Incorrect funny definitions of insects in the literature and on the web

  Insects Author: I. V. Travina
Publishing House: Rosman-Press
Series: Children's Encyclopedia Rosman
ISBN 978-5-353-05502-0; 2011
This beetle, although it has glow organs on its body, but it is not a relative of firefly beetles and belongs to the family of nutcrackers. In Russian, the genus of these "glowing" beetles has a well-established name-Fire-eating nutcrackers-Pyrophorus.

So what's the catch?
This refers to the American "Cuckoo Nutcracker" Pyrophorus noctilucus (Linnaeus, 1758), a representative of the genus Pyrophorus Illiger, 1809. I don't understand to be honest
Quote from the well-known "Illustrated Encyclopedia of Insects" (V. Ya. Stanek, ed. Artia, Prague 1977):

We "have fun" with each other here, we are engaged, in fact, in sadomasochism. And you have to write to publishers, complain, be indignant that they have ignoramuses working for them! I did this a couple of times , and they answered. We promised to correct the errors in the new edition and not allow this to happen again!

Epanova, Nosova: Set of cards "Insects"

Author: Epanova E. V., Nosova T. E.
Publishing House: Child Prodigy from the Cradle, 2012

under the inscription, the rhinoceros beetle in the photo adorns the Spanish copris (Copris hispanus). It may look like a horn, but it's not a rhinoceros.

and here on the card, the role of the scarab is taken by a tropical crunch from the genus Plusiotis.

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World in Pictures: Insects

Publishing house: Mosaika-Sintez, 2011
Series: Visual and didactic manual
ISBN: 9785867751326

the beetle in the picture, although it has some external similarity in the form of "outgrowths-horns" with a real beetle-Hercules (Dynastes hercules) from South America, but in fact it is a beetle from the genus Xylotrupes, native to Southeast Asia

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Insects. Encyclopedia. series Do you know?
Author: Tom Jackson
Illustrator: Dave Allen
Translator: Vladimir Svechnikov
Languages: Russian
Publisher: Azbuka-Atticus
ISBN 978-5-389-05100-3; 2013

if you look closely, the photo is not a honey bee drone at all, but an insect even from another order - two-winged ones. apparently, this is some kind of fly that imitates the appearance of a bee. This is confirmed by the absence of long antennae characteristic of bees, but by the presence of short antennae, with their characteristic two-winged shape.

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Insects. Encyclopedia. series Do you know?
Author: Tom Jackson
Illustrator: Dave Allen
Translator: Vladimir Svechnikov
Languages: Russian
Publisher: Azbuka-Atticus
ISBN 978-5-389-05100-3; 2013

although the picture shows a beetle from the group of rhinoceros beetles (subsem.Dynastinae). But this is not the common rhinoceros beetle Oryctes nasicornis, from Eurasia, which is described in the text. Our rhino beetle can only dream of such a large horn as Allomyrina dichotomus, which is actually depicted in the photo. And it is found in Southeast Asia, not Eurasia.

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Atlas of Dinosaurs and other Fossil Animals " by E. N. Kurochkina, Moscow: Rosmen, 2003.



Where did butterflies come from in the Carboniferous period, if the oldest fossil remains of lepidoptera are known from deposits of the Early Jurassic period, their age is about 190 million years? Especially developed mace-whiskered butterflies, the appearance of which coincides with the flowering of flowering plants in the Cretaceous period.

Wow, Galatea! ))))

Wow, Galatea! ))))

and pigeons to it in addition

An annoying typo on the highly respected ZIN website: http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/rus/calaenzi.htm
The subgenus is not called Callodostola, but Callidostola Reitter, 1913.
We need to fix it.

This post was edited by vasiliy-feoktistov - 05/16/2013 04: 18

An annoying typo on the highly respected ZIN website: http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/rus/calaenzi.htm
The subgenus is not called Callodostola, but Callidostola Reitter, 1913.
We need to fix it.

This should be written to A. L. Lobanov

The Great Encyclopedia of Nature (16 volumes)
Year: 2002-2004
Genre: Biology
Publisher: Mir Knigi LLC
The first three volumes of the series, with the general title "Animal Life"


Ant lions belong to Reticulatoptera, which are insects with complete transformation-accordingly, their larva differs in appearance from the imago. The photo is just an imago, not a larva.



What are the knight butterflies? probably referring to the family of Sailboats. In German, it is called Ritterfalter, Ritter - knight. What kind of noble butterflies are they? Edelfalter? "Apparently they were referring to the nymphalidae family, but then the peacock-eyes form a separate family. Probably referring to the daytime peacock's eye. It is also not clear what kind of small and large urticaria - when the type urticaria in Russian is assigned as the name of a single taxon. However, there is also a delusional claim that the day peacock's eye is a chess player, which in fact is a DRAUGHTSMAN in Russian.

DYNASTES, but there are unnecessary comments )) In principle, again the translation is bad, but as for the daytime and forest peacock-eyed chess players, I think they meant butterflies like "ox's eye", if the translation is from German, then maybe they have checkers - these are chess players)

Glass apple tree (Aegeria myopaeformis)

  Glass apple tree (Aegeria myopaeformis)

So that's who's flying right now!

Figure Porhydrus obliquesignatus (Aubé, 1838), included in Volume 5 of the Guide to Freshwater Invertebrates of Russia:

Actually a photo of the beetle (from the network):

Pay attention to the pronotum pattern. So I almost missed this species in my collections, mistaking it for the banal Hydroporus striola.

I. Y. Pavlinov-The Development of Life on Earth (I Know the World series) - 2001



a strange dragonfly with the antennae of a mace-whiskered butterfly, more like askalafa

Vetter De: Encyclopedia of Animals
Author: De Wetter Bernard
Publishing House: Labyrinth, 2009
Series: Atlases and encyclopedias for children
Translator: Kim A. I.

The quality of the photo is not very good, but if you look closely, you can make out the captions to the photo


The caption to the picture is a trilobite larva.......

In the photo, a butterfly from the genus Morpho, but not a large iridescent (genus Apatura)


and here the Papilio cresphontes butterfly from North America is called a swallowtail

This post was edited by DYNASTES-02.06.2013 20: 08

Renato Caporali: Secrets of Wildlife

Author: Caporali Renato
Translator: Natalia Lebedeva
Editor: Valentina Bologova
Publisher: Makhaon, 2011
Series: World of Discovery



Despite the bright green color with a metallic sheen, the photo shows not a beetle from the subfamily of bronze beetles Cetoniinae, but a crunch from the tropical genus Plusiotis or related ones.

After all, even in the usual insect identification books, it is written that the distinctive feature of the subfamily of bronze beetles (Cetoniinae) are special cutouts on the sides of the elytra, through which the wings are released during flight, while the elytra remain folded on the back.
The photo also shows the raised elytra of the beetle.

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Cool! The larva of a trilobite - not well, it's voooobshche!!!!!!! )))
Everything else is so-so compared to this

And to draw such a dragonfly, the author, imho, was inspired by the ant lion

The living world. For children over 9 years old
Translator: Dolgacheva O.
Editor: Kustova T. N.
Publishing House: Eksmo, 2012
Series: Illustrated Encyclopedia





In the drawing, burdock sem.A nymphalid that actually makes migrations.




The picture shows Zlatka. Woodworms - a family of butterflies in Russian


Again, Brook's Trogonoptera, which is closely related to ornithopterans, is called an Ornithopter. The genera are still different.


The picture is not a hawk moth Xanthopan morganii at all, but a bindweed hawk moth. The first one has no pink stripes on the abdomen.

Wonders of nature. Encyclopedia
Publishing House: Dragonfly, 2011
Series: Riddles and secrets of the world




The leafy snout (Libythea celtis) looks different (photo below), and in the picture the butterfly of the family nymphalidae is the genus Anaea - in particular, it is Anaea itys.originally from South America.

Wonders of nature. Animal world
Author: Kalashnikov V. I.
Publishing House: White City, 2009
ISBN: 978-5-7793-0302-6



Still, this is a fringed floater, not a water lover. Yes, and water lovers - vegetarians, in contrast to plavuntsov

Graham Baines: Life on Earth. For children over 9 years old



By Graham L. Baines
Translator: Doronina E. A.
Editor: Solomatina E.
Eksmo, 2012



Instead of lice in the picture - a flea.

Wonders of nature. Animal world
Author: Kalashnikov V. I.
Publishing House: White City, 2009
ISBN: 978-5-7793-0302-6



Still, this is a fringed floater, not a water lover. Yes, and water lovers are vegetarians, unlike floaters

Not quite... This is not a fringed plavunets, but a Cybister buffoon (from the plavuntsy family)

Not quite... This is not a fringed plavunets, but a Cybister buffoon (from the plavuntsy family)

Not exactly Dytiscus dimidiatus or D. semisulcatus. Cibisters do not have light strokes at the tops of the elytra, and their shape is not elliptical.

Worthy of the theme. But people already determine by this: Coenonympha glycerion

"Butterflies are fabulous creatures"



Text: E. A. Sheikina
Ranok, Kharkiv 2012

Colorful printing and coated paper hide mistakes. The book "stood out" in two aspects-firstly, some of its sections, for example about the largest butterflies in the world, were stupidly copied from the Russian-language Wikipedia or other Internet sites 1 in 1 with the preservation of spelling and punctuation errors of the original - that is, they didn't even bother to read the text - I wonder if the publication even had an editor? Yes, and the photo from Wikipedia to the book migrated too, not a little.

And now the bloopers:


Not every butterfly with yellow wings is a lemongrass. Pictured is Jaundice (Colias)



A story about one of the smallest butterflies, acetosia, is decorated with a photo of a brown chervonets, which is also found later in the book, but with the correct signature. First, acetosia does not belong to pigeons, but to the family of Baby Moths. Her wings are not painted in blue, but in brown-brown tones - a night view after all. Yes, and with a wingspan of 2 mm, they lied - they copied an error from the Internet - its wingspan is actually about 4 mm.

And here is the correct signature.


On the photo of the Ornithopter Priam, as an illustration to the article about the Oritopter Alexandra. It is noteworthy that earlier in the book there was already a real photo of O. Alexandra and it is easy to understand that the color and shape of the wings of males are still different.



And here, instead of morpho anaxibia, another species of the genus Morpho - Morpho didius or one of the subspecies of Morpho Menelaus is depicted.

Insects Author: I. V. Travina
Publishing House: Rosman-Press
Series: Children's Encyclopedia Rosman
ISBN 978-5-353-05502-0; 2011




This is not a completely correct statement, all butterflies have 6 legs, but representatives of the Nymphalidae family have their front legs reduced (reduced in size) and are not used when walking, but they still exist - i.e. there are 6 legs like the canopy, and 4 of them, as stated in the book.

please note the photo to #24
http://tovtry.com/ua/info/fauna/redbook.html

CLASS!!!

well, here's another blunder! this is never a chervonets, but a golubyanka a la argus-idas

Argus, to be precise. Wow - a blooper from the blooper catcher!

Argus, to be precise. Wow - a blooper from the blooper catcher!

well, anything can happen )))

L. Zgurovskaya.Crimea.Stories about plants and animals.- Simferopol, 1996



Charaxes jasius was born in the Crimea and did NOT live there. It inhabits North Africa, as well as mainly the eastern Mediterranean coast of Greece, France, Yugoslavia, and Eastern Italy. The only existing report on the discovery of this species in the Crimea (report by N. M. Romanov and M. I. Sirotkin, but due to the lack of factual material, the species is usually not included in the main list of species of Eastern Europe. Alferaki S. N. pointed out the fact that this butterfly species flew to Cape Ai-Todor in the Crimea in the late 70s of the XIX century.

And again the book "Animals of six Continents "(publishing house "Family Leisure Club", 2012), which has already been lit up with blunders on the pages of the site, and here are new finds on entomological topics:



this, of course, is not cabbage whitefly, but Rutabaga, or rutabaga (Pieris napi) - spring first generation



And this is not a common hayloft, but a Black ligea (Erebia ligea)

  L. Zgurovskaya.Crimea.Stories about plants and animals.- Simferopol, 1996
Charaxes jasius was born in the Crimea and did NOT live there. It inhabits North Africa, as well as mainly the eastern Mediterranean coast of Greece, France, Yugoslavia, and Eastern Italy. The only existing report on the discovery of this species in the Crimea (report by N. M. Romanov and M. I. Sirotkin, but due to the lack of factual material, the species is usually not included in the main list of species of Eastern Europe. Alferaki S. N. pointed out the fact that this butterfly species flew to Cape Ai-Todor in the Crimea in the late 70s of the XIX century.

Not so categorically.
and it was observed and caught in the Crimea more than once. The flyer is good, there is a forage plant, there may have been temporary populations, there may be, due to a warming climate.

and it was observed and caught in the Crimea more than once.

Is there any specific information, or is it just a rumor? Gordienko not to offer.

Is there any specific information, or is it just a rumor? Gordienko not to offer.

And what is bad about Gordienko, I saw his charaxis, there are also more recent observations of this species in the Crimea. Very rare stray, and in Danaida in the Crimea did not believe.

And what's wrong with Gordienko, I've seen his charaxis,

It's good. It's a good thing someone saw him at all. I take it that a labeling error is unlikely there?

there are also earlier observations of this species in the Crimea.

Do you have any data? And so, sorry for the bluntness, this is at the level of OTS.