#taxonomy

PaulaToThePeople 😷 @PaulaToThePeople@climatejustice.social · Jul 30, 2026

As a neurodivergent person I'm interested in taxonomy but as a dyslexic person I find it inconvenient that many taxa have unreadable names that differ from other taxa with just one letter. papilionoidea (butterflies) papilionidae (swallowtails) In this case its even two differences, but still it doesn't feel very inclusive to people with learning disabilities (or probably to most people I guess). #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #dyslexia #taxonomy #butterflies #inclusion

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neville park @nev@flipping.rocks · Jul 25, 2026

Apropos of nothing 😇 , there is a species of recluse spider, _Loxosceles coheni_, named after legendary Canadian singer-songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen. From an Entomology Today article by one of the scientists (https://entomologytoday.org/2021/01/08/new-species-recluse-spider-named-for-leonard-cohen/) "I have been listening to Cohen’s music since a rather young age, especially more so during the recent years, which certainly helped with working during the cold, dark, and long winters of Finland, where I am pursuing my Ph.D. at the University of Turku. The phrase 'burning violin' that we used in the title of the article is a pun: First, it is a reference to Leonard Cohen’s famous song 'Dance Me to The End of Love', and, second, it refers to the violin-shaped marking on the cephalothorax of these spiders (hence the common name 'violin spiders') and the 'burning' nature of their venom, which in some cases can cause severe dermonecrosis, often leaving a permanent scar behind. I liken Cohen’s music to the venom of recluse spiders: It doesn’t affect everyone, but those who are affected by it carry a scar for the rest of their lives." Paper: "‘Burning Violin’: The Medically Important Spider Genus Loxosceles (Araneae: Sicariidae) in Iran, Turkmenistan, and Afghanistan, With Two New Species", _Journal of Medical Entomology_ (2021) https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaa257

#taxonomy #spiders #Araneae #Sicariidae #CanCon

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f_L @f_L@g0v.social · Jul 19, 2026

練了一個10k的基礎有氧，雖然氣溫還是有點高，至少跑起來也還有風。晚上河濱有好多剪斯類的阿胖蟲在草叢裡製造噪音，還有一隻少見的棕色型被腳踏車輾爆。我停下來救了一隻有著劍形產卵管的雌蟲，差點被他忘恩負義的剪狀大顎咬掉一塊肉。因為體型很大顏色又鮮豔，小時候對這個蟲有點又愛怕想抓又不敢抓。我哥則是因為被咬過所以有段時間都會想把他弄死，但其實就是自己手賤。我覺得他可能不是狹義的矛螽Pseudorhynchus，可能比較接近優草螽Euconocephalus（這個破中名不知道是誰翻的，好幾種蟲因為Eu開頭就叫做優某某，我寧可翻真錐頭螽。這幾類頭尖尖的螽斯外型很像，但遺傳距離目前不清楚，可能有些屬之間還有雜交。種內變異缺乏完整描述，連聲學都無法反應生態演化議題，就是個沒人想做的題目。所以分類上就隨便吧。 #無情的跑步仔 # 夏日鳴蟲 #nocturnal #taxonomy