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20.02.2010 22:05, Dr. Niko

Heh... There is such a spider, it is called cattle. Source: Scotina Menge, 1873 (Liocranidae) smile.gif
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20.02.2010 22:24, Dr. Niko

I also found an arachno-anagram: Dolomedes (Pisauridae) < = > Demelodos (Trechaleidae).
Does anyone else know?

This post was edited by Dr. Niko - 02/20/2010 22: 25
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21.02.2010 19:12, Arikain

Spider Talavera minuta

22.02.2010 12:58, Pirx

New Zealand babbler Anu una Thompson, 2008, if flying, but beautiful. By the way, the name is extremely short.
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26.02.2010 17:07, Arikain

I've looked at linifid spiders, and there are plenty of funny names among themlol.gif:
Dactylopisthes video (Chamberlin et Ivie, 1947)
Dactylopisthoides hyperboreus Eskov, 1990
Gonatium paradoxum (L.Koch, 1869)
Ceratinella maior Kulczyсski, 1894
Tunagyna debilis (Banks, 1892)
Incestophantes bonus Tanasevitch, 1996
Sisicus apertus (Holm, 1939)
Thaleria sukatchevae Eskov et Marusik, 1992
Hilaira minuta Eskov, 1979
Hilaira herniosa (Thorell, 1875)
Oedothorax retusus (Westring, 1851)
Lasiargus zhui Eskov et Marusik, 1994
Thyreosthenius parasiticus (Westring, 1851)
Trachelocamptus desertus Tanasevitch, 1993
Lepthyphantes vaginatus Tanasevitch, 1983
Sciastes dubius (Hackman, 1954) .
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26.02.2010 17:42, Dr. Niko

I've looked at linifid spiders, and there are plenty of funny names among themlol.gif:

It's not funny confused.gif eek.gif
And Kirill Yurich is doing great!

This post was edited by Dr. Niko - 02/26/2010 17: 43

16.03.2010 4:46, Ekos

I'm currently reading a recent book on cossides, limacodids, and Vietnam bombicides, and I almost fell out of my chair when I saw the name limacodids:
The genus Barabashka was established for three species Solovyev & Witt, 2009 smile.gif smile.gif smile.gif

This post was edited by Ekos - 16.03.2010 05: 12
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16.03.2010 22:55, Dr. Niko

Modest, but tasteful: smile.gif
Synaphosus kakamega Ovtsharenko, Levy & Platnick, 1994 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae).

17.03.2010 7:07, Mantispid

Is the name related to the bird genus Kakamega Mann, Burton & Lennerstedt, 1978 (Timaliidae)?

17.03.2010 18:26, Kharkovbut

Is the name related to the bird genus Kakamega Mann, Burton & Lennerstedt, 1978 (Timaliidae)?
This is a toponym (and not what some thought...wink.gif). It's in Kenya, if I'm not mistaken.
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17.03.2010 19:03, Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg

Not Mesoamerica? Anisopygia chichicastenanga and A. zacualtipana are described from there.

31.03.2010 4:54, Ekos

This is a toponym (and not what some thought...wink.gif). It's in Kenya, if I'm not mistaken.


Yes, this is a forest area in Kenya.

15.05.2010 18:18, Shtil

Recently caught the eye of the genus of bedbugs Velosipeda! What pranksters!
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20.05.2010 18:10, Dr. Niko

Damn how much I should have smoked...
http://www.curioustaxonomy.net/index.html
http://cache.ucr.edu/~heraty/menke.html
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20.05.2010 18:40, scarit

Funny websites! By the way, there are quite a few examples of anagram names:

"Conilera, Lironeca, Nerocila, Olencira and Rocinela Leach, 1818 (isopods) All anagrams of Caroline, W.E. Leach's wife. (Lironeca was later rejected in favor of Livoneca Leach 1818.) Others later added Renocila Miers, 1880, Creniola Bruce, 1987, Norileca Bruce, 1990. Anilocra and Cirolana Leach 1818, and later Alcirona Hansen, 1890, Lanocira Hansen, 1890, and Orcilana Nierstrasz, 1931 are anagrams of Carolina, Leach's mistress. (Orcilana is a junior synonym of Argathona Stebbing, 1905.)
Cydonia and Docynia (quinces)
Dacelo Leach, 1815 (kingfisher) and Lacedo (pulchella) (kingfisher) Both named after Alcedo Linnaeus 1758 (another kingfisher)
Daption Stephens, 1826 (Pintado petrel)
Dasytes Paykull, 1798 and Sydates Casey, 1895 (both dasytid beetles). Also Adasytes Casey, 1895 and Asydates Casey, 1895.
Denmoza (in Argentina, genus of Cactaceae) anagram of Mendoza.
Dorsilopha Sturtevant, 1942, Lordiphosa Basden, 1961, Phloridosa Sturtevant, 1942, Psilodorha Okada, 1968, and Siphlodora Patterson & Mainland, 1944 (flies) All subgenera of, and anagrams of, Drosophila.
Filago Linnaeus 1753, followed by Gifola, Ifloga, and Logfia Cassini, 1819, Oglifa Cassini, 1822, and finally Lifago Schweinfurth & Muschler, 1911 (all cudweeds)"
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20.05.2010 21:11, Kharkovbut

The worst thing I've come across is the names (close ones!) genera of dragonflies: Agriocnemis and Argiocnemis. At first I thought-ochapatka, but it was not there...
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13.07.2010 21:13, Nosferatumyia

There is a fly Mukha tzokotukha (it seems so)

Yes. Andrey Ozerov described it. Herald of Zoology was rejected because of this, M. D. Zerova recommended not to engage in clowning and replace the name with something more classic, but he just gave it to another magazine...

13.07.2010 21:18, Nosferatumyia

Don't you like my nickname? Nosferatymyia no (Diptera, Pyrgotidae). Well, and Angelopteromyia alf (Diptera, Platystomatidae) - in honor of Alf...

13.07.2010 22:52, Prokhozhyj

Yes. Andrey Ozerov described it. Herald of Zoology was rejected because of this, M. D. Zerova recommended not to engage in clowning and replace the name with something more classic, but he just gave it to another magazine...

Zoological, if I remember correctly. By the way, there are no restrictions on "clowning" in ICZN...

This post was edited by Prokhozhyj - 13.07.2010 22: 53

20.10.2011 21:37, Dr. Niko

I resurrect this topic, sorry, a spider-bird poop, because in English it is called bird dropping spider, and in Latin Celaenia excavata (Araneidae) smile.gif
Well, as a nice addition to the above - the fossil cockroach Skok svaba Vršanský, 2007. Mr. Vršansky is generally a fan of pooriginalitat with names, as you can see by viewing here this his job.
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13.02.2012 18:12, Anax chernobila

Dragonfly Sympetrum eroticum-Veselaya dragonfly

14.02.2012 6:32, RippeR

Just the other day we were laughing with Tolik. Bluebirds:
genus Ignata, Aroma aroma (Hewitson, 1867), Plebejus fridayi (Rebecca Black, 2011), Plebejus podarce, Udara blackburni
thickhead Zera eboneus, Salatis salatis, Salatis canalis
yellowhead Colias christina pseudochristina Ferris, 1989

14.02.2012 10:55, botanque

One of the new Hawaiian water lovers:
Limnoxenus oahuensis Short & Liebherr, 2007
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19.03.2012 18:49, Anax chernobila

Vietnamese spiny stickweed-Neohirasea maerens.

This post was edited by Anax chernobila-03/19/2012 18: 51

23.08.2012 18:46, Dr. Niko

Please note that the vast majority of taxa names found by our esteemed participants can be pronounced out loud, so that, as they say, no one will look back. The fact is that at one time a fossil genus and species of pufferfish Pisdurodon spatulatus Jain and Sahni, 1983 (order Tetraodontiformes) was described... World ichthyology should know its heroes! Hurrah, comrades!
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23.08.2012 22:28, AGG

Pisdurodon is strong!
Fossils in general often get: poposaurus, yaikosaurus (the old name of the Ural River is Yaik), wonhuenia (scientist von Hyune), mandozoi, although these are not insects.

18.09.2012 14:31, Bianor

Interestingly, no one named, say, dung beetles or dead-eaters after political figures. Onthophagus obamae for example smile.gif
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19.09.2012 9:41, Bad Den

Interestingly, no one named, say, dung beetles or dead-eaters after political figures. Onthophagus obamae for example smile.gif

http://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/rus/politics.htm

Well, about Anophthalmus hitleri, I'm already silent smile.gif

In honor of Obama, I just found a mushroom - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caloplaca_obamae

This post was edited by Bad Den - 19.09.2012 09: 49

19.09.2012 16:23, Pirx

  http://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/rus/politics.htm

Well, about Anophthalmus hitleri, I'm already silent smile.gif

In honor of Obama, I just found a mushroom - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caloplaca_obamae


By the way, why obamae and not obamai? confused.gif Or named after your spouse?

19.09.2012 20:47, Bad Den

By the way, why obamae and not obamai? confused.gif Or named after your spouse?

Neuchi smile.gif
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19.03.2013 14:21, AVA

I suggest another curious name in the "piggy bank".

Arnol Menke, in his revision of the New World genus Pison (1988), described a species called Pison eu. Nothing, it would seem, special. But in a personal conversation, he suggested that I read the title not in Latin, but in the "American" manner.
A. Menke was known as an original joker, however.

So, instead of the usual Pison eu, it turned out to be more than funny-Pis on yu.
I don't think anyone needs to translate from English. smile.gif
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03.02.2014 21:58, swerig

Not insects, but names deliver. Apparently the authors are terrible fans of "Predator"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatoroonops
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04.02.2014 1:28, Bad Den

Not insects, but names deliver. Apparently the authors are terrible fans of "Predator"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatoroonops

And you try to come up with 17 names right away smile.gif

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