I don't get this...

[idolomantis]

look, so i've heard many people giving other names on this fella:

We all know this is the chinese mantis, but now the real question:

From browsing trough the forums, a few people call them

tenodera aridifolia

A few others call it

tenodera sinensis

And the most call it

tenodera aridifolia sinensis

Are sinensis and aridifolia 2 diffrent spieces or is sinensis a sub spieces from aridifolia?

If it's the last case, what is the diffrence between those 2?;

I think Christian knows this :lol:

 

[vafan13]

Assuming bugguide.net is accurate, sinensis is the subspecies.

Family Mantidae

Genus Tenodera

Species aridifolia (Tenodera aridifolia)

Subspecies sinensis (Chinese Mantid)

 

[sidewinder]

idolomantis,

The trinomial name is Tenodera aridifolia sinensis.

The genus is Tenodera. The species is T. aridifolia. The subspecies is T. a. sinensis.

Here is an article that describes how to use scientific names in written text. It describes when to use abbreviations, etc.

http://www.interaktv.com/articles/scinames.htm

S-

 

[Christian]

I have told this many times, but I'll give it another try:

Tenodera aridifolia sinensis is WRONG, because it is outdated.

T. sinensis is right. It was treated as a subspecies of T. aridifolia for a long time, but this was an error, as both species are as different as T. sinensis and T. angustipennis are, for instance.

The confusion only arose because this species was often used in scientific studies whose authors, being not taxonomists, used this name (T. a. sinensis) for decades, although it was corrected by taxonomy much earlier.

T. aridifolia is, of course, closely related (otherwise there would be no confusion), but distributed more in the tropics, while T. sinensis is its subtropical and temperate counterpart. The distribution in N-America is of no importance in this regard, as it was introduced there.

 

[The_Asa]

We should totally stickie everything Christian says

So what's the difference between aridifolia and sinensis?

 

[idolomantis]

We should totally stickie everything Christian says

Trying to get a free mantis from Germany, Asa?

 

[The_Asa]

No...but if we do we could get a pretty awesome book.

 

[idolomantis]

No...but if we do we could get a pretty awesome book.

i 2nd that.

 

[sidewinder]

I fixed the Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_mantis

There are some other things the article I want to fix but I will do that later.

S-

 

[darkspeed]

We should totally stickie everything Christian says

Or maybe an easier solution would be to ask Peter to add an extra function to the search feature that only searches Christian's posts. He has answered just about every legitimate question on this board at least once as it is, so that would be very usefull.