Beetle Thorax - BugGuide.Net

Move to ID request, perhaps?

Should these images be in ID request? Or I guess it is OK to leave them under thorax in the glossary, but they are not really the whole thorax--just the exoskeleton of of the thorax.

Perhaps we should have a discussion of this in the forums, but I don't think it is the intent of the glossary to be, in general, a repository for images. We have some in it right now--all illustrations of anatomy, and not photographs of particular organisms.

… Cotinis, 3 October, 2007 - 4:53am

Yes

I had it in ID Request until I got a couple of responses from Boris. I put it here for two reasons. 1). This is the definition of what a thorax is so I figured what better place to put a picture of one, even though it's just the exoskeleton and 2). I really didn't know where else to put it but I felt it adds value, at least for reference so I didn't want to frass it.

But, if you don't feel it should be here then I can move it to Carabidae. Just let me know.

… Sam Houston, 3 October, 2007 - 7:51am

No problem

No big deal--it is fine to leave under thorax as far as I am concerned. I just turned off the "representative" bit, because otherwise the images show up at the top guide page for the glossary, which is really not where anyone wants to see them--as a "contributor", you cannot change the representative bit, so it is not your fault at all.

Hmm. I may have a fix for that so it does not matter in the future

… Cotinis, 3 October, 2007 - 11:04am

prothorax

Should it be under prothorax? It is not the whole thorax.

… Jeff Gruber, 4 October, 2007 - 5:53pm

Yes, Carabidae sp.

Maybe Ptero*stichus?

… Boris Büche, 2 October, 2007 - 1:42am