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Suggestion: Please add the species page 'Green Lacewing - Chrysoperia carnea'

For this photo here:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/67496

We have this genus
but the spelling is "Chrysoperla" with an l not an i.

 
Confirmed ID
I have a confirmed species ID on this insect, but I think a page will have to be created.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/67459

 
Page made
- congratulations on adding a new species to the guide. And thanks for getting the expert identification first - that makes the page creation a lot simpler - I should have mentioned that above.

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(removed duplicate comment)

 
Monomorium & others
I'd like to suggest a species page for "Little Black Ants - Monomorium minimum" I have photos.

And also for...."Desert Subterranean Termite - Heterotermes aureus"

and
Cochineal (Dactylopius coccus)

Thanks

 
Post the pictures first
to the nearest appropriate place in the guide - e.g. family, genus. Indicate how you reached the ID - in as much detail as you can - and preferably in terms that distinguish it from others in the genus - book references, keys, expert opinion, reputable web references etc. are all valuable. Then list the image number here in forums. If it seems like a justifiable ID, an editor will make a page.

When it comes to creating new pages in the guide, I personally think it is better to err on the side of caution. Take your cochineal insects, for example. We already have a Dactylopius genus page here in the guide. To create a species page, since I am not an expert on scale insects, I would first look it up in my reference books and on the web. According to Arnett(1), D. coccus is a mexican insect not found in the US, but there are five Dactylopius species that do occur here. Insectimages.org has images of two species, D. cacti and D. confusus. To my untrained eye, they both look the same. According to Arnett, all species feed on Opuntia and Nopalea cactus. Having found no suggestion on how to tell them apart, I personally would leave a new image of Dactylopius at the genus level unless an expert had identified it to species.

 
bugs
Monomorium minimum (I will have more picts soon).
http://bugguide.net/node/view/68012/bgimage

Desert Subterranean Termite - Heterotermes aureus
http://bugguide.net/node/view/68018/bgimage

The Cochineal bug, I just put in the Genus page, since I can't decide which of the five species it is either.

The green lacewing I put in the 'Request ID' area
http://bugguide.net/node/view/68037/bgimage
Maybe someone can ID it.

And also
Please also add a page for
"Seven-spotted Ladybug - Coccinella septempunctata"
http://bugguide.net/node/view/67501

American Bird Grasshopper - Schistocerca americana
http://bugguide.net/node/view/67504

Cactus Bug - Cheilinidea vittiger
http://bugguide.net/node/view/67598

 
many of these pages already exist
but BugGuide stores names of genera on a separate node from species names. Therefore it is important to search for the genus or the species, but not the binomial. Then you can click on the Taxonomy tab to see what guide pages are available. Try searching on the genus you want and see. We checked both the ladybug and the grasshopper and the pages have been in the guide for two years or more. A little confusing, but once you get the node idea, everything works smoothly.

 
Thanks
I found them all, Thanks

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