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Where can I find a simple physical description of a termite

For Microhodotermes viator; I can't find a physical description anywhere beyond these body length figures. ꧁Zanahary꧂ 13:12, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Zanahary:, there's a description (as Hodotermes viator) starting on the bottom of this page [1]. There's quite a bit more about it on the 9 previous pages (mostly discussing it in relation to similar species, but also including Latreille's original description (in French)). Plantdrew (talk) 17:56, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Asking for help - Brachytemnus, and Bryophacis articles

Greetings, Since this topic I know very little about, I'm hoping for expert here. Both articles need at least one incoming link in order to remove the Orphan tag.

Brachytemnus, for this one, it says family Staphylinidae
Bryophacis, I found List of Curculioninae genera, but have no knowledge if Bryophacis can be added there, or how to add correctly.

Thanks for helping improve these two articles. Regards, JoeNMLC (talk) 19:17, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done - JoeNMLC (talk) 23:48, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dispute over the lead image of the insect article

There is a dispute over whether the lead image of the Insect article should be a single species of insect or should be a gallery of multiple insect species (e.g. [2] [3]). Please participate at Talk:Insect#Lead_image_redux if interested. Thanks. Hemiauchenia (talk) 07:32, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Acanthocephala terminalis

There’s a bit of a disagreement going on over at Talk:Acanthocephala terminalis and I would really appreciate if some more experienced editors could weigh in, specifically regarding the inclusion of some potentially self-published sources. Thanks Ncb1221 (talk) 14:11, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mantophasmatodea families

How many families does the (sub)order Mantophasmatodea have? Wikipedia currently treats it as having a single family Mantophasmatidae, but this appears to have been entirely based on Arillo and Engel (2006) and has been so since 2008.

When you look to other sources, Zompro (2005) uses two families, Ensiferophasmatidae and Mantophasmatidae, but places a number of genera in synonymy with Mantophasma (which others after him have restored as valid). Meanwhile, Klauss et al. (2003) and Damgaard et al. (2008) prefer to use three families, Austrophasmatidae, Mantophasmatidae and Tanzaniophasmatidae. Looking to online databases, ITIS (uptodate as of this year apparently) uses Klaus et al.'s three families, while Mantophasmatodea Species File seems to use a combination of Zompro's two families but Arillo+Engel's tribes and genera (and some genera described more recently).

Personally, I think Wikipedia should following the three-family classification set up in Damgaard et al. (2008), which I think might be the most accepted one at present (but I could be wrong). But I wanted to check here first, in case I shouldn't update Wikipedia accordingly with this classification for whatever reason. Monster Iestyn (talk) 18:09, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like three families might be the way to go, but whichever it ends up being, it would be a good idea to include mention of these alternate taxonomies on the relevant articles. awkwafaba (📥) 00:00, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]