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Instar designations--L or i?
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<blockquote data-quote="danl82" data-source="post: 331811" data-attributes="member: 10677"><p>As far as I'm aware the L1, L2 etc designations actually come from the german word Larven. </p><p></p><p>The whole point of scientific names is that there is a single internationally recognised name. They use latin as it is essentially a dead language, not spoken by any population in the world, this means it is not subject to slang or derivation. </p><p></p><p>The problem with common names is that if someone says I have a dead leaf mantis what species is it? One of the Deroplatys, Phyllocrania, Acanthops or one of a huge number of possible species. Deroplatys dessicata on the other hand is definitive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="danl82, post: 331811, member: 10677"] As far as I'm aware the L1, L2 etc designations actually come from the german word Larven. The whole point of scientific names is that there is a single internationally recognised name. They use latin as it is essentially a dead language, not spoken by any population in the world, this means it is not subject to slang or derivation. The problem with common names is that if someone says I have a dead leaf mantis what species is it? One of the Deroplatys, Phyllocrania, Acanthops or one of a huge number of possible species. Deroplatys dessicata on the other hand is definitive. [/QUOTE]
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