in the genus Graellsia, but in some other one.

From myself I will add: water lover Hydraena dinosaurophila Jaech.

16.04.2006 4:51, Juglans

Shoffer
this is my typo smile.gif

16.04.2006 11:01, Shofffer

Shoffer
is my typo smile.gif

Yes, yes, that's what I understood. Although, actually, I didn't answer you, but Ripper, who didn't seem to understand this.

16.04.2006 11:59, RippeR

Heh, I guess I don't understand.. smile.gif And keep in mind that the genus can still be described by him..

18.04.2006 12:17, Dmitry Vlasov

Nerds have no less fun:
Mushrooms: pale toadstool-Amanita phalloides and another mushroom (in russkm not pomno) - Phallus impudicus.

05.05.2006 22:25, Linnaeus tuschinorum

In Russian, the last mushroom is called more modestly, but quite expressively - "veselka".

05.05.2006 22:28, Linnaeus tuschinorum

In addition, there is a whole order of fungi-gasteromycetes-Phallales.

10.05.2006 1:07, nimu

Cicindela hybrida L.-rampaging horse. You can frighten children, "if you don't eat porridge, the horse will come and rampage" smile.gif

11.05.2006 11:51, Dmitry Vlasov

To nimu
Actually, this horse is usually translated as an interbreed (i.e. hybrid), and Linnaeus, describing this species, considered it a hybrid of field and forest steeds...

13.05.2006 6:06, nimu

### To nimu
In fact, this steed is usually translated as mezhnyak (i.e. hybrid), and Linnaeus, describing this species, considered it a hybrid of field and forest steeds...
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Translated by Gornostaev G. N. Insects. Encyclopedia of Nature in Russia. ABF 1998.

13.05.2006 8:27, Dmitry Vlasov

Well, I would not advise you to refer to this book as the last resort for Russian names of insects, because the respected G. N. in it frankly overdid it. There is a good and well-reasoned criticism about this book on the www website. zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/rus/ Go to the search engine and look for the page about Russian beetle names.

13.05.2006 10:23, Tigran Oganesov

That's why we need to use Latin.

15.05.2006 10:49, lepidopterolog

Also from Korshunov:
Erebia euryaloides taiga Nikolaev et Korshunov, ssp.n.
Oeneis tundra A. Bang-Haas, 1912
Clossiana chariclea tshuktsha Dubatolov et Korshunov, 1998

This post was edited by lepidopterolog - 05/15/2006 10: 50

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