Brown bush warbler is so dumb cause literally all bush warblers are brown → https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/339725-Locustella-luteoventris
Firewood-gatherer → https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/11850-Anumbius-annumbi
And my personal favourite, the bokikokiko
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/116765-Acrocephalus-aequinoctialis
Whirligig Mites (Genus Anystis) is one that made me chuckle
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/158969917
The White-naped Honeyeater too - all but one of the species in it’s genus, Melithreptus (containing 7 species), have white napes.
Virgin creeper (100% safe for work – they’re plants in the genus Parthenocissus).
personally, I think it’s a little weird that there’s a genus called ‘necrophilia’ (carrion beetles, so the name makes sense, but yeesh)
Of all the world’s vultures, the only one in the Genus Vultur is… a condor.
… Which is a large species of vulture?
I’ve mentioned this one in previous threads
The Passenger Pigeon Louse, Columbicola extinctus…
Turns out it’s not extinct… whoops…
Those aren’t even vultures, just distant relatives of Accipitridae.
I mean, it depends on your definition of “vulture” and preferred taxon scheme. Even “old world vulture” is a paraphyletic concept in some taxonomic schemes.
Batman Moth
The Joker
Darth Maul bug
Exasperating Platynota
Confused Woodgrain Moth
New World vultures are a subject of taxonomic debate. Some state they are in fact more related to storks. Old World vultures are classified as accipitridae.
fun fact dracorex hogwartsia actually has three different genus and species names. One name is for the baby dinosaur, another for the juvenile, and a third for the adult.
i choose death
Mint Loving Pyrausta Moth and Coffee Loving Pyrausta Moth
I find it useful to search for (historically) edible plants by searching for “edulis” is the taxon search, these two aren’t plants and seem particularly singled-out:
Note: I think “edulis” should be treated with caution. In practice it’s somewhat dubious and tends to mean “barely edible”.
Concholepas concholepas is a weird muricid marine snail locally called loco in Chile, which means crazy/mad/nuts hahaha this name probably has precolombin roots and used to mean another thing
Trying to pick up some Spanish for upcoming travel. Recently I learned about Enema pan. Which I guess translates to Bread Enema.
Depressed hedgehog (a mushroom)
so #me