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Re: What insect is this?

by livingplanet3 » Wed Nov 06, 2024 10:15 pm

rupareliaa wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 8:49 pm Thanks! Are they harmful and do they bite? How do I get rid of them?

Do they live in nests? We recently had a pigeon lay eggs outside our window. Maybe that's what they came from?
Dermestid beetles aren't harmful, and do not bite. They can become a nuisance however, if they become numerous.

Some species are indeed attracted to the nests of birds and mammals, where they scavenge for organic debris. As for how to get rid of them, the simplest solution would be to look around for the food source that they are coming from. If the source is indoors, it's most likely a stored, dried food such as a container of cereal, pasta, grain, or flour.

https://extension.usu.edu/planthealth/r ... dermestids

https://agsci.colostate.edu/agbio/ipm-p ... d-beetles/
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Re: What insect is this?

by rupareliaa » Wed Nov 06, 2024 8:49 pm

livingplanet3 wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 8:45 pm
rupareliaa wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 8:41 pm That's fair. I also have a video with a bit more clarity if that helps:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/AxxAqGHxPFKGgc95A
This is most likely a beetle, and probably species of dermestid -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermestidae

Thanks! Are they harmful and do they bite? How do I get rid of them?

Do they live in nests? We recently had a pigeon lay eggs outside our window. Maybe that's what they came from?
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Re: What insect is this?

by livingplanet3 » Wed Nov 06, 2024 8:45 pm

rupareliaa wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 8:41 pm That's fair. I also have a video with a bit more clarity if that helps:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/AxxAqGHxPFKGgc95A
This is most likely a beetle, and probably species of dermestid -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermestidae
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Re: What insect is this?

by livingplanet3 » Wed Nov 06, 2024 8:42 pm

Possibly a hemipteran (true bug) -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiptera

or perhaps a beetle. It doesn't appear to be a bed bug, however -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_bug
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Re: What insect is this?

by rupareliaa » Wed Nov 06, 2024 8:41 pm

kevinkk wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 8:34 pm identification is unlikely. You have a blurry something. Possibly a small "true" bug, or an immature cockroach. Anyone that can identify this insect is wasting their talents here. :)
That's fair. I also have a video with a bit more clarity if that helps:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/AxxAqGHxPFKGgc95A
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Re: What insect is this?

by kevinkk » Wed Nov 06, 2024 8:34 pm

identification is unlikely. You have a blurry something. Possibly a small "true" bug, or an immature cockroach. Anyone that can identify this insect is wasting their talents here. :)
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What insect is this?

by rupareliaa » Wed Nov 06, 2024 7:40 pm

Found a few of these around cashew box and on the bed. What are these?
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Re: some assembly required

by kevinkk » Wed Nov 06, 2024 6:20 pm

It is a great job. Clearly more patience than I have. Skippers are safe from me in the field :).
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Re: some assembly required

by Trehopr1 » Wed Nov 06, 2024 5:08 pm

Wow, that is indeed a VERY admirable effort on such a fine specimen.

Well worthy of its status as being a large female from a country not represented in your collection.

My "hats off to you" truly John for such a fine job ! 👏🎉☺️
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by Jshuey » Wed Nov 06, 2024 4:03 pm

Too often, big skippers rot in the tropics if they are not property preserved. They simply fall into pieces after you relax them, and I almost always throw them away. But every now and then, an important bug (at least for me) comes in, and I try and piece them back together. Here is an example of one - a female Jemadia gnetus from Columbia. It would be the only specimen I have from Columbia, but also just the second female in the collection. So I re-assembled the bug as best I could.

First, I gently pinned it and spread the forewings. These were almost falling off, so I used BioQuip insect adhesive to secure them to the thorax (and the thorax to the pin as well). If you look closely at the left-hand photos, you will see that I lost the very basal FW blue band reflectance next to the thorax because of this glue - but acceptable. I used white glue to attach the head to the thorax, and then back to the BioQuip adhesive to attach the antennae. I flattened out the hindwings and let everything dry for a couple of weeks.

Then I carefully slid the hindwings into place, and again used the adhesive to secure them. After a couple of days, I moved her to her new habitat in the collection. You can see that she is noticeably larger than my only other female (just above and to the right). But she is also noticeably paler blue and she has much more expansive hyaline areas on the forewings. I think that she is happy in her new home!

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Topic: Papilio bjorkae (Pavulaan, 2024) Tiger Swallowtail | Author: Chuck | Replies: 59 | Views: 4865
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Re: Papilio bjorkae (Pavulaan, 2024) Tiger Swallowtail

by bobw » Wed Nov 06, 2024 3:42 pm

Yes, of course there is nothing in The Code about label colours, but the convention is red for holotypes, dark blue for lectotypes, pale blue for syntypes and yellow for paratypes and paralectotypes; if people start using blue for paratypes it will only cause confusion. I don't have a problem with people using red for all types as long as the type category is clearly stated, this has been done many times, and how many different coloured sheets of paper do people want lying around?
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Re: Papilio bjorkae (Pavulaan, 2024) Tiger Swallowtail

by adamcotton » Wed Nov 06, 2024 1:54 pm

Of course the colour of labels is by convention, not even recommended under the ICZN Code, and most people use red labels for paratypes despite that technically being the colour for holotype labels. I suppose the reason is that red stands out more clearly than yellow.

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Re: Papilio bjorkae (Pavulaan, 2024) Tiger Swallowtail

by bobw » Wed Nov 06, 2024 11:28 am

Why use a blue label for the paratype (allotype in this case)? Paratype labels are supposed to be yellow, blue labels are for syntypes. This could make things very confused!
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Re: Papilio bjorkae (Pavulaan, 2024) Tiger Swallowtail

by adamcotton » Wed Nov 06, 2024 11:14 am

The name bjorkae Pavulaan, 2024 finally became a validly published available name according to the ICZN Code on 2 November 2024 when Pavulaan published an addendum (available here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14031815) which just about satisfied article 10.1 (all Code provisions complied with).

The name was unavailable from the original paper because it did not comply with article 16.4.2 (no stated location of the holotype), and although the text technically does not satisfy article 16.1
Every new name published after 1999, including new replacement names (nomina nova), must be explicitly indicated as intentionally new.
the addendum subject mentions the word 'new', which can be interpreted as sufficient to satisfy this requirement.

An example of a failed attempt to satisfy these articles is all but one of the new names published in Ek-Amnuay, P. [2007]. Butterflies of Thailand. In this publication Ek-Amnuay did not even designate holotypes for his new taxa; except for one Hesperiid, which had already previously been described and thus is a junior synonym. In the second edition, published in 2012, he tried to solve the problem by designating holotypes alongside the descriptions but did not state the names were new from 2012, thus not complying with article 16.1. There were no statements of 'ssp. nov.' or similar, and instead dated the names from the first edition.

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Re: Euphaedra sp. (I.D.) requested

by Trehopr1 » Tue Nov 05, 2024 7:58 pm

Sorry for the delay Cabintom in getting those
underside pictures. Finally, made time to take them !

A.
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B.
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C.
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Note: this is all that is present on the underside
of the label. Topside: Adam deciphered as Thursday
3.May.2007

D.
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Note: this specimen comes from Abidjan, Ivory Coast
as deciphered by Adam.

I very much appreciate anything that you can do with
these Cabintom. Many thanks to Adam for his "deciphering"
skills of the handwritten (limited) data on each of these !
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Re: large insect found in florida

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Re: large insect found in florida

by kevinkk » Tue Nov 05, 2024 4:47 pm

An Arachnid actually. Looks like a Vinagaroon, aka Whip Scorpion. Harmless to humans, physically at least.
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Re: WSJ Article re African Leps

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Some other discussions on this ABRI collection here : https://www.facebook.com/groups/5287309 ... 647974951/
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Re: Euphaedra sp. (I.D.) requested

by bobw » Mon Nov 04, 2024 3:47 pm

adamcotton wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2024 3:43 pm One way to take good ventral photos is to use a blob of children's 'plasticine' clay which will hold the pin by its head.

Of course the blob must be secured to the background, as I suspect that it will not stick to foam.

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I use Blu tack.