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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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Erebia polonina and Erebia limena (8) DYNASTES

Colleagues, we are interested in any information and your thoughts on these taxa. And then on the Internet, these names are not searched for at all.Erebia polonina S. L. Nikolaev in Korshunov & S. L. Nikolaev, 2004Erebia limena Nikolaev, ...

23.12.2014 14:28 Diogen

This is from the catalog of diurnal butterflies of the former Soviet Union.Korb S. K., Bolshakov L. V. 2011. Catalog of bulavous lepidoptera of the ...

Subspecies of Kretania pylaon (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) in the Crimea (23) DYNASTES

При изучении лит-ры возникли непонятки с ареалами подвидов Kretania pylaon.По Плющу, Моргуну и Ко. согласно их диску Дневных бабочек - на ...

22.12.2014 15:52 Valentinus

In which of the Caucasus? In the North, zephyrinus is certainly not present. There is his secret deputy (Dagestan, Gilyazi).And in the North, a zone ...

Leptidea juvernica (Williams, 1946) (35) DYNASTES

Коллеги, что вообще известно с этим таксоном в целом и его обитанием на Украине.По исследованию Dincă, Vlad; Lukhtanov, Vladimir A.; Talavera, Gerard; Vila, Roger (30 ...

20.12.2014 19:02 Valentinus

 По исследованию Dincă, Vlad; Lukhtanov, Vladimir A.; Talavera, Gerard; Vila, Roger (30 April 2011). "Unexpected layers of ...

Agrodiaetus pljushtchi (Lukhtanov et Budashkin, 1993). Taxon status (2) DYNASTES

Коллеги, знаю, что статус таксона двоякий - кто видом считает, кто подвидом Agrodiaetus damone pljushtchi (Lukhtanov et Budashkin, 1993). ну все равно хотелось бы ...

11.12.2014 18:56 Aurelian

  Коллеги, знаю, что статус таксона двоякий - кто видом считает, кто подвидом ...

Species on Lepidoptera.pro: common names (22) Viktor Kolesnikov

Hello! I've been here since lately and since I'm not a professional biologist, I find it's rather hard to deal with Latin names of species not completed with common ones, so have to seek for the latter somewhere else. I wonder if this is kind of ...

01.12.2014 16:12 Andrey Kravtsov

-muzhu Wife: 'What are you all foebis yes foebis (Phoebis)! Vaughn have their garden full of jaundice flies! "

Births Neozephyrus and Chrysozephyrus (Lycaenidae). (2) Evgeny Komarov

I think that finally nuchno for something to come to birth Chrysozephyrus Shirôzu & Yamamoto, 1956 and Neozephyrus Sibatani & Ito, 1942. As of today, we view brillantinus (Staudinger, 1887) is in Neozephyrus and Chrysozephyrus. However in this ...

15.11.2014 8:49 Stan Korb

smaragdinus is the type species Chrysozephyrus, it should only be there.

Taxonomy of the genus Carabus L., 1758 (15) Aleksandr Safronov

Topic for news in the taxonomy of the genus Carabus. Discussion of taxonomy and faunogenesis of the genus. Links and articles on new taxa. Critical views on taxa, subgenera, annotated lists, etc. for all interested forum participants. Don't be mean, ...

03.10.2014 11:15 Бомка

 . Carabus (Morphocarabus) mestscheryakovi ssp. irkoutskensis Lapouge, 1915An obvious error.It is a subspecies of C. odoratus.You should have ...

Rhode Ourapteryx (2) Yuri Semejkin

Here, on the site there are 2 different types of Ourapteryx koreana and O. ussuriana But if you look on Google http://nature.baikal.ru/obj.shtml?obj=fauna&id=ourapteryx_koreana (header called Baikal Nature (krylohvostka Korean). That is the Two ...

19.09.2014 11:37 Peter Khramov

General note: at least some "right" can only be the separation of species, and even then ... For all other taxa "right" does not exist.

20.08.2014 12:51 Peter Khramov

I'm from there and took this assumption. In general, I need that there Perophora sanguinolenta at the moment. But it is not clear ...

16.08.2014 19:34 Peter Khramov

Can anyone advise you?

What is Eriocephala sparmanella? Can you tell me a valid or current name? (2) Peter Khramov

Help, who can, I can't find what it's called now...

02.08.2014 15:21 Peter Khramov

Found. It turned out that Eriocrania sparrmannella was just that.

Help me find a fruit fly pollinator (1) Anastasiiae

Я пишу методику выявления и идентификации дынной мухи Bactrocera cucurbitae. Мне очень нужна книга (White, I.M.; Elson-Harris, M.M. (1992) Fruit flies of economic significance; their ...

15.04.2014 11:02 Anastasiiae

Я пишу методику выявления и идентификации дынной мухи Bactrocera cucurbitae. Мне очень ...

Looking for Russian names of Lepidoptera (8) Aleksandr Ermakov

Actually we only need these comrades here:Nemophora belella (Walker, 1863 ) is a long-whiskered moth. Incurvaria vetulella (Zetterstedt , 1839) (= kivatshella Kutenkova, 1987) -…Morophaga choragella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (= boleti ...

16.03.2014 1:39 John-ST

Can someone tell me the Russian name of Iturgia roraria? Fabr., 1776. and Agriphilla straminella D. & Sch., 1775. Thanks .I s turgia ...

Question about caterpillars (10) guest: AlisaInAsia

Many caterpillars have similarities - for example, hairy tufts on the back ( Orgia antiqua, Calliteara pudibunda ), a hooked tail, horns, a thin body - a large head, outgrowths on the back, and so on.These signs indicate that the caterpillars belong ...

15.02.2014 13:17 guest: AlisaInAsia

I live in Asia. Although I do not see the need to study what is nearby. It is interesting to study what is interesting, not what is at hand.

Unusual Latin names for insects (193) Juglans

No, this is not a joke: there are two genera among grylloblattin fossils-Dalduba Storozhenko, 1996 and Vrezaldiba Storozhenko, 1996. There is also the family Daldubidae. This same author (a big prankster, however!) Together with Novokshonov, he ...

04.02.2014 1:28 Bad Den

Not insects, but names deliver. Apparently the authors are terrible fans of "Predator"en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PredatoroonopsAnd you try to come up ...

Difficult Agrilus (50) Mantispid

Who knows how to reliably distinguish Agrilus cuprescens (Ménétriés, 1832) from Agrilus ribesi Schaefer, 1946

07.01.2014 20:19 AGG

  It's just a pity that not so recent revisions on Aphthona and Longitarsus are not openly posted anywhere...do they exist? give a link to ...

Arctiidae and some other butterflies of Ecuador (19) AGG

Gentlemen, experts and lovers of tropical fauna, I ask for help in identifying bears and some other families of Ecuadorian fauna.I created a separate topic for moderators, so they'll get lost in the general category, and it's incorrect to put ...

07.01.2014 11:03 AGG

я точно рехнусь с этими бабочками. вроде, всё отсортировал, но пока вчера ...

Minor nomenclature questions (50) avc

Please tell me what these flies are called in Russian:Empis scutellata, Hilara quadrivittata, Hilara maura, Hilara thoracica. Very necessary, but nowhere in the Internet!

27.11.2013 11:09 Stenus

Question on the taxonomy of Mecynorrhina oberthuri Fairmaire, 1903. This species has a number of forms, in particular unicolor and decorata. Forms ...

Eupatorus hardwickei var.niger (Arrow 1910) (1) Zunimassa

Hello everyone.I'm looking for information about this variation.Preferably a photo if anyone has it.Or maybe someone saw it on sale and knows the approximate cost.So far, I have only this.This post was edited by Zunimassa - 04.09.2013 02: 51

04.09.2013 2:48 Zunimassa

Hello everyone.I'm looking for information about this variation.Preferably a photo if anyone has it.Or maybe someone saw it on sale and knows the ...

Guide ID Status (7) Seneka

Interested in the opinion of professional taxonomists published in publications on the taxonomy of insects. The question is probably stupid, but I'd rather ask again.Are the determinants, from the formal (and traditional in narrow circles of ...

22.08.2013 18:52 Seneka

I looked it up in Krasny. Indeed, there are a lot of examples.The issue is closed. Thank you all.

Help me find Russian names for leaf beetles (25) энтом

Please help me with the Russian names of leaf beetles Chrysolina polita and Chrysomela aenea. I searched, in the Internet there is no but very necessary.

06.08.2013 23:08 Mantispid

the ejaculator rider also shoots eggs on the flyThis post was edited by Mantispid-06.08.2013 23: 08

Crimean subspecies Lucanus cervus: does it exist? (2) DYNASTES

Colleagues, who has adequate and up-to-date information about valid subspecies of the deer beetle Lucanus cervus ?This year I caught a male f. media in Yalta. According to the Zinovsky website, the subspecies Lucanus cervus tauricus (Motschulsky, ...

22.06.2013 15:59 GlebSinon

This was discussed in Lucanus cervus and Other Beetles, like in Rogachs. So we didn't really come to anything.It is quite possible that someone has ...

General classification (21) Коллекционер

Dear forumchane, today I tried to create a systematic tablet about insects - from superclass to detachments..(using sources from the Internet)it turned out somehow so can you tell me if it turned out correctly? what to add where, what to remove ...

07.04.2013 23:44 Dracus

Again, there are no correct classifications, there are those that are in use, and those that are out of use. The latter are not necessarily incorrect ...

Internet identification of Russian wasps (50) TimK

For AVA, thank you so much. Could you give me a hint from the search results? Lelei and Dubatolov for Polistes chinensis indicate the habitat area - the Far East, but this species is also included in the Index of Insects of the European part of the ...

05.03.2013 12:40 TimK

No kidding: I wonder how successful it is to photograph genitals in this way? Have you tried this before?This is what I shot in this way in my ...

Acidota crenata or something very close (9) Seneka

Determined here by the "Green" Acidota crenata.Caught in PTZ, in soil traps.Confused by the size and colorThey write that the size is 5-7 or 6-7 mm.Mine:male 7.3-7.5 mm (there is a cut on the penultimate stubble)female 8.3-8.5 mm (no ...

03.03.2013 11:33 Mantispid

in general, to determine staphylinid by external signs is a terrible masochism, it's easier to pull and not fool yourself.

Taxonomy of Hymenoptera (35) NagaLV

Hello! Please tell me the answer to the following question:What are the suborders of the order Hymenoptera (Hymenoptera)? Some sources say that there are three: sessile-bellied hymenoptera (Symphyta), parasitic hymenoptera (Parasitica) and stingy ...

01.03.2013 14:39 Seneka

What a wonderful idea! So, the whole point of parsley is that the goal of taxonomy is not at all to provide practitioners with a convenient ...

Identification of homologous organs in insects (4) ivan iosifovich

what are the homologous organs of an ant, fly, dragonfly, bee, and butterfly?

14.02.2013 23:10 Mantispid

Yes, please. The fly's buzzes are homologous to the hind wings of dragonflies, bees, and butterflies.

Genus Philonthus - another typo? (12) Seneka

In the Index of insects of the European part of the USSR T II.Coleoptera/ Staphylinidae, p. 140, theses 11 (14) and 14 (11), are they not mixed up in places?How many points in each longitudinal row on the pronotum should there be in such species ...

21.01.2013 12:39 Fornax13

I've seen such asymmetric instances before.And you can, if it is not difficult, post scans of these tables in the section "Scans of books with ...

Notodonta torva and Notodonta ziczac (6) bials

I created this topic because I have long been tormented by some doubts about the definition of this or that type of photo.I have already asked a question about Notodonta torva and Notodonta ziczac caterpillars in the topic of determining larvae and ...

16.01.2013 21:48 Pavel Morozov

Here, links to lepiforum.dehttp://lepiforum.de/cgi-bin/lepiwiki.pl?Notodonta_Ziczachttp://lepiforum.de/cgi-bin/lepiwiki.pl?Notodonta_TorvaThe zigzag ...

Russian name Hemiptera (12) Mistes

I apologize to the experienced forumchan-I'm a botanist, not an entomologist. However, recently I came across a discrepancy in entomological nomenclature, which turned out to be incomprehensible to me. For bedbugs, cicadas, etc., the Latin name of ...

09.01.2013 20:45 Dmitrii Musolin

Not the easiest question... Oddly enough, there is a difference in domestic and foreign reports.In domestic media, they have recently been writing ...

S. lubricipedum and D. mendica are there any clear differences (33) sealor

The image is presumably of Diaphora mendica on the left and S. lubricipedum on the right. As I understand it, mendica has three points on the outer edges of the upper wings, which are the base of a triangle with a vertex on the inner edges of the ...

08.01.2013 19:52 vasiliy-feoktistov

Yes, that's right, I forgot about the belly completely.Here male D. mendica: differs radically even in the sawyere. Not to mention the abdomen, ...

Please help me with synonyms for butterflies (1) Peter Khramov

On the Planet, some species that go separately on Lepidopter are combined into one. Can anyone tell offhand where the information from the Site is adequate, and where-no?Below is a list of views based on the following template:1 -- number -- code ...

30.12.2012 22:18 Peter Khramov

On the Planet, some species that go separately on Lepidopter are combined into one. Can anyone tell offhand where the information from the Site is ...

Question: Who is the "banana cricket"? (17) PVOzerski

This insect is one of the most widely distributed species of the Gryllus genus in the culture, clearly from the American species (according to experts I know). But no one tried to define it to the species (as for me, I didn't get around to raising ...

26.11.2012 18:56 PVOzerski

Well, Google translated it as "crazy red", and in the original article "crazy red".

Cosmotriche laeta == Euthrix laeta? Synonyms? (2) Peter Khramov

And of these, Euthrix laeta is more adequate. Am I getting this right?

04.11.2012 18:48 AntSkr

Yes

Does anyone know the Latin name for this butterfly? (3) Peter Khramov

Actually, subject.

03.11.2012 12:01 Peter Khramov

Denis, this was originally supposed to be the case here http://lepidoptera.ru/community/10606, but there were doubts in the comments. Therefore, I ...

Do we have any synonyms for Hemaris scabiosae? (3) Peter Khramov

I can't find this species. This usually means that there is some more common name. Can someone suggest some options?Thank you.

25.10.2012 14:16 Peter Khramov

Oh, thank you. So that's right.

Similar names of arthropod taxa (12) Dr. Niko

As they say, to remember. So far, what I found is random or not.Well, post, of course, your findings.Symbols:r -- kingdom;ph -- type;c -- class;o -- squad;in -- infra;sb-- sub;sp-- super;Ranks with stable endings are not specified. I suggest you ...

04.10.2012 21:30 Dr. Niko

Channidae - c Actinopterygii, o Perciformes;Hahniidae - c Arachnida, o Araneae;

Gonepteryx aspasia color variability (3) John-ST

I'll start from the beginning: The young lady shows a photo of a lemongrass, which is actually a typical yolk. I tell her that it's not a lemongrass, but a jaundice. She told me how difficult it is for you entomologists. No, I say everything is ...

29.09.2012 15:29 Елена М

I confirm Bianor-a and about aspasia and about Maxima.

Red morph of Decticus verrucivorus (3) Whatever

I remembered catching grasshoppers as a child. So, occasionally, in addition to gray and green variations of verrucivorus, there were bright maroon ones. Is this some kind of local mutation? Did anyone else see them at all?Location: Kostroma region, ...

28.09.2012 17:42 Anax chernobila

I came across different ones... And yellow and pink and bright red and burgundy, once caught a blacksmith with a blue side. I have it in my ...

Problems of taxonomy and phylogeny (297) Konstantin Shorenko

The ancient view that the genitals of male and female insects fit together like a key to a lock and provide mechanical isolation of species has been repeatedly challenged by the example of very different groups. Apparently, this principle works, ...

21.09.2012 8:38 Guest

Dear forumchane! Tell me, please, who in Russia is engaged in molecular genetic analysis of invertebrate species? I need this to perform a ...

Please clarify the situation with Polyommatus kamtschadalus/kamtshadalis (4) Peter Khramov

Blue has P. kamtshadalis. In other sources, P. kamtschadalus. And then there is P. eros kamtschadalis with the same author/year.Gentlemen, please clarify the situation with these taxa, whether they are all the same, and, if so, what can be ...

28.08.2012 22:43 Peter Khramov

According to the works of B. V. Stradomsky and co-authors, P. eros kamtshadalis should be considered the" main " one at the moment. Wow. Well, ...

Korscheltellus variabilis == Thitarodes variabilis? (1) Peter Khramov

People, are the two subject types synonymous or not? If not — then are there any synonyms for Korscheltellus variabilis?

28.08.2012 19:49 Peter Khramov

People, are the two subject types synonymous or not? If not — then are there any synonyms for Korscheltellus variabilis?

Literature on ant taxonomy (10) Hartmann

Hello. The question is-what literature and where can I find on the taxonomy of the family Formicidae?This post was edited by Hartmann - 03.04.2012 15: 57

17.08.2012 19:19 Hartmann

thank you for your answers, unsubscribed in PM.

Identifying insects for children (14) Эльфа

I teach a course on general child development and the program requires children to collect a collection of 25 insects and sign eachone - where it was caught- when it was caught- who caughtit - what is the name of this insect.And if there are no ...

03.06.2012 22:44 Эльфа

Royal Rangers Program http://royal-rangers.com.ua/I'm from Cherkasy myself. For each test, there are 5-6 classes, if according to the normal scheme, ...

Microlepidoptera и Macrolepidoptera (5) Aleksandr Ermakov

I understand that this division is quite artificial, but nevertheless the composition of these groups has long been determined. But there is no single answer on the web, and in general, to be honest, there is no normal answer. Please help me clarify ...

25.05.2012 20:25 Лавр Большаков

The compilers of the Catalog, and earlier Kuznetsova and Stekolnikov, and all modern specialists in the taxonomy of lepidoptera, consider the ...

Appeal to scientists from the community antclub.ru (8) antfarmer

Hello!I am the site administrator http://antclub.ru.I have long been interested in ants, although at the level of an amateur, but I have reread all the available literature.I want to make a convenient ant detector, but I don't have enough knowledge ...

21.02.2012 17:57 antlook

The scope and quality of a trait is treated unequally by each researcher, as is the concept of a species, so this reference book, if created, can ...

Postdoctoral position in Diptera taxonomy/systematics Systematics of diptera: Postdoc in South Africa (8) Mike Mostovsski

Postdoctoral position in Diptera taxonomy/systematicsThe National Research Foundation (NRF) on behalf of the Department of Scienceand Technology (DST) is offering SABI (South African Biosystematics Initiative)Postdoctoral Fellowships.These ...

12.02.2012 13:23 Pirx

We urgently need to protect another one!!! Lovely toast!

Hawk moths of Russia, questions of taxonomy (6) Pavel Smirnov

A few theoretical questions for specialists on several species of hawk moth noted in Russia (according to the Sineva catalog)...1) Hemaris alternata (Butler, 1874) - is it a synonym for affinis or is it an independent species? If the latter, how do ...

08.02.2012 13:31 Pavel Morozov

How will these hawk moth be written in Russian:Macroglossum saga, Acherontia lachesis, Mimas christophi, Marumba sperchius, Proserpinus flavofasc, ...

Species: structure and dynamics (185) Aleksey Adamov

There are some genera that are represented by only one species that has a huge range. For example, the genus Cardioderus (from ground beetles) is represented (on the territory of the former USSR) by a single species C. chloroticus F.-W. (see ...

29.01.2012 22:34 Seneka

I just looked it up.Not in the article, but in the code's dictionary of terms:"A population or group of populations of organisms....."Yes, indeed, ...

Abbreviated spelling of taxon authors (13) Aleksandr Ermakov

Dear entomologists, please tell me where you can find the most complete list of authors of insect taxa (especially Coleoptera, Lepidoptera) and correct spelling of abbreviated versions of their surnames. I know about the lists of the most ...

26.01.2012 22:48 Shofffer

Dear entomologists, please tell me where you can find the most complete list of authors of insect taxa (especially Coleoptera, Lepidoptera) and ...

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