New taxa for Insecta on iNats
Ladies and gentlemen,
@tomaaasv @karineavetisyan @artem @cyathus @drilvonen @hyacinthus @axelgosseries @lucaboscain @theo_fiedler @heinerziegler @ahospers @ohanjanyan
You are the top observers of the insects in Armenia, thus I would like to make you know...
Over the last several days I've worked with iNats curators to include a number of taxa, which are listed in the Red Book of Armenia, but were missing in the list of iNats known species.
This resulted in adding the following list of species:
| Order | Latin name |
| Coleoptera | Chilotomus alexandri |
| Coleoptera | Tanyproctus araxidis |
| Coleoptera | Sphenoptera geghardica |
| Coleoptera | Dorcadion gorbunovi |
| Coleoptera | Trechus infuscatus |
| Coleoptera | Baris mirifica |
| Coleoptera | Deltomerus khnzoriani |
| Coleoptera | Sphenoptera khnzoriani |
| Coleoptera | Dorcadion kasikoporanum |
| Coleoptera | Cortodera kaphanica |
| Coleoptera | Anthaxia breviformis |
| Coleoptera | Dorcadion semilucens |
| Coleoptera | Agapanthia korostelevi |
| Coleoptera | Glaphyrus caucasicus |
| Coleoptera | Glaphyrus calvaster |
| Coleoptera | Dorcadion cineriferum |
| Coleoptera | Acmaeoderella pellitula |
| Coleoptera | Duvalius yatsenkokhmelevskyi |
| Coleoptera | Cteniopus persimilis |
| Coleoptera | Anisoplia reitteriana |
| Coleoptera | Adoretus rubenyani |
| Coleoptera | Duvalius stepanavanensis |
| Coleoptera | Tanyproctus vedicus |
| Coleoptera | Poecilus festivus |
| Coleoptera | Craspedostethus permodicus |
| Coleoptera | Philomessor kalashiani |
| Hymenoptera | Bombus alagesianus |
| Hymenoptera | Myrmica ravasinii |
| Orthoptera | Bradyporus dilatatus |
| Orthoptera | Scotodrymadusa satunini |
Being newly added species, they have no observations on iNats. If you happen to have observations, which can be related to those, you are welcome to add such.
That said, there are still several species in progress (e.g. Machimus erevanensis).
There is also a list of species, which is absent in GBIF taxa data base, which makes it very difficult to argue that they are accepted by worldwide scientific community. E.g. Cardiophorus araxicola, Lithurge fuscipenne, etc. Those are unlikely to be added to iNats any time soon.
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Thanks for this! I'll keep doing my best to do more observations when I go there next year
Excellent job, thank you!
if I get there next year, I'll definitely add something again, thanks.
Important work, thank you!
Thank you for noticing! I have been working hard, trying to encourage specialists to help we with the identification of my armenian observations.
Another one might be Stictoleptura rufa ssp. realis
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1483636
I have the rare ones categorised in order of their rarity, but will not be able to acess my laptop till this weekend. Ill gladly share the results with you this weekend!
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