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Osmia rufa (Osmia bicornis)?

Hi! Colleague, can you help with the definition? I'm not sure I categorized these bees correctly: File:Осмия рыжая KR 01.jpg, File:Осмия рыжая KR 02.jpg. --Лобачев Владимир (talk) 13:19, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

• Hi! Thank you for your response and contact. --Лобачев Владимир (talk) 04:55, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

Files in Category:Internet Archive (mostly blank)

When images are in this category, they don't need other templates. Thanks Fæ (talk) 11:16, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Corythucha arcuata?

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Hello,

Using this article I suppose that the picture on the left is a Corythucha arcuata, could you please confirm or infirm? Thanks in advance, Michelet-密是力 (talk) 07:31, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Micheletb: . My familiarity is more with Hymenoptera and Neuroptera, though I believe the genus looks to be correct (and that the one on the left doesn't appear to be C. ciliata). There are a few other similar species reported from that area of Maryland, and I'm aware that identification is difficult (sometimes impossible from photos) without both a lateral view and the host plant species. Regrettably, keys to US species are also really out of date (with 10+ spp. described since the last major one I'm aware of). My best thoughts would be reaching out to Dr. Laura T. Miller (WV Department of Agriculture) or Alexander H. Knudson (North Dakota State University) to see if it's possible to ID to species as they're both experts on Tingidae of the US. Lhikan634 (talk) 09:53, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

OK, thantks a lot for having had a look. Michelet-密是力 (talk) 10:03, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

My "Red linked" people

Hi! I am working on a magazine at wikisource. This magazine has many repeat contributors and a nice way to keep track of them is to make a red link to their names and check them to see if other links go there.

However, if this is to be an issue, me (or you) seeing the red link, especially if there is a wikidata item for it, and it is a person (as this was: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:St._Nicholas-Vol_1.1-535-1.jpg&curid=118269893&diff=664794181&oldid=664074075) can make the link exist, and make the creator template for it. That puts more than one item in the category and it is productive and it helps other productive people. Or, you can just leave them be.

The thing is, I am not just catting things. I am proofing the articles and processing the images. I would probably remember a "George A. King" but not which Volume and what issue in that volume. Perhaps you have another suggestion for how to keep track of them here or a way to help other "catters" to make the link (with the creator) and divvy with the associated wikidata. I love new ideas and others looking at the problem(s) I am trying to solve. Thanks!--RaboKarbakian (talk) 01:10, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

There are a few things that might be worth consideration. Generally, existing categories based on authorship designate both the medium and the author (e.g. Category:Photos by Sylvie Jeanson (La Casamaures) or Category:Works by Leonardo da Vinci‎). The image in question, for instance, doesn't portray George A. King. Just using his name to categorize the file seems to go against guidance on Commons:Categories (albeit points that aren't uniformly followed anyway). In this case, there's also currently only one file attributed to him, so I would have to wonder why we would need both a Creator page and a category to serve the exact same purpose. I generally keep to biological files, where it isn't very common (at least in my sampling) to see images from the literature sorted by both the work and by creator unless it's a fairly prolific creator. Categories also typically are intended for grouping multiple images, so a category with only a single image might not be noteworthy (though species tend to be an exception due to their nature). 2603:8081:5000:6BE7:2813:9656:CA06:882B 08:13, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

Sphex funerarius?

Hi, you recently helped me with a wasp identification. I have a new challenge: members of entomologie.de tentatively identified the species on the attached image as Sphex funerarius. Comparing the image to others on the net shows indeed many similarities, but my wild, green garden where the image was taken (on a Mentha plant) seems to be very different from the typical habitat described on the German Wikipedia (wide, barren, sandy, ...). What do you think? Best, Pjt56 (talk) 08:53, 16 August 2023 (UTC)