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28.08.2008 12:55, fly-km

idiot is private, civil

28.08.2008 13:14, Bukashechnik

At our Institute, the Latin name for tobacco hawkmoth - Manduca sexta-caused wild guffaws among graduate students. It got to the point that one girl of light behavior, who lived near the dorm, was given such an underground nickname.

This post was edited by Bukashechnik - 28.08.2008 13: 16

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28.08.2008 13:29, fly-km

huius.it's just a Latin

translation-it's

28.08.2008 13:44, RippeR

smoterli with Danilevsky value idiota and debilis, it turned out that the value "gltspy, moron, etc., etc."

28.08.2008 16:14, fly-km

check out the Greek dictionary

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10.11.2008 22:21, Alexander Zarodov

I came across the name of the snail - Xeromunda durieui (Pfeiffer, 1848)

Has this happened here before?

10.02.2009 15:46, ceramist

Please tell me why one of the barbel beetles has such a name: Brachyta interrogationis-interrogative? What is he asking, or do you have any questions for him? :-))
And also, what does the name given to the black fir barbel by G. I. Fischer von Waldheim - Monochamus urussovi - Urusov's barbel mean (or in whose honor is it assigned)? Thanks!

10.02.2009 16:33, barko

There is a very good book by A. Maitland Emmet, 1991, The scientific names of the British Lepidoptera. An explanation of the name is provided for each British species.

07.03.2009 15:45, Justas

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07.03.2009 16:43, amara

Not an insect, sorry, but funny:

"British scientists have officially assigned one of the tree species the name No Parking," writes The Daily Telegraph. The full name of the plant sounds Sorbus No Parking. The tree, related to mountain ash, was first identified as an independent species in the 1930s. On the plant studied by scientists, a sign was nailed prohibiting parking near it. The unofficial name No Parking is attached to the tree. Finally, the tree was recognized as a separate species in a large-scale study conducted recently by several British institutions."

07.03.2009 16:55, lepidopterolog

Can't a specific epithet consist of 2 words? (The ICD doesn't seem to allow it)

07.03.2009 17:03, Pirx

Can't a specific epithet consist of 2 words? (The ICD doesn't seem to allow it)

MKZN, like, too. ... . noparking...?

07.03.2009 17:05, lepidopterolog

The ICZN requirements are much tougher

can no-parking? (so, it seems, according to the ICD you can)

07.03.2009 17:18, amara

The ICZN requirements are much tougher can no-parking? (so, it seems, according to the ICD you can)

You are probably right, but even an English-language site gives a split name:
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-ne...91466-23076690/
so, how it really turned out, you need to ask the nerds.

07.03.2009 17:23, AntSkr

maybe not a species, but a subspecies?

07.03.2009 21:46, Fornax13

Transvestitus infernalis Evers, 1961 (Malachiidae)

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10.03.2009 21:27, Yakovlev

Petya Ustyuzhanin wanted to describe (and then described) a new genus and a new species of finger-winged bird with a cunningly curved aedeagus. Good people, knowing the vicissitudes of generic homonymy, advised to call simply Krivohuika, but Ustyuzhanin resisted the temptation.

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11.03.2009 1:06, Pirx

One Ukrainian Dipterologist once described (to quote Him, my translation):
"a new genus of flies from Karatau (Kazakhstan) Angelopteromyia alf Korneyev...
also
a mysterious fly from the island of Madeira, which received the name Nosferatumyia no Korneyev, that is, there is no Nosferatumuha... "

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06.05.2009 21:07, Dr. Niko

I wonder if the Chinese themselves suspect that their names are swear words for someone??? Cool, probably: "Hi, Li-Czhuan. "Hello, Hui!."

For your information, Tolya, the last name is Putin (I think,

well-known) It translates from Spanish as little gay

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It is a good thing that Finnish entomologists do not include their moua in the names of species, otherwise something could be depicted:
huijata - cheat (read exactly UY)
huilu-flute
huima - violent, unrestrained
huippu-top, top
huivi-headscarf, kerchief
pukki-goat
puku-suit, toilet.

So sho like this

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06.05.2009 21:21, Dr. Niko

From Paleoentomology-Rasnitsyn described in 1992 a mecopteroid insect with flea characteristics from the Upper Jurassic of Siberia, Strashila incredibilis

07.05.2009 3:02, Papaver

Well, then-please - and the membrane Renyxa incredibilis Kozlov, 1995 ...

07.05.2009 15:03, lepidopterolog

Incredible nonsense

07.05.2009 16:41, Papaver

The translation is correct...
Yes! Our entomologist brother, thank God, has a touch of humour in him.!!

10.05.2009 2:13, Pirx

Recently in Kiev, at the Institute of Zoology, I saw this poster
picture: author.jpg

and in the text, by the way, here is a description:
picture: Hacuna_matata.jpg

Well done afftar! Zhzhot!

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15.05.2009 11:06, Dr. Niko

It's a good thing that Finnish entomologists don't include their mou in the names of species, otherwise something could be depicted

Ha! There is such a party!

Finns and I have described a new liniphiid spider genus, Uusitaloia Marusik, Koponen & Danilov.
Uusi talo (Finnish) - new house.

25.05.2009 8:03, amara

"The Philadelphia Academy is known in the scientific community for its passion to name new species of living organisms in someone's honor.
For example, they named a subspecies of the trapdoor spider after musician Neil Young,
and representatives of three species of the coleopteran beetle family were named after the surnames of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld."

So (family coleoptera) is written here http://www.ufostation.net/readarticle.php?article_id=458

13.06.2009 1:24, Dr. Niko

Not quite in the subject, just liked it-the English name of the scoop Mormo maura (Linnaeus, 1758) - "old lady" - old lady

Maybe kotbegemot knows why this is so?

17.06.2009 21:07, Phoenix Saratov

I am very amused by the following titles:
Spermophagus Schönherr, 1833 - Clytra
Laicharting seedling, 1781-
Joppa Fabricius leaf beetle, 1804-ichneumon rider (sorry to read differently)
Golofa xiximeca-rhinoceros beetle
Sinella kukane Christiansen, K et Bellinger, P, 1992 - this is the legtail taka

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17.06.2009 21:55, RippeR

and how is Joppa read? 0_о

18.06.2009 13:47, Phoenix Saratov

Joppa?

02.09.2009 22:30, Dr. Niko

Uuuuhhhh... [wiping away tears and crawling out from under the table]: Minettia longipennis Fabricius, 1794 (Diptera: Brachycera: Lauxaniidae)

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02.09.2009 22:39, vasiliy-feoktistov

Uuuuhhhh... [wiping away tears and crawling out from under the table]: Minettia longipennis Fabricius, 1794 (Diptera: Brachycera: Lauxaniidae)

COOL! Latin is a dead language, and it doesn't give a damn. Fabricius apparently joked that way.

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02.09.2009 23:28, Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg

Godzilliognomus frondosus is not an insect, but a remipedia, but still a good name.

22.09.2009 21:57, RippeR

http://www.insectdealer.de/afrikabockkaefe...ida%20Kolbe.jpg
Phantasis stupida - another concrent for the Pentagon ...

22.09.2009 22:24, botanque

And once an elementary Calosoma sycophanta L. I used to get stomach cramps...

09.10.2009 13:54, Juglans

Well, then-please - and the webbing Renyxa incredibilis Kozlov, 1995...

The name Renixa was pre-occupied, and now this membrane is called Proctorenyxa incredibilis

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09.10.2009 14:21, Prokhozhyj

The name Renixa was preoccupied, and now this membrane is called Proctorenyxa incredibilis

And who is Renyxa now?

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09.10.2009 14:41, Papaver

And once an elementary Calosoma sycophanta L. I used to get stomach cramps...

And now what - does not "insert" already?

09.10.2009 17:00, botanque

Well, after

Uuuuhhhh... [wiping away tears and crawling out from under the table]: Minettia longipennis Fabricius, 1794 (Diptera: Brachycera: Lauxaniidae)

it seems childish somehow, cheslovo.

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06.11.2009 16:09, Shofffer

Chrysomphalus dictyospermi (Morg.) (Coccoidea: Diaspididae).

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