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Epermenia stolidota

Kamla lum hija speċi sbieħ mill-Muntanji Rocky barra ta 'Denver, Epermenia stolidota (Epermeniidae). Dan huwa attwalment kampjun akbar milli tidher, dwar 20mm minn wingtip li wingtip. Dawk imqajma, mudlama, trofof ta 'skali fuq il-tarf ta' wara tal-forewing huwa karattru kbir għal din il-familja, kif ukoll lanżit il iebes fuq il-qasba tas-sieq hind (wkoll kemmxejn viżibbli hawn). Hemm 11 speċi 2 genera fl-Istati Uniti, u x'aktarx ftit aktar biex jiġu skoperti. Fellow curatorial assistent David Bettman keyed din l-ispeċi out tintuża r-reviżjoni ta 'l-ispeċi Nearctic: PDF hawn.

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Plebejus acmon pair

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Stig Mella cr.

Din il-ġimgħa jien qsim ċkejkna, scruffy, u semi-kompetenti mifruxa Nepticulidae fil-ġeneru Stig Mella mill-istess nassa dawl ta Prescott Arizona bħala l-aħħar ftit Moths it-tnejn. I normalment ma taqsmu ritratt ta 'kamla li ma jkunx fl-aħjar kondizzjoni, imma jien jużaw dan bħala eżempju ta 'teknika. Mhux biss din kamla 4mm miġbuda mill-qiegħ ta 'nasba tad-dawl, imma kien qasam ippinjat u mnixxef għal aktar minn sena u nofs. Stajt dejjem smajt li jista kważi jkun impossibbli li tittratta l-iżgħar tal-intrapriżi żgħar; u għall-parti l-aktar I ma jkunux. I użati biex jaħsbu li għandek bżonn biex jaqbdu magħhom off ta 'folja dawl ħajjin f'kunjett u euthanize mumenti qabel tixrid, kollha filwaqt li qatt ma, qatt ħallihom jinxfu l-ftit tiniest qabel. Imma kif jirriżulta, inti tista 'tikseb bogħod ma' kampjun deċenti billi jiġu rilassati 24 sigħat u tixrid rasu 'l isfel. Tal-kors jekk għandek kampjun perfettament frisk li evitati l-blender ta 'barmil-nassa ikun jagħmel għal kampjun ferm superjuri. Aħjar għadhom, li ġbidt l-minjiera weraq u rabbew l-kamla yourself. Ħafna minn dawn Nepticulidae huma speċifiċi-ospitanti u wisq iktar divers minn għandna tawhom kreditu. I widnejna jista 'jkun hemm mill-inqas 100 speċijiet ġodda tistenna iskoperta fl-Istati Uniti biss.

Meta tassonomija Jagħmel Speċi Inqas f'Periklu

L-istorja ta 'ħafna friefet San Francisco huma magħrufa sew u deprimenti. Iż-żona ġiet kellha effett qawwi minn żvilupp uman għal aktar minn żewġ sekli u hija d-dar infami għall-ewwel eżempju magħruf ta 'farfett Amerikana estinti, l- Blue Xerces. Filwaqt friefet oħra huma mdendlin fuq, jew jkollna għajnuna li tistrieħ fuq bħall- Missjoni Blue, Xi bħall-Bajja Checkerspot komplew jonqsu minkejja l-isforzi Valiant għall riintroduzzjoni. Illum, l-kolonja magħruf tal-Bajja Checkerspot huwa fi ħdan Santa Clara County fuq sit imsejħa Ridge Coyote. It was twenty one years of intensive study of the checkerspot in the 1960’s and 70’s by the famous biologist Paul Ehrlich li pprovda l-impetu għall-elenkar federali 1987. Mill- 1998 l-kolonji huwa studjat jkollu peress marret estinti. Hawnhekk hija silta minn 1980 karta fil-Ġurnal ta 'l-Lepidopterists’ Soċjetà “Żewġ California Checkerspot Butterfly Speċi, Wieħed New, Waħda fuq il-ponta ta 'estinzjoni” (.pdf).

“Il-Bajja Checkerspot huwa diġà farfett fil-periklu. Din is-sitwazzjoni diqa hija aktar ta 'dwejjaq minħabba popolazzjonijiet tagħha huma fost l-aħjar magħruf – ekoloġikament u ġenetikament – ta 'kwalunkwe invertebrata. Aħna qed jippruvaw jiksbu protezzjoni uffiċjali għall-E. u. bayensis u qed tfassal xi esperimenti li recolonize oqsma ta 'f'abitat adatt li issa huma vakanti.”

Bay Checkerspot Bill Bouton

Isforzi kollha biex jirrilokaw dan farfett fallew, u l-futur ta 'dan l-annimal ma jkunx tħares bright.

U hekk x'inhi eżattament dan l-isem kreaturi? Fl 1937 Robert F. Sternitzky deskritti liema hu maħsub li tkun injorat San Francisco butterfly “Euphydryas editha var. bayensis“. Dawk id-deskrizzjonijiet bikrija ta 'varjazzjonijiet u tiġrijiet huma madwar ekwivalenti għal sottospeċi lum – u għalhekk l-farfett baqgħet bayensis għal deċennji u saret Mascot għall-konservazzjoni. Iżda fejn kien l-ewwel ħafna Euphydras editha minn u kif għamlet il-San Francisco bayensis differenti? Sfortunatament id-deskrizzjoni oriġinali hija vaga u l-lokalità ġbir hija sempliċement elenkat bħala “California”, kif kien il-vizzju sfortunati ta ' Boisduval li ddeskriva l-butterfly 1852. Imma kull tama ma tintilifx minħabba li l-Lepidopterist Franċiż famuż kien li kampjuni mibgħuta lilu mill-Lepidopterist California kmieni, Pierre Joseph Michel Lorquin. An ħerqana deheb Prospettur u butterfly kollettur, Lorquin vjaġġata California minn 1849 li 1858 u għal darb'oħra fil- 1869. Kull farfett li kienet mibgħuta lura lil Franza kienet speċi ġdida u sussegwentement deskritta minn Boisduval – li naturalment imsemmi waħda ta 'friefet isbaħ California wara Lorquin.

Ikteb Emmel, Emmel u MATTOON fl 1994 li kienu bil-miktub l-Sistematika ta 'Tramuntana Friefet Amerikana Punent. Fil-proċess ta 'tindif l-mess ta' dawn l-ispeċi tal-Punent kmieni kellhom jaħtru Lectotype għal U. editha editha peress Boisduval qatt ffissat Holotype fl 1852. Essenzjalment huwa msemmi speċi ġodda mingħajr ma jindika l-istandard tassonomika għall-grupp, jagħmlu x-xogħol futur ambigwa għall taxonomists. B'xorti tajba l-vjaġġi ta 'Lorquin segwew b'mod ġenerali ġew dokumentati u nistgħu jiġi aċċertat li huwa jkun f'San Francisco madwar 1849. Tqabbil tal-kampjuni oriġinali għall-Bajja Checkerspot magħmula għal każ kbira li kien dan farfett li ntbagħtet lil Franza fis-seklu 19. Ir-riżultat ta 'din is-sejba għalhekk tqiegħed il-Bajja Checkerspot Euphydryas editha bayensis fis synonymy bl-isem anzjani Euphydryas editha editha. L-isem bayensis effettivament dissappeared għaliex kien deskrizzjoni mill-ġdid ta 'farfett li kien diġà magħruf.

Euphydryas e. editha kif jirriżulta ġie magħruf minn kostali California mir-reġjun bajja sa San Luis Obispo – u hekk voila, il-firxa tal-Bajja Checkerspot biss sploda. Iżda naturalment l-istorja ma tkunx dik sempliċi u l-farfett ma jkunx sar magically sikur ma 'bidla fl-isem. Gruppi ta 'konservazzjoni u ekoloġista kicked u screamed u rrifjuta li jaċċetta l-bidla, anke l- Soċjetà Xerces ma qabża abbord mal-kunsens tal taxonomists barra mill dak I jista 'jassumi biss huwa biża' l-apparenza li farfett tagħhom ma tibqax fil-periklu.

I ser jenfasizzaw li dan ma jfissirx li l-popolazzjonijiet fil-bajja ta m'għadhomx mhedda – għad hemm bżonn ta 'protezzjoni ta' dawn il-popolazzjonijiet bijoloġikament sinifikanti kif dawn qed jonqsu b'mod sinifikanti. Ħabitats tar-reġjun kollu matul qed jiffaċċjaw theddid kontinwu u distruttiva (pdf). Kollox ma 'kollox il-bidla fl-isem huwa trivjali, aħna issa tista 'sejħa Checkerspot l Edith tal-Bajja Checkerspot, u xorta ġlieda biex jipproteġu din farfett. Jien ċert minn dak li jkun meħtieġ biex temenda r-reġistru federali, u jekk huwa xejn possibbli li jespandu protezzjoni ta 'annimal bħal dan mingħajr ma terġa' Khmer-att speċi fil-periklu. Allura forsi I jistgħu jifhmu n-nuqqas li jħaddnu l-bidla fl-isem peress li minn barra jidher qisu bug tagħhom ma tibqax fil-periklu. Min-naħa l-oħra, dan jista iġibu għall-attenzjoni popolazzjonijiet ta 'farfett li ġew injorati għal deċennji.

 

Ħafna grazzi għall John Pelham għall-għoti miegħi fuq din ras tassonomiku.

 

 

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Kif dwar Gelechiidae ieħor mhux identifikat mill-istess post bħall-kampjun preċedenti (No. Prescott Arizona). Jien tieħu stab fil dan kamla jkunu fil-ġeneru Chionodes – u huwa superfiċjalment simili għall-ispeċi C. continuella. Thankfully hemm monografu dan il-grupp (Moths 'l-Amerika tat-Tramuntana tal-Messiku, faxxiklu 7.6) u I se jkunu jistgħu dissect u nisperaw jaslu għal identifikazzjoni aħjar. Il-ġenitali ta 'moths huma wonderfully strutturi li jistgħu jipprovdu minjiera ta' karattri wżati għall-identifikazzjoni sclerotized. I ser ikollhom biex tkun żgur li jaqsmu immaġini ta 'dak il-ġenitali look like malajr!

 

Chionodes spp.?

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Gelechiidae small

 

Dan kamla huwa eżempju tajjeb ta 'dak lott ta' friefet tiegħi huma fil-mument – mhux identifikati! Dan huwa ċertament Gelechiidae, tista 'tara l palps upturned kbar fuq il-faċċata tar-ras, u projezzjoni forma finger fuq il-ponot tas-hindwings. Just about one of the easiest families of microleps to identify. And from a general gestalt perhaps this is in the Gnorimoschemini? If someone recognizes this little guy please let me know, otherwise I’ll attack the literature to try and track down the name. This beautiful moth is from the mountains outside of Prescott, AZ – Lulju 2010. Rather enjoyably, there are so many microlepidoptera that are not easily identified.

Ipproteġi Riċerka fil-Mużew Qasam tal-Istorja Naturali

You may have already heard the shocking news regarding the impending changes at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Fil-qosor, il-mużew huwa fil-kriżi finanzjarja u bidliet enormi huma ser jiġu implimentati mill-president il-ġdid, Richard Lariviere. Huwa probabbli li sa nofs l-istaff ta 'riċerka (including tenured curators) will be laid off and all research departments will be dissolved intoscience and education”. Money will be spent modernizing the exhibits, all while gutting the scientific core of the museum.

Please take a moment to sign this petition and voice your concern: Protect Research at the Field Museum

Qasam Mużew tal-Istorja Naturali

Il Moth Poodle u l-problema ta 'Cryptozoology

Ftit xhur ilu ħafna minnkom probabilment stumbled madwar dan même – the famous Poodle Moth! U fil-fatt għall-parti l-kbira l rappurtaġġ kien nofs deċenti. Iva, huwa reali. Iva, huwa kamla. Iva, huwa probabbilment l-ispeċi fil-Lasiocampidae (possibly the genus Artace) kif enfasizzat b'mod korrett mill Dr. John Rawlins.

Poodle moth (Artace sp, perhaps A. cribaria), Venezwela

I expected this to be all well and good, hey there are tons of cute moths out there and it’s about time someone noticed! I didn’t bother to read the article until a colleague forwarded it to me from theCosmic Log on nbcnews.com“. What I found was horrifying hilarious. NBC for some reason decided to cite a cryptozoologist who was one of the first people to apparently blog about this moth and attempt to identify it (incorrectly, but not a bad effort for a non-entomologist). And then stories like this one in the Christian Post started popping up everywhere: Venezuelan Poodle Moth Confuses Scientists. For some reason they all love using lines likemystifying researchers”, jew “baffling scientists”. I’m always amused by the catch words used in stories like thisand don’t really understand why they are so popular. I guess every time a scientist saysboy this is interestingit gets misinterpreted as them being baffled; which makes me think the reporter might enjoy knocking science off of its imaginary ivory tower when they get to sayhey look these stupid scientists don’t even know the answer”. And while we often don’t know the answer (it’s sort of our job to discover those answers), it doesn’t mean we’re stumped. Especially in this case, it’s just a fluffy moth.

No real harm, but that whole cryptozoology thing gets me riled up. I think its unfortunate that a cryptozoologist nabbed so much publicity and was talked about with a fair amount of credibility.

Cryptozoology is mhux a science, nor will it ever be. When cryptozoology is conducted as a science it’s called biology.

Yes there are nuts out there who believe they are conducting real science, following tall tales in circles and building stacks of anecdotalevidencethat never seem to result in truths. There are real differences between what a scientist and a pseudoscientist does. Say a scientist hears reports of an odd animal living in the deep junglesthey embark on an expedition (after begging for funding) to do the hard work of piecing together local stories and trekking the jungles or diving the oceans to find the specimens. Then they bring those specimens home, dissect every detail, and publish the results in a peer reviewed journal. If no specimens were found then that scientist goes home empty handed and rethinks the possibility of this new mythical creature. Maybe more funding would give them more time in the field… (always the answer, dritt?) But the story ends there, without evidence the animal doesn’t exist. This is where cryptozoology departs from real sciencethey embrace anecdotal tales as fact and never admit defeat. Nessy exists because people tara him. The explanation can’t possibly be any large array of more plausible optionsbecause the world a cryptozoologist lives in is mythical and fundamentally not real.

OK enough ranting, let’s just hope for more adorable moths hitting the news cycle!

Merħba għall-post Ġdid!

Merħba lill-dar il-ġdida ta 'l-Moth Xettiċi! Naf aġġornament blogrolls mhux kollha li gost, imma nirringrazzjak għall teħel miegħi. U peress li it-tnejn – hawnhekk hija I Automeris (Saturniidae) minn Illinois tan-Nofsinhar, Mejju 2012.

 

Cheers u Happy New Year!

I Automeris

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Kamla lum huwa mikro istordament u kreatura ieħor minn back yard Garġa Bartell fil-Rockies. To the best of my knowledge it’s a species of Mompha (Coleophoridae), probably claudiella,imma jien ma jkollhom ID pożittiv fuq dan bug għadu. Once I start digging through the micros from this site there are sure to be surprises!
Mompha sp.