Discussions on general taxonomy questions of the Insecta. Suggestions on the website database updates and taxa ordering.
Where Eversmannia exornata?
Ilya, if you mean that it is not in the directory - top right there is a link to download the photos of those species are not found in the database ...
Gr-no, which option can be considered more correct?
From L. Bolshakov (and you can trust him) recently received as a valid Laothoe amurensis (Stgr., 1892)
Y-yes, is the name Urania ripheus relevant now or not? If not , what is it instead? Preferably with the author/year. Googled-not Googled...
Chrysiridia rhipheus Drury 1773 like this ...
Here, it is useful if anyone has not seen it: http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/Taxonomy, bibliography, etc.
And a storehouse of images (suitable for the Russian EC)http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/katal...etowy/index.htmScans, photos, etc.
As a scientific name for an insect (= like any other animal), it is customary to give one of the letters of the Latin alphabet (see acc. articles of the Code of Zoological Nomenclature). This is science.Naturally, every language has its own "home" ...
In general, I agree, but ignorance cannot be overcome by unarmed science. Of course, if all illiterate scribblers agreed to "throw away and forget" ...
The suggestion to throw here strange-looking instances - both specific (in cognitive terms) and requiring definition. Including laying out sharply deviated forms (aberrations, gynandromorphs, etc.) of ordinary species (when they may be ...
DIMac"I found such a" non-standard "insect on a well-known site"That's right, it's an aphid of the genus Stomaphis. It belongs to the family ...
My question on locust taxonomy is: what is the difference between the genera Truxalis and Acrida?to PVOzerskiExcuse me, but what are arolias? I'm not an expert on erect wings, so I've looked through everything, but I haven't found this term ...
Pnatno, sps
Can someone tell me where to read about determining the sex of daytime butterflies. This refers to butterflies, the males and females of which do not differ in appearance in the pattern on the wings. I searched the forum, but unfortunately I didn't ...
I don't think there is any special literature. Determining the sex of most diurnal butterflies is actually very simple. Collect a few specimens of ...
Please tell me what species exist in the genus ACHERONTIA. Need links to photos, if possible.
Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758)* Acherontia lachesis (Fabricius, 1798) Acherontia styx Westwood, 1847 сайт Sphingidae of the Eastern ...
D-yes, please confirm the correctness of the suspicion thatOrrhodia fragariae = = Orbona fragariaePlusia chrysitis == Diachrysia chrysitisPlusia gamma = = Autographa gammaor refute...Thank you.
D-yes, please confirm the correctness of the suspicion thatOrrhodia fragariae = = Orbona fragariaePlusia chrysitis == Diachrysia chrysitisPlusia ...
I got the idea to create such a theme. The fact is that there are so many closely related species that are not easy to distinguish, especially from recently described ones. (this series includes Agapanthia violacea and intermedia, Aegomorphus ...
"Sorry to bother you. I was assigned this ladybug to the genus. - Is it possible to get to the view from the photo? Sincerely, Andreas
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Фобетикус_ЧаняI think it will be enough for Guinness 2008.There was also a flight of fancy here:The previous record holder was the stick beetle Phobaeticus kirbyi, which is 2.9 cm shorter.This post was ...
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Фобетикус_ЧаняI think it will be enough for Guinness 2008.There was also a flight of fancy here:The ...
The PNAS website has published an article describing a new species (as well as genus and subfamily) from the Amazon rainforest. Molecular analysis shows that the new species is the most primitive of the modern ants known to science, and it can be ...
The PNAS website has published an article describing a new species (as well as genus and subfamily) from the Amazon rainforest. Molecular analysis ...
do it here on the forum.and then transfer it to the pdf format,arrange it and organize it.create sections with subsections.photos and descriptions.sort by is more convenient, so that a person who doesn't know anything can determine,and not ...
Well, usually such amateur books are written by professionals who are tired of publishing important scientific works, for various reasons. From the ...
Comrades, does anyone have a normal photo (or drawing) of Speolepta leptogaster (Diptera, Mycetophilidae)? I caught an interesting animal, but it doesn't match the color of the green determinant points. Perhaps you can recommend a recent summary of ...
Comrades, does anyone have a normal photo (or drawing) of Speolepta leptogaster (Diptera, Mycetophilidae)? I caught an interesting animal, but it ...
A bumblebee-colored gadfly? I don't know much about entomology, so I'd like to ask more knowledgeable people before throwing the insect out with the dust.Is there such a type of gadfly that completely emits the color of a bumblebee? Thank you.
In the south, in the Crimea and in the Caucasus, there is a very large bumblebee horsefly Tabanus tricolor. In some places it is quite common. Furry, ...
I have such a question no one knows sites or literature where it would be possible to find the genitals of checkers, preferably sites of course. I'm interested in Atalia, Didyma, and Aurelia. During the expedition, I caught 70 specimens in total and ...
While Aurelia's genitals are still not processed (not photoshopped), I'll also post them. But as can be seen from the drawings of harps and aedeagus ...
this specimen is just now I need to accurately identify (Kemerovo region, south of the Kuznetsk basin bordering the Salair ridge, 15.7.2000), and in general it would be nice to exhibit different types of scorpion flies here... ...
Dear Timandr, if you need to "accurately" determine something, one such photo is clearly not enough - you need a series of pictures of different ...
Can anyone tell you anything real about it?Caught by who?http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/coleoptera/imag...at_46_49_1b.jpg
Still, I collected it, the beast is really rare, collected a little, goes into traps only in a certain place, there are a lot of traps nearby, but it ...
What kind of view is shown in the photo?
Thank you all!
here is such a thing (someone's larva, as far as I understand) ~4-6 mm long (I estimated it by eye)I saw it on bamboo leaves (well, in fact, they probably can still sit somewhere - there's just nothing there but bamboo)can you tell me what it ...
hugh, the box just opened :Dthank you!
D-Yes, please clarify the following things, if anyone knows:Hyles lineata = = Hyles livornica ?Procris statics Sorrel mottle / green mottle == Adscitastatics ?Zygaena transalpine Swiss pestle - is there a more modern version of the name ?
For the future, in such cases very often can help:http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insec...tera/index.htmlYes, I know this resource, but the ...
The larva was found in coniferous lumber ( Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk region), length 1.5-1.75 cm, width 1.5 mm. it's kind of hard to define.. Pictures:_______.jpg — (132.85к)
It is actually a larva of Xylophagus sp. (Diptera). And the larvae drilled legs are very well developed
Actually, the subject...This post was edited by Asar - 07.04.2008 19: 26
Lasiocampinae
as I wrote, not based on photos, because it's a separate topic. It's been a long time since I drew something in my spare time (looking under binoculars), but I haven't had a digital camera yet (maybe someone else will have their own drawings). Now I ...
The third person from Turkmenistan, by any chance, does not have long chelicerae?The fifth of the MO is similar to a crab spider of the genus ...
Greetings to all.There is a Russian-language website dedicated to lepidoptera. Or the beginnings of it. The main part of it at the moment is a catalog (descriptions and illustrations by type). As a basis, we use a database provided by a good person ...
Thanks for the tip, that's something!
This year I caught the first Platyderus in my life, in the vicinity of Rostov-on-Don. He identified it from Kryzhanovsky as P. rufus. Later, in correspondence with Alexander Anishchenko (who recently worked on them), he found out that this group is ...
Platyderus rufus (Duftschmidt, 1812) Body length-7 mm.Lviv region,Zolochiv district, near Gologorki.Steppe areas 1-19. V. 07Det. Rizun V. B., ...
To all our fellow ground beetles or simply entomologists,a huge database of ground beetles of the world has been created, including all genera, palearctic, nearctic and some tropical species, as well as data on their distribution. We need a person ...
probably not a little bright, since I want to quickly) we'll redraw the design in general later, probably it's temporary now, just my hands don't ...
I want to share, maybe someone will be interested.I had such a case recently, the collection was replenished with several beetles that looked exactly like Donacia (once already defined ) and I used the 2nd volume of ONEcHSSR ("green") immediately ...
Plateumaris species have two pairs of "species", which some experts consider different, and the other forms of one or synonyms. This is a pair of ...
On our forum, they started posting lists of species from different regions, but they hardly became available to the general public.I suggest submitting them for publication in a new specialized journal Check List Journal http://www.checklist.org.br/ ...
This is a big problem, especially when 96% of the article is written in Latin.
Colleagues, please help us understand the differences between Plebeius argus and P. idas, which are from litzen. The butterfly was taken in North Karelia, male, looks eerily like both of them.This post was edited by Nilson - 04/10/2006 10: 04
Lena! White haymarket from Kyrgyzstan-sunbecca, presumably.
On another thread, I was well advised that my suspiciously light Agabus is most likely an undyed copy, and in this case it fits perfectly in A. sturmi.I want to ask those whose hands have passed more beetles than mine, how often do such unpainted ...
If someone disturbs the beetle while it is still waiting for complete hardening, and it is forced to actively move, it often remains undecorated for ...
Hi everyone, I have a question.please tell me where on the Internet you can view the wing structures of the ichneumonid insect, which belongs to the species Bathyplectes anurus, enlarged under an electron microscope?
Massive chemical warfare has been waged against the alfalfa pest snout-beetle (phitonomus). Humanity may actually win it. But the price may be too ...
Кто что знает о этом таинственном жуке? Он кругом фигурирует ,но никто не может что-то вразумительное сказать о нем. . Версии: C. scabriusculus ...
Да, я еще съездил в Крым, Карпаты, Кавказ и Сибирь..Эх, будем надеятся на более ...
By the way, Plavilshchikov once set out to count all known insect species.Perhaps not the most useless activity. In essence, this means writing a catalog of the world's insects. Although one person is clearly not able to do this. This can be really ...
It is now a very common fashion to arrange taxa in catalogues in alphabetical order. Moreover, often not only species in genera and synonyms are ...
I've seen a lot of variants of insect systems: something like this from two to five classes, if we talk about six-legged tracheinodyshashih in general, and if we talk about Real (Post-maxillary) Insects, then here-a complete mess. In general, I can ...
Without a doubt, Hemimetabola is a polyphyletic taxon, but after Martynov and Rasnitsyn, it is usually no longer considered: Polyneoptera and ...
On many European sites, the family Satyridae is shown as a subfamily of the nymphalidae Satyrinae. By what signs were they assigned to the family nymphalidae?
Indeed, according to our classification, Lybethiadae (snouts) and Ridionidae (or Erycinidae???) - different families. But I don't know why.
Hello everyoneHere is a beetle of the genus Geotrupes.The story is as follows.During the Soviet era, this geotrup was driven in large quantities "to the west" from Talysh (where it is not uncommon) like G. caspius (which, by the way, it doesn't look ...
Thank you dorgoy! Hello to Gusakov from me
After a long break, I went to the entomological forum and, frankly, was pretty surprised. The section "Classification of insects" is filled with topics in the style of "What kind of bee can it be?" and "Help me identify a bug." What does all this ...
Is that you?" http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showuser=17689Does the name and time of registration match? Also forgot your password?I don't ...
That's something I don't understand about these paper wasps-as if there are a lot of similar species that belong to different genera, and maybe even subfamilies.
This view that I drew is only found around the Tien Shan MountainsGuilty, wrong....
In his monumental summary of Mani (Mani, M. S. 1968. Ecology and Biogeography of High Altitude insects. Ser. Entomol., No. 4, 527 pp.) repeatedly mentions the Boreal Alpine scooper Agrotis faticida Hübn. On page 356, for example, for the South Ural ...
Exactly, A. fatidica (Hübner, 1824). V. N. Olschwang has already clarified the situation to me:banal ochepyatka. It was necessary to immediately ...
By determinant: Determinant of insects of the European part of the USSR vol. 2, 1965 (Kryzhanovsky's table). The table for the genus Acinopus is not changed now? I have two species (defined from this table): A. laevigatus and A. picipes both from ...
I scanned the page from the Trigger for this group, send the soap to the PM - I will try to send it.
Hello everyonePlease help me deal with these little things.In M. I. Sirotkin's list of Lepidoptera (Macrolepidoptera) Moscow and Kaluga regions " in the genus Eupithecia, two such species are indicated:E. abietaria GoezeE. bilunulata Schiff.Listed ...
2 Morozzz: I have this volume of European spades, can you tell me what typos are there? and then Elena Mikhailovna recently is not what she was ...
Internal sacs of some barbelsChlorophorus figuratusAraomia moschataBatus hirticornis Pictures:figuratus.jpg — (52.86к) aromia.jpg — (95.12к) batus.jpg — (119.92к)
Internal sacs of some barbelsChlorophorus figuratusAraomia moschataBatus hirticornis Pictures:figuratus.jpg — (52.86к) aromia.jpg — (95.12к) ...
Посчитал количество усиков у самца предположительно V. vulgaris, рабочей V. germanica, к сожалению самца точно германики нету, потом посчитал у ...
how does it not give? A larger number of segments gives greater mobility, because when mating, the male needs mobility to enter the female, imagine ...
Приветствую вас,коллеги!!!После долгого отсутствия я вновь с вами.И нужна помощь....В чем разница между Papilio Machaon и Papilio Hospiton ????
Если верить сайту, представленному Bad Den'ом, то сразу видно по нижнему красному ...
Tuzov has aurota in the determinant, but mesentina does not exist at all, although in other books on the territory of the USSR mesentina was.Why it wasn't brought in,does anyone know?
А почему называются по-разному?Значит так. Во-первых, это синонимы.Во-вторых, ...
Was it given a name? If so, which one, and if not, why?
I'd like to see the works myself.... http://www.paleo.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?p=20495#20495
People! maybe someone has a photo of the caterpillar Pericallia matronula? Please!
Thank you very much!
How does anyone relate to the intraspecific taxonomy of the lemongrass Gonepteryx rhamni in Russia? Just different authors distinguish in different ways, from 1 to 4 subspecies we have and I would like to deal with all this... I am also interested ...
How does anyone relate to the intraspecific taxonomy of the lemongrass Gonepteryx rhamni in Russia? Just different authors distinguish in different ...