mecopteron_bouillon's Journal

Notes for what to add to this journal post:

Tenebrionid burrowing videos
Squamanotoxus elegans burrowing video
Jumping Psocid nymph (video?)
Beetle mites
Ladybug
Note on Cydara (sadly not photographed)
Jumping moth, wasps (including Trichogrammatid), Saldids, Ephydrids, and others.
Whatever I may have temporarily forgotten. With videos, potentially embed, but at least linked to youtube.

To-do upon specimen access.

1. Identify specimen to genus, potentially confirming tentative ID.
2. Write notes on their observation (jumping, associations, habitat, etc.)
3. Research group (Taxonomy, Biology, Ecology, Morphology, etc.)
4. Determine species if possible (send to specialist if needed)
5. If undescribed measure everything and write description, along with aforementioned notes (both specimens, including uncollected one).
6. Ping Scelionid specialists on Inat, potentially publish, and/or co-author with specialist (alongside other descriptions?)

Disclaimer: All of the information here should not yet be taken as credible and is subject to change. As I am researching this taxon I am adapting and changing this document to reflect the current research and taxonomy. Sentences or phrases marked with question marks are aspects that I am specifically looking to confirm (or refute), but that does not mean that they are necessarily incorrect or that sentences and phrases that are not marked with question marks are the current consensus. The citations currently present are also subject to change, as there may be an eventual shift to paragraphs rather than simply note taking. Basically to summarize every part of this journal post is tentative.

General Info:
Common names: Monocerus beetles

Taxonomy:
[Family Anthicidae]
Subfamily - Notoxinae
-Genus Hypaspistes
-Genus Leptoprion
-Genus Mecynotarsus
-Genus Notoxus
-Genus Plesionotoxus
-Genus Pseudonotoxus
-Genus Squamanotoxus

References:

Chandler, Donald S. “A New Genus of Notoxini Based on the Elegans and Schenklingi Groups of Mecynotarsus (Coleoptera: Anthicidae).” Transactions of the American Entomological Society (1890-), vol. 127, no. 4, 2001, pp. 473–94. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25078761.

Bittacidae:
Anabittacus iridipennis (endemic) (https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1452432-Anabittacus-iridipennis)
Bittacus chilensis (endemic) (https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/923112-Bittacus-chilensis)

Eomeropidae:
Notiothauma reedi (endemic) (https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1060850-Notiothauma-reedi)

Nannochoristidae:
Nannochorista andina (https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1387026-Nannochorista-andina)
Nannochorista edwardsi (https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1387027-Nannochorista-edwardsi)
Nannochorista neotropica (https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1387029-Nannochorista-neotropica)