Journal archives for December 2022

December 03, 2022

Documented diets of the Mecoptera (WIP)

Panorpidae:
Panorpa lugubris: In captivity: Odontoxiphidium apterum, Schistocerca americana, Panorpa lugubris

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December 16, 2022

Updated checklist of the extant Mecoptera (2023) (WIP)

APTEROPANORPIDAE:

BITTACIDAE:

BOREIDAE:

CHORISTIDAE:

EOMEROPIDAE:

Notiothauma (MacLachlan 1877)
-N. reedi (MacLachlan 1877)

MEROPEIDAE:

NANNOCHORISTIDAE:

PANORPIDAE:

PANORPODIDAE:

REFERENCES:

M'Lachlan, R. (1877), XXVII. On Notiothauma Reedi, a remarkable new genus and species of Neuroptera from Chili, pertaining to the family Panorpidæ. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 25: 427-430. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1877.tb02923.x

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December 19, 2022

Inaturalist observations of Mecoptera subjected to phoretic arthropods and parasites (WIP)

ACARI:

Female Panorpidae:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/144024836 (No. parasites visible: 2. Location: head right mid-leg femur.)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/11320512 (No. parasites visible: 1. Location: left foreleg tibia.)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/129470005 (No. parasites visible: ~6. Location: All over head, pronotum, and metanotum.)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/54152171 (No. parasites visible: 1. Location: Left side of metanotum.)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/54152171 (No. parasites visible: 3. Location: pronotum; left side of metanotum; ~left epimeron.)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/88264214 (No. parasites visible :2. Location: right side of metanotum behind wings; back of left side of pronotum.)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/56517994 (No. parasites visible: 1. Location: 1st tergum.)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68998098 (No. parasites visible: 5. Location: Right side of pronotum; left side of 1st tergum; right side of metanotum.)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/55753670 (No. parasites visible: 2. Location: ~left side of submentum; 1st tergum.)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/145651285 (No. parasites visible: 3. Location: Left side of pronotum, right side of mesonotum, left side of metanotum.)

Male Panorpidae:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/18281192 (No. parasites visible: 1. Location: ~mesopleuron.)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/121228844 (No. parasites visible: 1. Location: genital bulb; ~right basistyle.)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/60180526 (No. parasites visible: 4. Location: ~1st tergum.)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/37632421 (No. parasites visible: 1. Location: left side of metanotum; under wing.)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/15684388 (No. parasites visible: 1. Left side ~pronotum; between wings.)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/127283082 (No. parasites visible: 1. underneath base of left forewing.)

Mating Panorpidae:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/127988240 (No. parasites visible: 2. Location on male: ~pronotum. Location on female: left compound eye.)

KLEPTOPARASITIC DIPTERA:

Mating Panorpidae:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/66188650 (No. parasites visible ~16. Location: on nuptial gift and also leaf covered in hemolymph. Parasite: likely Phoridae.)

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December 30, 2022

Commonly misidentified and superficially "Homologous" taxa relating to Scorpionflies (Mecoptera)

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