Cosimo Costanzia di Costigliole

Unido: 06.mar.2022 Última actividad: 14.ene.2023 iNaturalist Patrocinador mensual desde noviembre 2022

Advice for beginners on iNat:

  • Resist the urge to blindly click on the "Agree" button! Only give ID's if you can confidently identify it yourself! This way, many false "Research grades" are produced. When in doubt, go a few taxon levels higher.
  • The better your photo quality, the higher the chance you will get a good ID! Especially important for insects. Crop your photos!!
  • Try to photograph insects from different angles, try to include a good dorsal shot of beetles and hemipterans, and with butterflies, both sides of the wings (sometimes difficult!).
  • Do not photograph your computer screens. It diminishes quality, it raises questions about the ownership of the pictures. Also place and location data is often right from the uploader's living room instead of where the observation really occurred. I often mark these observations as "place and date incorrect", which means they will be seen by few people and not reach research grade.

My background:
I am a medical professional and an amateur entomologist based in Vorarlberg, Austria. I record all kind of living things but I am most interested in Coleoptera, Hemiptera and Lepidoptera.

I like to give rather high level ID's to insects so they are more likely seen by specialists. I also have a little more specific expertise with the the beetle genus Tropinota and some others.

Find my older observations on observation.org:
https://observation.org/users/246449/

Useful ID links:
Tropinota:
http://coleonet.de/coleo/texte/tropinota.htm
https://www.biodiversidadvirtual.org/insectarium/Tropinota-squalida-(Scopoli-1783)-img29723.html
https://www.insecte.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=680

Panorpa:
https://naturevulgarisation.wordpress.com/2021/09/14/comment-reconnaitre-les-panorpes-de-suisse/
http://mecoptera.free.fr/accueil.html
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267557733_Contribution_a_l'etude_des_Mecopteres_de_France_Deuxieme_partie_Cle_d'identification_des_Panorpa_de_France_Mecoptera_Panorpidae

Syrphid larvae:
https://diptera.info/mwg-internal/de5fs23hu73ds/progress?id=E6qJbFEYli0RWS4DuF5-yUW4km3kDE1imvMzF8Qaijk,

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