April 23, 2023

Santa Fe Bucketlist

Some bucketlist Arthropods I will be searching for this June with notes on habitat (in varying levels of detail) :)

Raphidioptera (Agulla ssp.) - Generally forests (and scrubland?) between 3,000 and 7,000 feet, although sometimes higher. Larvae under bark or around groundlitter, rocks, and roots
Desert millipede - around ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Speleketor - caves 🙃(entrances?), palm leaves (so maybe Yucca?), light traps
Troglosphaeropsocus voylesi - caves 🙃, leaf litter? (I hope)
Loneura - Mountains (documented from Arizona, so probably not)
Asiopsocus sonorensis - near streams, evergreen oaks, yucca, grape, juniper (southwest?)
Lachesillidae ssp. - leafitter, grassland, dead grass, coniferous trees
Elipsocidae ssp. - coniferous trees, leaflitter, dead grass, tree trunks
Bittacus texanus - Found in Albuquerque at El Morro in September, phenology likely May-October with peaks in June and September, the latter seemingly being larger. Shade and moisture apparently not as essential as for other Bittacids. The Albuquerque sighting was in a sandy plain with Bouteloua and Salvia at ~7000ft.
Panorpa lugubris -Extremely unlikely and if locality is accurate then likely southern New Mexico

Posted on April 23, 2023 09:44 PM by mecopteron_bouillon mecopteron_bouillon | 1 comment | Leave a comment

March 16, 2023

Arthropod orders I haven't observed living in the wild (excluding Crustacea)

Last updated 3/26/23

HEXAPODA:

Entognatha:
Eosentomata(?)
Sinentomata
Neelipleona

Insecta:
Embioptera
Notoptera
Raphidioptera
Zoraptera

CHELICERATA:

Pycnogonida:
Pantopoda

Arachnida:
Amblypygi
Holothyrida
Opilioacarida
Palpigradi
Ricinulei
Scorpiones
Solifugae
Uropygi
Xiphosurida

MYRIAPODA:

Chilopoda:
Craterostigmomorpha

Diplopoda:
Chordeumatida
Glomerida
Glomeridesmida
Platydesmida
Siphoniulida
Siphonocryptida
Siphonophorida
Sphaerotheriida
Spirostreptida
Stemmiulida

Symphyla:
?

Pauropoda:
Hexamerocerata

Posted on March 16, 2023 09:14 PM by mecopteron_bouillon mecopteron_bouillon | 0 comments | Leave a comment

March 08, 2023

Checklist of the Protura of Florida (WIP)

Disclaimer: Not all species are necessarily added yet, still in the process of searching for species, as well as tracking down and sourcing descriptions. Also list of previous synonyms will eventually be supplied. Basically this checklist is relatively tentative.

ORDER ACERENTOMATA:

FAMILY ACERENTOMIDAE:
Acerentuloides bicolor (Ewing 1924)¹
Acerentuloides americanus (Nosek & Mace Kevan 1984b)¹
Gracilentulus floridanus (Ewing 1924)¹
Filientomon barberi (Ewing 1921)¹

ORDER EOSENTOMATA:

FAMILY EOSENTOMIDAE:
Eosentomon pallidum (Ewing 1921)¹
Eosentomon pusillum (Ewing 1940)¹
Eosentomon turneri (Bonet 1950)¹

REFERENCES:

  1. Szeptycki, A. (2007). Catalog of the world Protura. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia-Series B: Invertebrata, 50(1), 1-210.
Posted on March 08, 2023 07:26 AM by mecopteron_bouillon mecopteron_bouillon | 4 comments | Leave a comment

Interesting barklouse

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/109081364
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/150541311

May try to make a checklist and/or pictoral key to the known "Psocoptera" of Chile, not sure...

Posted on March 08, 2023 04:59 AM by mecopteron_bouillon mecopteron_bouillon | 0 comments | Leave a comment

March 04, 2023

February 22, 2023

February 07, 2023

Notoxinae (Personal notes) (WIP)

Disclaimer: All of the information here should not yet be taken as credible and is subject to change. As I am researching this taxon I am adapting and changing this document to reflect the current research and taxonomy. Sentences or phrases marked with question marks are aspects that I am specifically looking to confirm (or refute), but that does not mean that they are necessarily incorrect or that sentences and phrases that are not marked with question marks are the current consensus. The citations currently present are also subject to change, as there may be an eventual shift to paragraphs rather than simply note taking. Basically to summarize every part of this journal post is tentative.

General Info:
Common names: Monocerus beetles

Taxonomy:
[Family Anthicidae]
Subfamily - Notoxinae
-Genus Hypaspistes
-Genus Leptoprion
-Genus Mecynotarsus
-Genus Notoxus
-Genus Plesionotoxus
-Genus Pseudonotoxus
-Genus Squamanotoxus

References:

Chandler, Donald S. “A New Genus of Notoxini Based on the Elegans and Schenklingi Groups of Mecynotarsus (Coleoptera: Anthicidae).” Transactions of the American Entomological Society (1890-), vol. 127, no. 4, 2001, pp. 473–94. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25078761.

Posted on February 07, 2023 06:15 PM by mecopteron_bouillon mecopteron_bouillon | 0 comments | Leave a comment

Undescribed Dyscritobaeus(?) species

To-do upon specimen access.

  1. Identify specimen to genus, potentially confirming tentative ID.
  2. Write notes on their observation (jumping, associations, habitat, etc.)
  3. Research group (Taxonomy, Biology, Ecology, Morphology, etc.)
  4. Determine species if possible (send to specialist if needed)
  5. If undescribed measure everything and write description, along with aforementioned notes (both specimens, including uncollected one).
  6. Ping Scelionid specialists on Inat, potentially publish, and/or co-author with specialist (alongside other descriptions?)
Posted on February 07, 2023 04:30 PM by mecopteron_bouillon mecopteron_bouillon | 0 comments | Leave a comment

Dune ecosystem notes

Notes for what to add to this journal post:

Tenebrionid burrowing videos
Squamanotoxus elegans burrowing video
Jumping Psocid nymph (video?)
Beetle mites
Ladybug
Note on Cydara (sadly not photographed)
Jumping moth, wasps (including Trichogrammatid), Saldids, Ephydrids, and others.
Whatever I may have temporarily forgotten. With videos, potentially embed, but at least linked to youtube.

Posted on February 07, 2023 03:48 AM by mecopteron_bouillon mecopteron_bouillon | 0 comments | Leave a comment

January 11, 2023

Link for inaturalist's data surrounding Mecoptera

Posted on January 11, 2023 02:26 AM by mecopteron_bouillon mecopteron_bouillon | 0 comments | Leave a comment