Common Spelling and Taxonomy Errors
1. Genus names are capitalized: Pheidole, not pheidole.2. Species names are not capitalized: desertorum, not Desertorum.3. One larva, two larvae (not larvaes)4. One pupa, two pupae (not pupas, and...
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Larvas, pupas and antennas (the natural English plurals of larva, pupa and antenna) are acceptable, but not preferred over the Latin forms ending in -ae. "Larvaes, pupaes" and "antennaes", however,...
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Because I've been guilty of this (someone corrected to nuptual from nuptial which I accepted w/o checking).nuptial is correctnuptual is not. (in fact websters doesn't even show the word so don't use...
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how about this:formal taxonomic names above the species level are capitalized, but informal taxonomic names are not.For example:FormicidaeformicidFormicinaeformicineAttiniattinethe informal subfamily...
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Well, the first few arent spelling, but binomial nomenclature.
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Antman Mike, good point there. I'm changing the title of the thread.
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Another pet peeve is people keep refering to their ants as "he" or "guys". Hmmmm.
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Numbers 1 and 2 keep cropping up a lot. 1. Genus names are capitalized: Pheidole, not pheidole.2. Species names are not capitalized: desertorum, not Desertorum.Both should ideally be in italics.
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