A bee term glossary

[David Cappaert]

All - In spending 100s of hours working through keys of all kinds, I've had to navigate the terminology. There are cases where I can't find a clear text definition. Many more cases where I need an image or drawing, and a bee-specific explanation to make sense of a term. So I created a glossary:

!g

[Douglas Yanega]

In case you weren't aware, the task of compiling a glossary of all the
specialized terms used for hymenopterans is available online at the
"Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology Portal" -

http://portal.hymao.org/projects/32/public/ontology/

You can use it to look up terms like "notaulus" and "omaulus", etc., and
this is helpful seeing how the same or similar terms can refer to the
same or similar structures in other hymenopteran groups.

Peace,

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[David Cappaert]

All - In spending 100s of hours working through keys of all kinds, I've had to navigate the challenging terminology. There are cases where I can't find a clear text definition. Many more cases where I need an image or drawing, and a bee-specific explanation to make sense of a term. So I created a glossary:

Glossary of terms that describe bees: a guide for the non-taxonomist

This is a draft, and will contain errors and omissions. My examples are biased to the taxa I (kind of) know, and the specimens in my limited collection. But where I have failed to be precise, or misinterpreted a term, it is not for lack of effort. If I am confused, it is likely that many advanced amateurs are likewise confused. 

A good example came up in Sam and Clare's bee class: malar space. This is defined in bugguide (and elsewhere) as: The area between the bottom of the compound eye and the top of the mandible. But where it is an important trait - say Bombus or Andrena - the simple definition is insufficient to evaluate a specimen in a precise way. My entry gets me closer, the photos being critical. My entry will be closer still when people in the bee community let me know what I should tweak or add. 

So: please hit me with any kind of feedback you have time for, from suggested edits, to grand ideas about how the concept should evolve, or who might like to collaborate.

Thanks, 

David Cappaert

capp...@comcast.net

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[Droege, Sam]

All

 

Don’t underestimate David’s contribution here.  We all could use a glossary similar to this.  This is a contribution that will be useful across all bee taxa and can be expanded to include exceptions, obscure features, etc.  It would be nice to make this the one stop shop for terminology.

 

There is a place for adding in additional older taxonomic terms here too.  Really there is no limit, so please contribute you suggestions as to what is missing.  David’s pictures are magnificent and he is willing to both do the work and share this guide freely, allowing for translations once “complete” into other languages.

 

This is the sort of work that few of us have the time to do ourselves, but here is an opportunity to build what we all know we need but lack the time and gumption to do.

 

Sam

 

Woe!

 

It is true, our tribe is similar to the bees,

It gathers honey of wisdom, carries it, stores it in honeycombs.

I am able to roam for hours

Through the labyrinth of the main library, floor to floor.

But yesterday, looking for the words of masters and prophets,

I wandered into high regions

That are visited by practically no one.

I would open a book and could decipher nothing.

For letters faded and disappeared from the pages.

Woe! I exclaimed-so it comes to this?

Where are you, venerable ones, with your beards and wigs,

Your nights spent by a candle, griefs of your wives?

So a message saving the world is silenced forever?

At your home it was the day of making preserves.

And your dog, sleeping by the fire, would wake up,

Yawn, and look at you, as if knowing.

 

--Czeslaw Milosz

 

 

 

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[Clay Bolt]

These are excellent resources. Thanks, David and Doug. Bookmarking. :D 

Clay

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All - In spending 100s of hours working through keys of all kinds, I've had to navigate the terminology. There are cases where I can't find a clear text definition. Many more cases where I need an image or drawing, and a bee-specific explanation to make sense of a term. So I created a glossary:

!g

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[Joel Gardner]

Seconding Doug's link to the HAO portal.  This is an extremely
comprehensive glossary and includes just about any morphological term
that has been applied to any Hymenoptera.  I would recommend to David to
make sure that all his definitions are consistent with the ones in HAO
(but can be more specific to bees).

However, HAO does seem to be missing some bee-specific terms.  On a whim
I tried looking up "trochanteral flocculus" and "acarinarium" and
neither of these seem to be in HAO.

HAO portal also does not have so many pictures, so I can see David's
glossary being especially useful for the target audience of non-taxonomists.

I scrolled through it and did not notice anything clearly wrong.  (I
know it's a joke but maybe "dentist" is a bit out of place?)  It looks
very good!

Regarding malar spaces: there was a paper on morphometrics of *Bombus
vagans* and *Bombus sandersoni* that used a very precise and
well-defined method of measuring the malar space consistently, which I
would recommend following: https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11100669

[Victor H. Gonzalez Betancourt]

Good glossary David!

Victor 

On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 3:23 PM David Cappaert <davidc...@appliedeco.org> wrote:

All - In spending 100s of hours working through keys of all kinds, I've had to navigate the terminology. There are cases where I can't find a clear text definition. Many more cases where I need an image or drawing, and a bee-specific explanation to make sense of a term. So I created a glossary:

!g

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[Dennis E Johnson]

David,

Wonderful work that is easy to use and can be expanded on. A picture can be worth a thousand words but when combined with the description it becomes much clearer. Thanks for your effort.

Denny Johnson

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