What is an interesting rabbit-hole you’ve gone down when identifying? What did you learn from it? Today I found an observation of a mushroom known as A. muscaria flavivolvata. Usually, they’re iconically red. This one was a bit pale, sad, and brown - normal when these mushrooms begin to wither away…

For Chironominae, a large subfamily of Chironomid, the most comprehensive and latest work is 1945. For Tanypodinae it is 1971. Mind you this is just for North America. The other subfamilies have no comprehensive piece of work in North America at least.

I guess what we learned from identifying that taxonomy can be very slow!

Run into this a lot with leech identification, and has made me flat out drop it as I don’t have the resources to get into their ID if everything is paywalled.

Do you have access to a university library (or contact with someone who does)? I’ve found that their databases/subscriptions are often a good way to get paywalled articles. In many ways the accessibility of specialized scientific articles has improved tremendously compared to, say, 10-15 years ago,…

Here is more on A. chrysoblema. Look under Amanita subgenus amanita. https://www.alpental.com/psms/ddd/Amanitaceae/index.htm The Amanita in the PNW are being worked on, still have a way to go. Danny will be speaking at the Oregon Mycological Society meeting on Monday Aug 12. https://www.wildmush…

For me, this phenomenon often comes from identifying something interesting that has no Wikipedia page. I end up looking for enough information on it to create said Wikipedia page. This happened with Scleroderma bermudense and more recently with Alessioporus rubriflavus.

Literally anything that was split by phylogenetics. That’s right, I’m looking at you vertebrae taxonomists.

That pops up occasionally for me. I had one where Bombus sandersoni, that is commonly described as having a thin yellow band on T5, but there is a large area in Canada where that species shows yellow on T4-6. So it had me wondering about the possibility of these being a color variation of Bombus f…

This may be better if it was its own topic, but here we go anyways. I often find fungi species with empty Wikis! What if I want to fill in that information… (i dont know if I even am allowed to), but: What do I put? (what things to include/disclude) -obvious morphology(?) -maybe some microscop…

[image] shroomysean: I often find fungi species with empty Wikis! What if I want to fill in that information https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inat-to-wikipedia-pipeline-thank-you-and-tool-tutorial/49550 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-and-wikipedia/2680 https://forum.inaturalist.…

Identification Rabbit-holes - Been down one recently?

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That_Bug_Guy September 5, 2024, 7:43pm 24

Happy to help! If frigida does turn out to be a distinct species in North America, I’ll have to reidentify all those observations. You may be seeing more activity on your observation from me in the future.

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Identification Rabbit-holes - Been down one recently?

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