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Palilio cresphontes (Giant Swallowtail) vs. Papilio thoas (Thoas Swallowtail)
The Cladistics of Orbiculariae and the Monophyletic Origin of the Orb-Web
The search for Pytho strictus, the lost beetle of Mt. Washington
DRAFT: Hymenoptera mimicry by Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, & Araneae
Setting the record straight on the Class Arachnida
The most misunderstood spiders

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 28 March, 2008 - 12:39pm
Last updated 17 September, 2009 - 6:55pm

Updated

I think this is all up-to-date again...

… Charley Eiseman, 17 September, 2009 - 4:34pm

Balabans Ventral View of Spiders?

Do you have the Ventral images of some Araneidae seen here? I use that one all the time and it's starting to get buried.

… Lynette Schimming, 17 September, 2009 - 6:36pm

Taxon-specific

I've generally been leaving off taxon-specific articles and making links to them on the appropriate guide page (as was done with Sam's leafhopper page, for instance). I just added a link to that one on the Araneidae page... feel free to move it somewhere more obvious/convenient, and let me know if you still think it would be useful to add here.

[Edit: well, I guess I have plenty of taxon-specific articles on here. I just added that one. But we should remember to also add links to taxon-specific articles on guide pages.]

… Charley Eiseman, 17 September, 2009 - 6:52pm

some suggestions...

Under Quick ID Guides, consider including:
Giant Silkworm and Royal Moths
Moths That Can Be Confused
Brown/Gray Moths With Striking Hind Wings

… Roar, 19 July, 2009 - 9:06pm

Added

I put a link to the first one on the Saturniidae guide page instead of putting it here.

… Charley Eiseman, 30 July, 2009 - 8:03pm

moving

to the front again...

… Lynette Schimming, 19 July, 2009 - 10:29am

Let us move this to the front

Also, how about including Lynette's latest article? a very useful one.

… Beatriz Moisset, 4 April, 2009 - 6:59pm

Added

that one, along with a few others... let me know if I'm missing anything else.

… Charley Eiseman, 4 April, 2009 - 7:39pm

Updated

I think this summary is up to date now, and I'm just making this comment to move it up in the ranks a bit.

… Charley Eiseman, 8 October, 2008 - 12:02am

Here is one for you to look at

Don't know if you want it. It has to do with cropping and resizing images for BG. http://bugguide.net/node/view/170176

… John R. Maxwell, 30 March, 2008 - 5:03pm

Thanks

That definitely belongs in the "BugGuide Basics."

… Charley Eiseman, 30 March, 2008 - 7:41pm

Potential addition to Other category?

What about posting Threatened and Endangered species on BugGuide? The US Fish & Wildlife website has a list of threatened and endangered insects.

http://ecos.fws.gov/tess_public/StartTESS.do

This is the list of insects as of 3/29/2008:

Inverted Common Name Scientific Name

Beetle, American burying -- Nicrophorus americanus
Beetle, Coffin Cave mold-- Batrisodes texanus
Beetle, Comal Springs dryopid-- Stygoparnus comalensis
Beetle, Comal Springs riffle-- Heterelmis comalensis
Beetle, delta green ground-- Elaphrus viridis
Beetle, Helotes mold-- Batrisodes venyivi
Beetle, Hungerford's crawling water-- Brychius hungerfordi
Beetle, Kretschmarr Cave mold-- Texamaurops reddelli
Beetle, Mount Hermon June-- Polyphylla barbata
Beetle, Tooth Cave ground-- Rhadine persephone
Beetle, valley elderberry longhorn--Desmocerus californicus dimorphus
Butterfly, bay checkerspot-- Euphydryas editha bayensis
Butterfly, Behren's silverspot--Speyeria zerene behrensii
Butterfly, callippe silverspot--Speyeria callippe callippe
Butterfly, El Segundo blue-- Euphilotes battoides allyni
Butterfly, Fender's blue-- Icaricia icarioides fenderi
Butterfly, Karner blue-- Lycaeides melissa samuelis
Butterfly, Lange's metalmark-- Apodemia mormo langei
Butterfly, lotis blue-- Lycaeides argyrognomon lotis
Butterfly, mission blue-- Icaricia icarioides missionensis
Butterfly, Mitchell's satyr-- Neonympha mitchellii mitchellii
Butterfly, Myrtle's silverspot--Speyeria zerene myrtleae
Butterfly, Oregon silverspot-- Speyeria zerene hippolyta
Butterfly, Palos Verdes blue-- Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis
Butterfly, Quino checkerspot-- Euphydryas editha quino Butterfly, Saint Francis' satyr-- Neonympha mitchellii francisci
Butterfly, San Bruno elfin-- Callophrys mossii bayensis
Butterfly, Schaus swallowtail-- Heraclides aristodemus ponceanus
Butterfly, Smith's blue-- Euphilotes enoptes smithi
Butterfly, Uncompahgre fritillary-- Boloria acrocnema
Dragonfly, Hine's emerald-- Somatochlora hineana
Fly, Delhi Sands flower-loving--Rhaphiomidas terminatus abdominalis
Grasshopper, Zayante band-winged-- Trimerotropis infantilis
Ground beetle, [unnamed]-- Rhadine exilis
Ground beetle, [unnamed]-- Rhadine infernalis
Harvestman, Bee Creek Cave-- Texella reddelli
Harvestman, Bone Cave-- Texella reyesi
Harvestman, Cokendolpher Cave-- Texella cokendolpheri
Meshweaver, Braken Bat Cave-- Cicurina venii
Meshweaver, Gov't Canyon Bat Cave-- Cicurina vespera
Meshweaver, Madla's Cave-- Cicurina madla
Meshweaver, Robber Baron Cave-- Cicurina baronia
Moth, Blackburn's sphinx-- Manduca blackburni
Moth, Kern primrose sphinx-- Euproserpinus euterpe
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila aglaia
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila differens
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila hemipeza
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila heteroneura
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila montgomeryi
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila mulli
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila musaphila
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila neoclavisetae
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila obatai
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila ochrobasis
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila substenoptera
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila tarphytrichia
Pseudoscorpion, Tooth Cave-- Tartarocreagris texana
Skipper, Carson wandering-- Pseudocopaeodes eunus obscurus
Skipper, Laguna Mountains-- Pyrgus ruralis lagunae
Skipper, Pawnee montane-- Hesperia leonardus montana
Spider, Gov't Canyon Bat Cave-- Neoleptoneta microps
Spider, Kauai cave wolf-- Adelocosa anops
Spider, spruce-fir moss-- Microhexura montivaga
Spider, Tooth Cave-- Leptoneta myopica
Tiger beetle, northeastern beach-- Cicindela dorsalis dorsalis
Tiger beetle, Ohlone-- Cicindela ohlone
Tiger beetle, Puritan-- Cicindela puritana
Tiger beetle, Salt Creek-- Cicindela nevadica lincolniana

… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 29 March, 2008 - 10:59am

state endangered/threatened lists

If somebody was really motivated, an article could be put together with links to all the state lists of rare species, in addition to the federally listed ones. I don't know if all states even have such a list, but certainly many of them do.
...But a page with thumbnails of all the federally listed species would be neat. I wonder how many of them are on BugGuide?

… Charley Eiseman, 29 March, 2008 - 11:09am

This is great.

Good Idea..

… Lynette Schimming, 28 March, 2008 - 4:44pm

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