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24th June 2021, 05:53 PM #1
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24th June 2021, 06:26 PM #2
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OK but it has been renamed. Now Rutpela maculata; but also known as Black & Yellow Longhorn Beetle. Sometimes the common names can be more of a mouthful than the scientific name.
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24th June 2021, 07:04 PM #3
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Too complicated for me Geoff i think ill just call him Albert
Originally Posted by Geoff F
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26th June 2021, 06:09 PM #4
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Yes, some of this species naming gets far too complicated.
I send most of my records to I Record which is a simple system so, as long as you know the first part of the scientific name or the common name, you get prompted to a scroll down list and just click to select the name.
https://www.brc.ac.uk/irecord/
The county records have a very complicated form so I have given up on sending anything to them. For example, to record that beetle you would have to enter
Coleoptera - Cerambycidae - Rutpela maculata - (address starting with the town name) - Vice County number - exact location as a lat/long or other reference number - numbers of that species found - sex - how it was discovered (eg field observation or trapping method) - habitat where found - species status (national rarity rating).
There is an extra column for additional information which could, I suppose, include the weather or what you had for breakfast!
For general field work remembering of names I tend to bastardise the scientific name into something which I can remember. For example the common hoverfly family of Helophilus becomes Hello Phyllis in my memory. The trouble is that when talking to professional entomologists these memory words slip out into my speech and, unless they are aware of my methods, they seem to think that I am a total idiot.
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26th June 2021, 06:51 PM #5
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That is realy funny Geoff i can just see their faces when you start speaking your own language
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29th June 2021, 03:38 AM #6
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Re: stangalia
Nice pair of images
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