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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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Eversmannia exornata (2) Ilia Ustiantcev

Where Eversmannia exornata?

25.06.2009 19:47 Peter Khramov

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 ...

Laothoe tremulae or L. amurensis tremulae (2) Peter Khramov

Gr-no, which option can be considered more correct?

09.06.2009 15:53 Aaata

From L. Bolshakov (and you can trust him) recently received as a valid Laothoe amurensis (Stgr., 1892)

Urania ripheus (2) Peter Khramov

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...

24.05.2009 20:50 lepidopterolog

Chrysiridia rhipheus Drury 1773 like this ...

For cassid fans (2) Mikhail F. Bagaturov

Here, it is useful if anyone has not seen it: http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/Taxonomy, bibliography, etc.

04.05.2009 10:11 DIMac

And a storehouse of images (suitable for the Russian EC)http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/katal...etowy/index.htmScans, photos, etc.

Features of the Russian-language nomenclature, Russian equivalents - pros and cons (50) Насекомовед

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" ...

21.03.2009 1:42 А.Й.Элез

In general, I agree, but ignorance cannot be overcome by unarmed science. Of course, if all illiterate scribblers agreed to "throw away and forget" ...

Non-standard insects! (50) Timandr

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 ...

30.01.2009 13:07 Vital62

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 ...

Taxonomy of locusts: Truxalis and Acrida (13) Dracus

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 ...

13.01.2009 1:17 Vabrus

Pnatno, sps

Determining the sex of butterflies (7) bahurin

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 ...

12.01.2009 18:12 okoem

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 ...

Genus Acherontia (2) valdai

Please tell me what species exist in the genus ACHERONTIA. Need links to photos, if possible.

25.12.2008 1:28 swerig

Acherontia atropos (Linnaeus, 1758)* Acherontia lachesis (Fabricius, 1798) Acherontia styx Westwood, 1847 сайт Sphingidae of the Eastern ...

A couple of questions about synonyms (2) Peter Khramov

D-yes, please confirm the correctness of the suspicion thatOrrhodia fragariae = = Orbona fragariaePlusia chrysitis == Diachrysia chrysitisPlusia gamma = = Autographa gammaor refute...Thank you.

14.12.2008 23:10 Vlad Proklov

D-yes, please confirm the correctness of the suspicion thatOrrhodia fragariae = = Orbona fragariaePlusia chrysitis == Diachrysia chrysitisPlusia ...

Coleoptera identification for closely related, hard-to-distinguish species (50) RippeR

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 ...

21.10.2008 21:45 Андреас

"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

Longest insect found: Phobaeticus chani (1) Dr. Niko

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 ...

19.10.2008 23:08 Dr. Niko

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Фобетикус_ЧаняI think it will be enough for Guinness 2008.There was also a flight of fancy here:The ...

A new subfamily of ants (Martialinae) is described from Brazil (1) Kovalevsky

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 ...

16.09.2008 12:22 Kovalevsky

The PNAS website has published an article describing a new species (as well as genus and subfamily) from the Amazon rainforest. Molecular analysis ...

Dictionary for the amateur entomologist (6) зорк

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 ...

03.09.2008 23:39 Konstantin Shorenko

Well, usually such amateur books are written by professionals who are tired of publishing important scientific works, for various reasons. From the ...

Photo of Speolepta leptogaster (Mycetophilidae) (1) Troglodit

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 ...

17.08.2008 13:36 Troglodit

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? (8) guest: Alex

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.

06.08.2008 8:38 Pirx

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, ...

Identification of Melitea by genitals (16) Трофим

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 ...

14.07.2008 11:07 Трофим

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 ...

Scorpionflies (2) Timandr

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... ...

10.07.2008 18:24 IchMan

Dear Timandr, if you need to "accurately" determine something, one such photo is clearly not enough - you need a series of pictures of different ...

Carabus fraterculus (12) Mikhail F. Bagaturov

Can anyone tell you anything real about it?Caught by who?http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/coleoptera/imag...at_46_49_1b.jpg

03.07.2008 14:47 Cerega

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 ...

Help me to identify the Carabus beetles (10) Sergey Rybalkin

What kind of view is shown in the photo?

09.06.2008 21:07 Sergey Rybalkin

Thank you all!

A larva? (3) Ratte

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 ...

26.05.2008 17:51 Ratte

hugh, the box just opened :Dthank you!

A couple of questions about the synonymy of Lepidoptera (4) Peter Khramov

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 ?

11.05.2008 12:27 Peter Khramov

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 ...

Larva (6) Аллена

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)

30.04.2008 22:39 Guest

It is actually a larva of Xylophagus sp. (Diptera). And the larvae drilled legs are very well developed

What subfamily does Paralebeda femorata belong to? (2) Peter Khramov

Actually, the subject...This post was edited by Asar - 07.04.2008 19: 26

07.04.2008 19:56 AntSkr

Lasiocampinae

Identification of arthropods from drawings (4) Timandr

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 ...

31.03.2008 20:38 Tigran Oganesov

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 ...

Current classification of butterflies and moths (5) Peter Khramov

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 ...

16.03.2008 19:26 Peter Khramov

Thanks for the tip, that's something!

Problems with Platyderus… (6) Aleksey Adamov

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 ...

15.03.2008 18:08 rpanin

Platyderus rufus (Duftschmidt, 1812) Body length-7 mm.Lviv region,Zolochiv district, near Gologorki.Steppe areas 1-19. V. 07Det. Rizun V. B., ...

Ground beetles of the world (30) paganel

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 ...

31.01.2008 20:48 REDBOOK

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 ...

"Childish" beetles identificatoin errors (9) amara

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 ...

26.01.2008 9:39 Dmitry Vlasov

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 ...

New International Magazine Check List Journal (3) Proctos

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/ ...

27.12.2007 10:22 Mylabris

This is a big problem, especially when 96% of the article is written in Latin.

Argus or Idas? (26) Nilson

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

20.12.2007 5:52 А.Й.Элез

Lena! White haymarket from Kyrgyzstan-sunbecca, presumably.

Unpainted beetles, how often do they come across? (6) amara

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 ...

05.11.2007 12:34 Victor Titov

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 ...

Campopleginae (19) Павел Р

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?

26.09.2007 20:50 Sparrow

Massive chemical warfare has been waged against the alfalfa pest snout-beetle (phitonomus). Humanity may actually win it. But the price may be too ...

Carabus rybinskii (13) rpanin

Кто что знает о этом таинственном жуке? Он кругом фигурирует ,но никто не может что-то вразумительное сказать о нем. . Версии: C. scabriusculus ...

25.09.2007 23:14 RippeR

Да, я еще съездил в Крым, Карпаты, Кавказ и Сибирь..Эх, будем надеятся на более ...

About catalogs (2) Shofffer

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 ...

04.09.2007 15:01 Shofffer

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 ...

Holometabola versus Hemimetabola (12) Chromocenter

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 ...

23.08.2007 19:19 Tentator

Without a doubt, Hemimetabola is a polyphyletic taxon, but after Martynov and Rasnitsyn, it is usually no longer considered: Polyneoptera and ...

Satyridae=Satyrinae? (4) AntSkr

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?

05.06.2007 19:15 Ilia Ustiantcev

Indeed, according to our classification, Lybethiadae (snouts) and Ridionidae (or Erycinidae???) - different families. But I don't know why.

Geotrupes sp (9) Mikhail F. Bagaturov

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 ...

25.05.2007 16:33 Mikhail F. Bagaturov

Thank you dorgoy! Hello to Gusakov from me

Identifications based on photos - who needs them and why? (50) Salix

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 ...

25.04.2007 16:11 guest: Brandashmyg

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 ...

Speices of the wasps. How to distinguish? (39) Chromocenter

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.

18.04.2007 20:11 алекс 2611

This view that I drew is only found around the Tien Shan MountainsGuilty, wrong....

Agrotis faticida Hübn. (3) Aleksandr Ermakov

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 ...

06.04.2007 11:37 Aleksandr Ermakov

Exactly, A. fatidica (Hübner, 1824). V. N. Olschwang has already clarified the situation to me:banal ochepyatka. It was necessary to immediately ...

Questions of identification of the Carabidae (25) Aleksey Adamov

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 ...

23.02.2007 18:39 stierlyz

I scanned the page from the Trigger for this group, send the soap to the PM - I will try to send it.

Geometrids, genus Eupithecia (8) Kristy

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 ...

10.02.2007 3:07 AGG

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 ...

Endophallus (1) KDG

Internal sacs of some barbelsChlorophorus figuratusAraomia moschataBatus hirticornis Pictures:figuratus.jpg — (52.86к) aromia.jpg — (95.12к) batus.jpg — (119.92к)

08.02.2007 14:08 KDG

Internal sacs of some barbelsChlorophorus figuratusAraomia moschataBatus hirticornis Pictures:figuratus.jpg — (52.86к) aromia.jpg — (95.12к) ...

Number of antennal segments in Hymenoptera (8) sealor

Посчитал количество усиков у самца предположительно V. vulgaris, рабочей V. germanica, к сожалению самца точно германики нету, потом посчитал у ...

27.10.2006 16:51 Охотник за осами

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 ...

Papilio machaon and Papilio hospiton. What is the difference? (7) taler

Приветствую вас,коллеги!!!После долгого отсутствия я вновь с вами.И нужна помощь....В чем разница между Papilio Machaon и Papilio Hospiton ????

22.10.2006 15:36 RippeR

Если верить сайту, представленному Bad Den'ом, то сразу видно по нижнему красному ...

Anaphaeis mesentina (5) ronital

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?

02.10.2006 5:29 Shofffer

 А почему называются по-разному?Значит так. Во-первых, это синонимы.Во-вторых, ...

Aphid (10) Ju-lia

Was it given a name? If so, which one, and if not, why?

22.09.2006 5:44 plantago

I'd like to see the works myself.... http://www.paleo.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?p=20495#20495

Pericallia matronula what does a caterpillar look like? (3) Dorcadion

People! maybe someone has a photo of the caterpillar Pericallia matronula? Please!

20.08.2006 22:19 guest: Dorcadion

Thank you very much!

Taxonomy of Gonepteryx (1) Ekos

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 ...

02.08.2006 3:57 Ekos

How does anyone relate to the intraspecific taxonomy of the lemongrass Gonepteryx rhamni in Russia? Just different authors distinguish in different ...

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