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

- In any case, it is much more important and absolutely necessary to highlight imeno errors in the "legal" literature (so that the amateur's brain does not twist, not to mention ethics and perception of information); in the flesh to the point that even create a corresponding review for each book with such amendments....
- In short, - either I create a separate topic, or I publish it in this one.

- "What will the PACK SAY"?....

It seems that somewhere there was a topic "Errors of the green determinant" ...

I'm in favor of a separate topic. This one is still entertaining.

In entomology, there are still so many shortcomings in many groups, the lack of revisions of many groups, new species are constantly described, many are not studied, that there are shortcomings in almost all literature.. Another thing is when random or stupid mistakes about fairly common types..
In any case, the topic is needed to know the blots, errors and shortcomings of certain books.
And reviews are generally interesting to make.

Great theme! Let's, of course, in a separate one.

- Thank you for your support. "I'll scan some of the material and conceive it.

Maybe not quite on the topic, but still.

However, a sensation: Callipogon relictus in the European part of Russia

This is how biology classrooms are designed in some schools

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However, a sensation: Callipogon relictus in the European part of Russia
This is how biology classrooms are designed in some schools

Heh-heh, what's this?
In the Simferopol Museum of Local Lore, a peacock's eye from China hangs on the stands with butterflies of the Crimea!
There is a photo of the exhibition here, it's just a pity that the peacock's eye didn't get into the frame, it hangs slightly to the right.

This post was edited by okoem - 02/17/2009 17: 13

Here's the thing.
I came across a photo:


I was very pleased with the genus Himantopterus, and decided to search for information on it in Wikipedia. I enter the query Himantopteridae (family where this genus belongs):



and on the same page:



Well, I click on Himantopterus and get:



I searched the Web - there are really a lot of references to the fact that himantopterus is a genus of Paleozoic eurypterids.
- Hoho!!! "I think so. "That's it! Now I'll write to some taxonomy committee and say: gentlemen, look at what's going on here!

But no... It turns out that the bourgeois Wikipedians either simply do not know or ignore the fact that the genus eurypterid Himantopterus was renamed Slimonia: http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/p...ypterida_1.html



So the information becomes outdated over time, and they are not going to change it yet...

Can someone else give similar examples?

Duc is not a blunder on the web, but a zoological nomenclature in its living development. Homonymy is an unpleasant phenomenon that should be corrected according to all nomenclature codes, but it is inevitable-given the incredible number of species and genera described by zoologists (primarily entomologists). As a blunder, this could be regarded, IMHO, only if the "bourgeois Wikipedia" was an expert on eurypterids. And you, as a person who found an error in Wikipedia, have a sacred task to correct it - since it is technically possible due to the peculiarities of the organization of this resource. Just remember to save the information that Himantopterus is not only a valid name for a butterfly genus, but also an invalid name for one of the eurypterid genera, for which Slimonia is a valid synonym.

But the phrase "butterflies and moths" is, indeed, a blunder, an illiterate translation from English. For some reason, non-specialists always try to translate " moth "either as" moth "or as" moth "- although in Russian this, like" butterfly", should be translated as"butterfly".

This post was edited by PVOzerski - 06.04.2009 11: 43

Read it all and the palazzo:
http://www.orthodoxrevival.com/links/Docum...a_strumosa.html

Read it all and the palazzo:
http://www.orthodoxrevival.com/links/Docum...a_strumosa.html

And how does the bestiary go to bed after that??? They will write SUCH nonsense.

Well, apparently the author looked around - and slightly added from the surrounding "palette"...

Well, apparently the author looked around - and slightly added from the surrounding "palette"...

No!!! Legalize cannabis in Russia nizza

> And how does the bestiary go to bed after that??? They will write SUCH nonsense.

- Well, of course! The best remedy for lAmehusa is "To pray, fast, listen to Radio Radonezh..." (c)

This post was edited by Fornax13-08.04.2009 00: 13

Read it all and the palazzo:
http://www.orthodoxrevival.com/links/Docum...a_strumosa.html

Yes, damn it! I can't find any decent words, and if I say everything I think, they'll ban me.

Well, this is the author of the pearl, as they say, " heard the bell, but does not know where it is." Although, you will agree, you can dig out grains of truth with proper preparation from this masterpiece. And, interestingly, can you find anything competent about the interaction of myrmecophilic staphylinids with ants on the Web?

Well, this is the author of the pearl, as they say, " heard the bell, but does not know where it is." Although, you will agree, you can dig out grains of truth with proper preparation from this masterpiece. And, interestingly, can you find anything competent about the interaction of myrmecophilic staphylinids with ants on the Web?

Well, these grains of truth are more than compensated for:
"A fat annelid worm covered with hairs, resembling a shaggy caterpillar..
..they indulge in drug bacchanalia around a fat worm that secretes sticky nectar. "

Read it all and the palazzo:
http://www.orthodoxrevival.com/links/Docum...a_strumosa.html

Vigilance comrades! Vigilance! and once again vigilance!
They're crawling around here.".. all sorts of things...

Well, this is the author of the pearl, as they say, " heard the bell, but does not know where it is." Although, you will agree, you can dig out grains of truth with proper preparation from this masterpiece. And, interestingly, can you find anything competent about the interaction of myrmecophilic staphylinids with ants on the Web?

Well, what kind of "grains of truth" can there be here? It is clear to everyone that this is not a worm or an anthill at all.

Propaganda "designed for the level of a soldier of the 1914 model of the year". I am only afraid that in comparison with the current masses, the soldiers of the "1914 model" will still turn out to be an intellectual...

I once read an anti-drug article in a newspaper that used the same topic - staphylin in an anthill... < offtop id="1">Oh, the Strugatskys with the title of their novel have let you down... The wrong associations are caused by...< / offtop> As for the idea of the quoted opus - and you know, if you look at what is being done with education and science, what the media offers us to read and watch - the same images appear in the same sense. Only more adequate to what happens in nature, of course.

By the way, about the "fat worm" - duc, they probably inadvertently dragged the caterpillar of the golubyanka here, all mixed up.

I didn't find a more appropriate theme for this junk

This post was edited by Liparus - 04/26/2009 11: 12

Yesterday I saw Zadornov on TV, he spoke, his words:
"eyes like a botanist who saw a pterodactyl in a net"

Whether Zadornov's botanists run around with nets, or botanists are engaged in birds, or entomology, in general, it is not clear )

Whether Zadornov's botanists run around with nets, or whether the botanists are engaged in birds, or entomology, in general, it is not clear )

And now I just answer Aboriginal questions right away: "I'm a nerd." And it immediately becomes clear to them why I'm with a net.

And I'm now so immediately and answer the questions of the aborigines: "I'm a botanist ...

... and making a butterfly herbarium! "

And now I just answer Aboriginal questions right away: "I'm a nerd." And it immediately becomes clear to them why I'm with a net.

A real-life incident. In the suburbs of Kharkiv, I'm standing with my camera over a flower, taking pictures of someone. Natives walk by. One says: "Look-nerd!" And the other to him: "And imagine, you would be like this".

.. And I'm making a butterfly herbarium!"

But seriously, my practice has shown that you need to answer as primitively as possible, so that the common people can understand. That is, no "entomologist", "herbarium", etc. "I am a botanist, I study insects" - almost any shepherd or fisherman can master this phrase

But seriously, my practice has shown that you need to answer as primitively as possible, so that the common people can understand. That is, no "entomologist", "herbarium", etc. "I am a botanist, I study insects" - almost any shepherd or fisherman can master such a phrase  

Moreover, for the average person, "nerd" is not so much a specialty as an image of a crank (at best) who is engaged in some nonsense, and therefore deserves only sympathy and pity. And these feelings, as you know, immediately remove the wariness and aggressive orientation that exists to everything incomprehensible and strange.

All right. In this sense, the phrase of the hero from the film "Brother" with Sergey Bodrov is particularly indicative. Where he is a demob in a police station, after being detained, they ask him "Where did he serve?" Phrases of this kind immediately exclude a series of similar questions that inevitably arise from the curious (and even the most stupid ones are often very curious, and you need to be very distracted to explain how, what, why, why, and from where)

Maybe you've already written about KK CHO. A friend gave me the link:
http://www.forum.redbook.ru/redbook219.html The praying mantis is a crumb, but in the picture... the mantispa.

Oh, and "Mantiptera", not otherwise than from Mantidae.

cool is how to confuse a cockroach with a beetle)

Yes, experts from IERIZH screwed up with this drawing (judging by the signature of P. Gorbunov). By the way, the error was noticed immediately and published more than once, for example - About the Red Book of the Chelyabinsk regionhttp://www.redbook.ru/article1087.html

I don't want to create a separate topic, but I was very pleased, so I decided to post it here.
I was recently in the well-known Moscow bookstore Biblio-Globus. Well, in general, I came across a kind of wonderful little book-N. M. Zhirmunskaya "The Secret Life of pests", Dilya publishing house, 2008.
I present its cover to our esteemed audience:



I don't think many of you have noticed anything like this, but I know this picture.
On the cover - a piece of illustration torn out without a twinge of conscience in the book by D. Bailey, T. Seddon "Prehistoric World", Moscow, ed. "Rosman", 1995. This was my first nonfiction book on paleontology, which I am very fond of.

I recently bought this book. She's wonderful! It is about the life of so-called pests and the fact that it is easier to make friends with them than to fight.
As for the drawings-there are also strange illustrations on the reverse side-apollo, mayfly, dragonfly - if the dragonfly can still be considered a pest fighter (it catches flies), then what does the mayfly have to do with it, it is not clear.

And the picture is not by chance Devon or carboniferous depicts? And then why is there a butterfly?

And the picture is not by chance Devon or carboniferous depicts? And then why is there a butterfly?

Yes, it's a carboniferous swamp. And the butterfly, indeed , is a wild school
Well, the benefit is not we alone in Rassey kosyachim

of the Lepidoptera class
http://nightbabochki.com/dnev_to.html this is generally
http://nightbabochki.com/ukazat.html

Pre-school organizations...
http://nightbabochki.com/dnev_se.html
http://nightbabochki.com/dnev_ba.html
By the way, where is Taiganat Park located?

Exquisite NONSENSE! Who created this?