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Oak Timberworm (Arrenodes minutus)
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Copyright © 2006
Cotinis
Oak Timberworm -
Arrenodes minutus
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Parkwood, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
May 29, 2006
Size: 12 mm
Found next to a lighted window, captured and posed. Length was 12 mm, not including the snout (proboscis), 15 mm with it.
Image updated 6/19/20.
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Contributed by
Cotinis
on 30 May, 2006 - 12:24pm
Last updated 28 June, 2024 - 10:24pm
well....
ITIS cites Poole & Gentili as their source for the spelling "minuta" - as a rule, thats a mistake, as they didn't follow the ICZN with respect to the gender endings - they only list the original spelling. For purposes of nomenclature, the ending [nodes] is pertinent - Latin: nodus, nodi (2nd declension masculine noun) "knot". See
article
and my comments at the bottom.
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Phillip Harpootlian
, 30 May, 2006 - 5:14pm
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Already back to minutes
I had second thoughts after making this comment and changing the guide page--returning to minut
es
, which agrees with the gender of the genus name, uhh, I think. (I took quite a bit of Latin, but it is rusty! All I seem to remember is how to decline
hic
: hic, haec, hoc, huius, huius, huius, hunc, hac, hoc, or something like that.)
Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina
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Cotinis
, 30 May, 2006 - 9:46pm
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Arrhenodes minutus
All of this discussion caused me to check the more recent and authoritative references (NOT ITIS [unless a specialist did the group], NOT Poole & Gentili [most groups not authoritatively checked]), and the correct name seems to be A. minutus (fide the chapter in American Beetles by Bob Anderson & Dave Kissinger; also referring to the treatment of the small families of the Curculionoidea by Don Bright). A. minutes seems to be a misspelling, though I had been ineffectually wondering if it was in the neuter gender of a genus with a Greek root.
If whomever is in charge of editing the names for this group could change the name to "minutus", future generations would be forever grateful.
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Donald S. Chandler
, 6 June, 2006 - 12:48pm
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minutus done in a minute
I changed the species name spelling, and there is a reference to this discussion in the
guide page
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Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina
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Cotinis
, 6 June, 2006 - 2:00pm
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Thanks
Nice to be efficient.
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Donald S. Chandler
, 6 June, 2006 - 7:35pm
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