Cryptoentomology

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15.01.2009 18:25, Yakovlev

One well-known entomologist-Honored Scientist of the USSR-you've seen his books, Omar-once saw a new family of insects in the hands of his student. And the disciple now is also a very big man. I took it and described it myself.
Another - less titled, but no less famous-found out that I was going to describe one butterfly - said-This, Roma, x .. nya, and then took and described it himself.
The third-titled average-took a few of my butterflies in 1999 - under the condition if we describe new ones together. Then I wrote to my colleague (not knowing that we are friends) - yes, the species are new, but I will describe them myself because Yakovlev is still young, he will have enough for his age.
The fourth one didn't even mention a bunch of apprentices in his writings.
How many poor graduate students hunched over their non-commercialized teachers who took their work, how many candidates wrote monographs and became the fourth co-author after the academician, corresponding member, and professor.
How many scientists have hidden their types, their results from their colleagues.
I can cite hundreds of these examples, and I can guarantee that there are as many vile people in academic circles as there are in Bursa. Psychopathology is democratic. An insect seller who has deliberately mixed up labels is no worse than a professional entomologist who negligently identifies types, keeps collections in the dust, and behaves dishonestly with young colleagues.

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17.01.2009 1:09, Насекомовед

It was in Mordovia, at a botanical practice (1991). I found, though already dead, but in an absolutely "wild" place, a large, about 3 cm in length, black staphylin. Then Alexey Klimenko came to visit us (I don't think there's much need to introduce him; he was engaged in this family at one time). So he recognized him as a representative of the Central Asian family, which in no way could be in Mordovia. Saying that I was deceiving him, he took the beetle for himself. This discovery remained unexplained.

I once visited the Natural History Museum in Budapest. I watched the types of locusts described by Steinmann (the Spiteful Brandashmyg has especially tender feelings for him). It was here that I saw a couple of holotypes of cryptozoological material

- glued insects - mixed legs and elytra from representatives of different superfamilies... At the same time, both types were standing almost side by side.

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20.01.2009 16:10, omar

Well okay. I'll tell you more. Angry, me, angry today. Not all specialists have the opportunity to go to fairs and beg for insects from merchants. Some don't have time, some don't have enough money, and some just don't want to beg and promise to name a new species with the name of commmersat. If only because begging is humiliating. And some people simply do not want to call the view with the merchant's last name on principle for ethical reasons, such as Tentator. And after all, it's no secret that the most correct hands are the hands of venerable specialists from the old guard, who, as a rule, are limited in funds, have little mobility (due to health problems, for example) and have principled views on naming insects. How many of the most correct hands are cut off in this way? That's right, a lot. I strongly doubt that the good uncle merchant would have gone to Kerzhner's, for example, to show him the mattresses, so that he would have chosen the right beetles, based only on the fact that Kerzhner was the best specialist in the group and his hands were the most correct. Or, let's say, a businessman would come with black chicks to Gleb Medvedev. If this is not the case, try to object.

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