Latest posts tagged with #TypeSpecimenTuesday on Bluesky
Do you remember #TypeSpecimenTuesday? Take a look at some of the type material from #INCSTEP! 👀
🪰 Serycomyia hispanica (paratype) bsky.app/profile/incs...
🐝 Colletes merceti (syntype) bsky.app/profile/incs...
🦋 Spialia rosae (holotype) bsky.app/profile/incs...
assassijn fly specimen on insect pin
assassijn fly specimen on insect pin
assassijn fly specimen on insect pin
assassijn fly specimen labels
#TypeSpecimenTuesday
holotype of assassin fly species Cophura daphne Pritchard, 1943 (USNMENT00995555, Asilidae) from Cuernavaca, Mexico in #USNMDiptera collection - more details here n2t.net/ark:/65665/3...
#asiloidflies
Lateral view photo of the male paratype specimen of 'Sericomyia hispanica'. Source: UCME Author: S. Grzechnik
Dorsal view photo of the same specimen. Source: UCME Author: S. Grzechnik
Photo of the specimen labels. Collecting label reads: "La Granja, Segovia (Hispania), Peris Torres". And the identification/type red label below reads: "Sericomyia hispanica V. PARATIPO, Dr. S-V Peris det. '62". Source: UCME Author: S. Grzechnik
Looks like Santa came early this Christmas and left us our last #TypeSpecimenTuesday of the year! 🎁
This time it is the paratype of the endemic #hoverfly 'Sericomyia hispanica' (Eristalinae) 🪰🌼 housed at the UCME!
📝 Description (in Spanish) bba.bioucm.es/cont/docs/pe...
soldier fly specimen on a pin
scientific specimen labels
soldier fly specimen on a pin
soldier fly specimen on a pin
#TypeSpecimenTuesday holotype of Adoxomyia regularis James, 1969 (USNMENT01789399) - soldier fly / Stratiomyiidae - from Baboquivari Mountains, Arizona, USA - in Smithsonian USNM - full resolution image files at n2t.net/ark:/65665/3... + www.si.edu/object/adoxo...
Lateral view photo of the male syntype specimen, along with a scale bar (5 mm) and its catalogue number (MNCN_Ent 408229). Source: Ent. Coll. MNCN-CSIC Author: P. Álvarez Fidalgo
Dorsal view photo of the same specimen, along with a scale bar (5 mm) and its catalogue number (MNCN_Ent 408229). Source: Ent. Coll. MNCN-CSIC Author: P. Álvarez Fidalgo
Photo of the specimen labels. Source: Ent. Coll. MNCN-CSIC Author: P. Álvarez Fidalgo
Another #TypeSpecimenTuesday! 🙌🏻
Today we have an infrasubespecific type! 🤔
This is a male #Xylocopa iris subsp. 'uclesiensis', which was used to describe a variety called 'gracilis'.
Complex, right? 😵💫
Hence, this would be called 'Xylocopa iris uclesiensis var. gracilis'... Try to say it quickly!
Lateral view photo of the male syntype specimen, along with a scale bar (2 mm) and its catalogue number (MNCN_Ent 314365). Source: Ent. Coll. MNCN-CSIC Author: P. Álvarez Fidalgo
Dorsal view photo of the same specimen, along with a scale bar (2 mm) and its catalogue number (MNCN_Ent 314365). Source: Ent. Coll. MNCN-CSIC Author: P. Álvarez Fidalgo
Photo of the specimen labels. Source: Ent. Coll. MNCN-CSIC Author: P. Álvarez Fidalgo
Here we are, in another #TypeSpecimenTuesday 🕵️
Today we meet one of the #syntypes of #Colletes merceti 🐝
This is an Iberian endemism described by J. Noskiewicz in 1936, using material from one of our partner institutions, the MNCN-CSIC! 🏛️
Dorsal view photo of the type specimen, along with a scale bar (10 mm) and its catalogue number (MNCN_Ent 174731). Source: Ent. Coll. MNCN-CSIC Author: P. Álvarez Fidalgo
Ventral view photo of the type specimen, along with a scale bar (10 mm) and its catalogue number (MNCN_Ent 174731). Source: Ent. Coll. MNCN-CSIC Author: P. Álvarez Fidalgo
Photo of the specimen labels. Source: Ent. Coll. MNCN-CSIC Author: P. Álvarez Fidalgo
Do you know what day it is today? It is #TypeSpecimenTuesday! 🥳
Behold the holotype of 'Spialia rosae' (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from the MNCN-CSIC #Entomology Collection! 🏛️
📝 Hernández-Roldán, Dapporto, Dinca, Vicente & Vila (2016)
doi.org/10.1111/mec....
a fly specimen on a pin from a museum collection
a fly specimen on a pin from a museum collection
a fly specimen on a pin from a museum collection
labels from a fly specimen on a pin from a museum collection
#TypeSpecimenTuesday holotype of Muscidae / house-fly species Angolia acuta Malloch, 1934 (now Angolina) at #USNMDiptera Smithsonian NMNH Entomology - full resolution files here www.si.edu/object/angol... + n2t.net/ark:/65665/3... #SmithsonianOpenAccess
