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Discussions on general taxonomy questions of the Insecta. Suggestions on the website database updates and taxa ordering.

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Insects field guides Myosotis

Dear friends, can you tell me what insect detectors of the European part of Russia are available today and where they can be purchased? A great admirer of insects.

23.10.2024 21:29 Victor Titov

Peter, thank you so much for the tip!

Computer identification keys pierrevanstulov

Recently, in some video on YouTube (I think in a lecture by K. Makarov on working with collections), I heard that no one uses text keys with theses and antitheses in parentheses for a long time, and in our computer age everything is entered in ...

19.12.2023 22:51 CosMosk

Lucid Key-standard3I key - Dmitriev's homepage-software and instructions.In principle, some key can be collected from private phylogenetic ...

Z. polyxena sealor

I suggest for the section "Bio-pictures".There is a description, the original image size is 1600X1200X900 KB""Polyxena-Zerynthia polyxena (Denis et Schiffermuller, 1775)== Zerynthia hypsipyle SchulzeFamily of Sailboats-Papilionidae.The butterfly is ...

24.08.2023 8:51 ИНО

I am sure that within a radius of 10 km there will be many more polyxena breeding points. This is not at all a rare butterfly from the steppe zone. ...

Small Carabidae and their genitalia maik

Dear entomologists,If anyone has a photo of a small ground beetle and a photo of genitals, please post it on the page. For starters, Poecilus stenoderus Chaudoir, 1846. Copy from KCR L - 12 mmAcinopus (Acinopus) picipes (Olivier, 1795) Specimen from ...

04.03.2023 9:17 Liyanlong

Previously, there were several such images, but they were not taken, and the internal structure of the genitals was not shown.

Description of parthenogenetic species. Practical criteria for "species" Aleksey Adamov

To be honest, it's a bit difficult for me to even formulate a question... so I'll try to outline a fairly specific situation.In some geo. A beetle was found that was clearly morphologically different from the only co-occurring representative of the ...

03.03.2023 20:19 Anton Nikolaev

There is an interesting day butterfly that no one has done yet. Only females are caught. Most likely ...

Morphology in English convexus

Dear colleagues!When translating the text of the article from Russian to English, I encountered a number of problems. Namely, I can't find the correct and adequate translation for some morphological features.to the back edges of the temples - (to ...

12.11.2021 21:15 ИНО

Clear. Well, since such a popular group, then morphological literature in English should be a car and a small cart, with terminology for every taste ...

Buffalo Beetle Ostapich89

Dear friends, good afternoon!There was a question about the classification of the beetle, which is discussed in this article:Article about beetle food.Please confirm if I understand correctly that this is a bug Alphitobius diaperinus. , as stated in ...

09.06.2021 10:55 ИНО

Hardly anyone breeds him on shit - it's a smelly and unhealthy business. Like other black-bodied beetles, they are bred on bran, etc. In Russia, the ...

People Taxonomy: relationships between Paradigms Yakovlev

For a long time I would like to collect the opinions of respected colleagues about the taxonomy of Narodnaya. I would even like to write an article on this topic together with a philologist or ethnographer. Both scientific and funny.Brief ...

15.04.2021 20:03 ИНО

Not exactly popular, but close. Today, from the mouth of a student-type-entomologist, I heard about the existence of the black-calf family

Eudicella smithii or dicranorrhina smithi? Amir Akhmetzyanov

Good evening! If someone knows the transfers of taxa over the past 50 years, please tell me: Bram's book contains information about Dicranorrhina smithi, a beetle that I could not find anywhere (information about it). At the same time, I found on ...

05.05.2020 21:55 Peter Khramov

They could have done it in the last 50 days, of course...

Morphological keys for detecting Phlebotomus (Larrousius)mosquitoes Liora

Please help me find morphological keys to identify mosquitoes Phlebotomus (Larrousius), with photos or diagrams generally perfect.Maybe there are phlebotomus specialists here? Please tell me what species can be similar to Phlebotomus syriacus, ...

17.07.2019 18:27 Liora

Please help me find morphological keys to identify mosquitoes Phlebotomus (Larrousius), with photos or diagrams generally perfect.Maybe there are ...

Butterfly Alphabet Tsutsugamushi-Fieber

Butterfly AlphabetIn one Asian museum of Natural History, I saw this type of poster on the wall of the entomology lab. I really liked it and later found it on the Internet. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't find out more than one butterfly, and ...

30.03.2019 21:47 Tsutsugamushi-Fieber

How this alphabet was created.https://m.babyblog.ru/user/Litanel/3016631

Add Demochroa genus Vadim Voitsekhovskii

Demochroa is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae, containing the following species:[1] Demochroa detanii Kurosawa, 1983 Demochroa gratiosa Deyrolle, 1864 Demochroa hashimotoi Kurosawa, 1991 Demochroa kiyoshii Endo, 1993 Demochroa ...

02.10.2018 7:15 Vadim Voitsekhovskii

Demochroa is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae, containing the following species:[1] Demochroa detanii Kurosawa, 1983 Demochroa ...

Please refer to synonyms Peter Khramov

Below is a list of pairs of suggested synonyms / generic combinations. Question to the experts in the relevant groups: does this sound like the truth in general?I need to check whether the synonym search script is written correctly in the site ...

05.06.2018 17:14 artmel

Wow, spic.

Please refer to synonyms Peter Khramov

Continuation:Diptera: Musca cardui Linnaeus, 1758 — Urophora cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)Diptera: Paroxyna helveola Ito, 1984 — Campiglossa helveola (Ito, 1984)Diptera: Eristalis geniculatus Zetterstedt, 1838 — Platycheirus manicatus (Meigen, ...

05.06.2018 17:14 artmel

Wow, spic.

Pieris rapae: we need specimen from Russia Dmitrii Musolin

Dear colleagues, good afternoon!I was approached by an American researcher, Sean Ryan. He directs a project to study the turnip whitefly Pieris rapae - pierisproject.org , the purpose of which is to use material from around the world to see how ...

01.06.2018 11:46 Dmitrii Musolin

someone has a very wild imagination and a lot of free time )) and I took care of the pollution, and the security of the country, and counted other ...

Chironomids, imago collections krasheninnikov

Who has an imago of Ural chironomids (except for the Chironomini subfamily) - write. I'll help you with the definitions

23.03.2018 1:38 ИНО

Mine somehow managed without snags, I don't know if they climbed the walls or started directly from the surface - I didn't look closely. Yes, and how ...

Genus Anogcodes, problems with synonymy John-ST

Suspended with these narrow slats. More precisely, at the moment with three species Anogcodes adusta Pz., Anogcodes ustulata F. and Anogcodes rufiventris Scop. (from "green") In addition to the "green", popolzoval beetles of Europe ...

17.02.2018 2:19 John-ST

In my opinion, everything is quite clearly stated in the Catalog of Palaearctic Coleoptera Vol. 5 (2008).Almost all types of your Anogcodes can be ...

Kamalia kandyia wisei (Swinhoe, 1891) (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) Ryan Brookes

http://insecta.pro/taxonomy/704945 Please note that the species kandyia Moore and subspecies wisei Swinhoe is now placed in the genus Kamalia Koçak & Kemal, not Neocerura ...

05.09.2017 21:05 Peter Khramov

The species was transferred to Kamalia in April, 2017.

Barsine gratiosa (Guérin-Méneville, 1843) Ryan Brookes

Photo #64880 http://insecta.pro/gallery/64880 This species has been transferred to the genus Barsine Walker. http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/Tree_of_life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/arctiidae/lithosiinae/barsine/#gratiosa Please ...

05.09.2017 21:03 Peter Khramov

Alex, what's your opinion on the matter?

Pardoxia graellsi (Feisthamel, 1837) Ryan Brookes

Hey insecta.pro, http://insecta.pro/taxonomy/72746 I misidentified this moth as Xanthodes intersepta Guenée, 1852 but it is really Pardoxia graellsi (Feisthamel, 1837). I sent a mail to the admin informing him about the mistake but no ...

05.09.2017 21:02 Peter Khramov

The photo was transferred to Pardoxia graellsi, but only in August 2017 :-)

Corticeus (=Hypophlaeus) barry

The catalog (volume 5) lists the synonym Hypophlaeus for the subgenus Corticeus.Then, for species, the original genus is indicated in two variants with the letters a/o.Hypophlaeus / Hypophlоeus.unicolor Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783: 87 E: AR AU ...

13.07.2017 17:20 Fornax13

According to the original description of Hypophlaeus Fabricius, 1790, and Hypophloeus auctt. subsequent incorrect spelling.This post was edited by ...

We described the fly from the photo Dracus

Zookeys published an article describing the new buzzer exclusively based on one photo:New species without dead bodies: a case for photo-based descriptions, illustrated by a striking new species of Marleyimyia Hesse (Diptera, Bombyliidae) from South ...

28.05.2017 21:56 Dracus

The story is closed. Got out Declaration 45 Commissions where one keyword is used:"Establishing new species-group taxa without preserved name-bearing ...

Taxon status of Pseudophilotes baton (Bergsträsser, 1779) Lycaenidae, Lepidoptera DYNASTES

Who can tell us about the current state of the taxon Pseudophilotes baton(Bergsträsser, 1779) Lycaenidae, Lepidoptera ?It is not included in the latest catalog for the territory of the post-Soviet Union. What was previously considered ...

24.04.2017 15:08 DYNASTES

No one canceled the view, he lives in Zap. Europe and there are on the main Western sites. On the post. USSR lives vicrama. Here is a link to the ...

Translation of a book about nature - help with terminology. About Hymenoptera and butterflies Prolybitherium

Hello, dear forumchane!Currently, I am doing it for the soul (not for money, just for free, and I plan to post the book on my website for everyone) translation of one of the most interesting books: "The Forgotten Pollinators". During the translation ...

23.04.2017 23:35 DYNASTES

Pyralid Moths of Borneo: Part 1 Svetlana Shchavelina

On January 3, Natural History Publications (Borneo) hosted a presentation of the new book "Pyramid Moths of Borneo: Part 1" with the participation of three co-authors: Dr Stephen Sutton, Dr Terry Whitaker and Dato' Henry Barlow Copies are available ...

07.01.2017 21:23 Dmitriy Pozhogin

http://www.pyralidsofborneo.org/index.php?plates-1-10

Current family size of Lepidoptera Endromidae DYNASTES

Question to experts: what is the current definition of the species volume of the Endromidae family (Birch silkworms) ? (Preferably with the name of the relevant publications)This post was edited by DYNASTES - 12/25/2016 19: 49

26.12.2016 17:33 svm2

On Lepiforum there is such a link, I understand for 2011http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt03148p221.pdf

Identification of weevil beetles (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) Mantispid

Identification of weevil beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Saratov regionAuthor: I. A. ZabaluevLink to the beginning of the key:http://coleop123.narod.ru/key/opredslon/opred_slon.htmlLink to the species ...

10.12.2016 9:22 Dracus

Yes, a curious approach!

Site taxonomy explanation ? Miran Cvenkel

http://insecta.pro/taxonomy/2812 Species name(s) Saturnia (Eudia) pavonia (Linnaeus, 1758) = Eudia pavonia (Linnaeus, 1758) = Phalaena pavonia Linnaeus, 1758 = minor Linnaeus, 1758 = Bombyx carpini Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 = alpina Favre, ...

23.10.2016 13:49 Peter Khramov

In this particular case, Saturnia minor.

Misunderstandings with the taxon Lycaena aeolus Wyatt, 1961 DYNASTES

Colleagues, specialists in pigeon-bearing plants, who can clarify the situation with the taxon Lycaena aeolus Wyatt, 1961. Holotype: LNK. male ♂. 4. VIII. 1960. That in general 3a 3ver such. Because it is available in the CC of U3bekistan (2009) ...

01.10.2016 15:36 rhopalocera.com

Third, some authors interpret the name aeolus Wyatt as a homonym of aeolus Fruhstorfer, 1917, but this is not the case. The names are suggested in ...

Classification Alexandr Zhakov

Igor Sakhno, please, check out the Taxonomy page, all Satirinae here belong to Nymphalidae :)

26.08.2016 23:40 Evgeny Komarov

And as soon as you remove it, beaconite, I'll put it in place from scratch - there are all one illustrations there.

External differences Winner-Ariner

between Protaetia fieberi and Cetonia aurata and Protaetia metallica

17.08.2016 22:10 Winner-Ariner

So, something tells me that I haven't been fishing for aurata all these years. I'll check tomorrow.

Taxon authorship: a purely theoretical question Seneka

Who is strong in nomenclature?I often see this form of attribution for taxa: Title Author1, Author2, Author3 & Author4 yearFor example, we take an arbitrary species from the 2003 Catalog of Palearctic Coleoptera.Nebrioporus croceus Angus, ...

29.12.2015 12:31 AVA

[Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg,28.12.2015 21:12]Why? I thought I'd explained it clearly. Since the Code recommends that taxa names should be given WITHOUT ...

Taxonomy of Chorthippus Fieber, 1852 Radik

Please help me with the definition. Tatarstan Nizhnekamsk district. July 2015

11.12.2015 18:35 PVOzerski

In general, Sychev had a whole series of publications on the group, however, quite a long time ago. As far as he is right, as far as not - this ...

Unknown egg layings Yuri Semejkin

There are a few shots ovipositions - presumably beetles and others. Insects. (not Lepidoptera). That I do not know to throw them here-not to throw?, That they have not lost in the mass. And more: Spices masonry seems not.

09.10.2015 19:29 Peter Khramov

Yuri, out. Anywhere they will not get lost, not a lot of photos are of oviposition, most importantly, do not forget to put a sign the appropriate ...

Carabidae subfamilies Evgeny Komarov

Somehow I do not pay attention to the "upper part" of the tree taxa of this family, and now found that the subfamily Harpalinae dumped everything possible and impossible. Adequate classification of ground beetles here http://carabidae.org/taxa! It ...

01.10.2015 15:47 Peter Khramov

Agreed.

Erebidae, Hypenodinae Oleg Pekarsky

To sort Schrankia has published a comprehensive list of known species - Pekarsky O (2012) A new species of Schrankia Hübner, 1825 from China (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Hypenodinae). ZooKeys 242: 43-50. doi: 10.3897 / zookeys.242.3856

13.09.2015 3:05 Peter Khramov

Oleg, now in this section, so very little, so that no problems can unsubscribe here. Vaughn, Paul writes all messages to Insectoids on molbiole ...

Noctuidae, Bryophilinae Oleg Pekarsky

List Stenoloba site contains 15 species, and in 2013 they were 75. Since then, several species described, so that now there are more 80ti. I can provide a list for inclusion in the database.

11.09.2015 16:19 Alexandr Zhakov

Option 2 is excellent. :)

Noctunae, Tribus Agrotini Rambur, 1848 Oleg Pekarsky

Genus Agrotis somehow placed in the tribe Noctuini. It is necessary to move it to the tribe Agrotini.

11.09.2015 12:08 Oleg Pekarsky

Agrotis stenibergmanni raised to species in 2014. Who is online it as a subspecies militaris. Please fix it.

Hemiptera Yuri Semejkin

I would like to ask where classification bugs. From the directory where the determinants or more. And that is not all autosubstitution. And somebody else might say. There is a book. Vinokurov NN Kanyukova EV Golub VB 2010 Catalog poluzhёstkokrylyh ...

10.09.2015 8:48 Peter Khramov

Yuri, I ordered the number of species to show that, overall, the number offhand, significant and to explain the reasons why this or that species on ...

Cetonia aurata jingkelii and C. A. pokornyi DYNASTES

Colleagues, I am looking for any information, ideally the first description, subspecies of Cetonia aurata jingkelii and Cetonia aurata pokornyiThis post was edited by DYNASTES - 12.07.2015 17: 22

12.07.2015 17:22 DYNASTES

Colleagues, I am looking for any information, ideally the first description, subspecies of Cetonia aurata jingkelii and Cetonia aurata pokornyiThis ...

Scope of the taxon Oryctes nasicornis DYNASTES

Colleagues, coleopterists, there was a question about the volume of the seemingly banal taxon Oryctes nasicornis. The question concerns the current taxon scope, valid subspecies, and synonymy. As I understood from sources (Roger-Paul Dechambre & ...

21.06.2015 13:54 Frantic

I have 5 subspecies of nasikornis in my collection (Ukraine, Tajikistan, Spain, Iran, Turkey). Unfortunately, since it is impossible to collect ...

Please help me compile a list of butterflies of the genus Atrophaneura 2m-outrage

Good day to all time of day!I decided to collect butterflies of the genus Atrophaneura. Of course, those that can be imported. But I can't make a list. I found the following ...

14.06.2015 15:05 Alex P

A good shporgalka And most importantly clearly visible some interspecific and intraspecific differences.

Chazaria genus (Noctuidae) and different classifications combining on our site Evgeny Komarov

Our attempt to combine different approaches to classification results in a fair mess on the website. Here's an example: Rod Chazaria - http://lepidoptera.ru/taxonomy/13675 one kind Chazaria incarnata Freyer, 1838. Information on the site is not on ...

13.05.2015 21:03 Evgeny Komarov

OK!

Question about mosquitoes in Volgograd Petenokor

Here's what a man from Volgograd wrote to me today:"we have mosquitoes, although not so many, but huge almost like bees. And blisters after them, too, nitsche such inflated."As far as I understand, in Russia, "big mosquitoes" are only long-legged ...

17.03.2015 9:15 алекс 2611

I have a general suspicion that we are not talking about mosquitoes, but about horseflies of the genus Crysops.

Butterflies, moths, and... moths. Help me to understand Shample

Probably the topic has already been mentioned, if so, could you drop the link. I was interested in the following question: what is the difference between butterflies, moths and moths, and who are the hawkmoth, fireflies and fatheads?I tried to ...

15.03.2015 12:26 Andrey Bezborodkin

Well, the article Lepidoptera on the Wiki is quite tolerable for a wide range of readers, and it has the status of a Favorite thereWell, let him ...

Defining features for distinguishing closely related butterfly species vasiliy-feoktistov

I don't even know if there is such a topic. Therefore, I will ask you to write: if such a topic exists,I will move the post.Inspired by recent discussions in the definition of butterflies...... I decided to show you clearly, in the picture, how it ...

17.02.2015 11:01 Bianor

Comparison of E. tristata and E. hastulata:From here:http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Epirrhoe_Tristata

Systematic list of Palearctic Woodcock Beetles (genus Lethrusscopoli, 1777) Mikhail F. Bagaturov

I was faced with the fact that I could not find the latest taxonomy of the genus in a digestible form. I had to sit for a couple of nights.I hope it will be useful not only for me.  Lethrus_systematic_2015_updated.pdf size: 123.28 k number ...

02.02.2015 2:36 Mikhail F. Bagaturov

WELL, this is a further topic of work

Classification v00d00911

Help us create a modern hierarchical tree of insects. That is, identify all the elements that are included in this structure. For example: Class-subclass-superorder-squad....... type-subspecies. With Latin and Russian names up to species.(I'll find ...

01.02.2015 20:25 John-ST

  http://coleop123.narod.ru/syst2.htmlА почему верблюдки и большекрылые подотряды ...

Papilionidae Dmitriy Pozhogin

We made all kinds in the following childbirth Allancastria, Archon, Baronia, Battus, Bhutanitis, Cressida, Euryades, Hypermnestra, Iphiclides, Lamproptera, Luehdorfia, Parides, Pharmacophagus, Sericinus, Teinopalpus, Trogonoptera (need to move ...

21.01.2015 20:43 Alex Dumchus

Basil . The network just mess with them there. In Zeryntha only 2 types: polyxena and rumina, but please rest in Allanckastr- s

Arcte Golubaya: literature search Ольга Титова

Please help me find literature on the blue Arcta butterfly, including articles. Is there a description of its stages of development?This post was edited by Olga Titova - 12/26/2014 17: 10

29.12.2014 3:48 John-ST

It's a great idea. Please tell me in which section to place "Classification of insects"? And how to lay out butterflies, by family?I think it's ...

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