Known for almost of it's history in the literature as extinct in SA, but now appears to have somehow reappeared

cf. fera.

Most likely a male, as it has dark femora.

@stewartwechsler @bradenjudson @bstarzomski @terrymcintosh @david1945wagner @dbltucker @chlorophilia @cwardrop @fmcghee @astorey_botany if any of you have corrections, additions or comments on this I would appreciate any thoughts. I can incorporate them into an edited verion of this.

Another great post! When are you going to write a book of one-line IDs?

Excellent- very helpful @rambryum! I agree with @bradenjudson - love to see that book :)

FYI, there are 12 accepted species for BC at the moment and about 5 more to come (based on European studies of our material; both newly described and older species). Hopefully, we will learn more this year. Three of our accepted species (S. papillosissima, S. subpapillosissima , and S. virescens) have been reported from coastal BC areas, with S. virescens being the most common.

Thanks again rambryum! Using the information in your post, and checking a couple more of my references, after largely not going beyond family on these, I've now dared to go to species on a few Syntrichia observations, that I have hopefully now gotten right!

terrymcintosh, I'd be interested in hearing what authority accepts those 12 species for BC, and indicates that S. virescens is the most common. I just checked e-FloraBC for S. virescens, and they say "There were no records found matching your search criteria". No doubt this might be the result of not keeping up with, or not agreeing with, some more recent taxonomy changes.

This is great!

From my experience with Ontario's Syntrichia norvegica, I find that this green is often blue-green; however, this character is probably variable. This observation https://inaturalist.ca/observations/93004503 shows this blue-green colour relatively well. Additionally, S. cainii appears to be the only Canadian Syntrichia not found in British Columbia. In case you are interested in making a Syntrichia of Canada post, here is some information on S. cainii. I hope to share more information on S. cainii sporophytes and ecology later this year.

Syntrichia cainii (edited)
Habitat: Calcareous rocks on Ontario alvars (Manitoulin Island to Napanee Plain). Often in moist locations with full to partial sunlight in large communities of mosses and algae.
Distinguishing Characteristics: Leaf margins revolute in proximal 1/2-3/4 of the leaf, similar to S. norvegica and S. ruralis. Leaves lack hair points and propagula.
Advanced Characteristics: Laminal cells collenchymatous
One line ID: SAXICOLOUS-CALCAREOUS ONTARIO. ALL LEAVES LACK HAIR POINTS.
Link to observations: https://inaturalist.ca/observations/141665353 https://inaturalist.ca/observations/141664103

Response to Stewart. S. virescens is the most common of the three species on that list but still very rarely collected in BC (the S. ruralis complex is by far the most common 'species' across BC). So you know, e-Flora BC is a poor resource at best for bryophyte data as it is out of date. We (mainly Steve Joya and I) work out of the UBC Herbarium and have just finished a BC list of moss species...so, I suppose, it's our authority to a great degree but based on recent work by Dr. Kramer (in Germany but unpublished but we are hoping) and Dr. Gallego in Spain. Both taxonomists have or have had BC (and Washington) material of Syntrichia and are sorting it out with morphological and genetic work. But we must be patient as this takes time. Once completed (a year perhaps) I will provide a key 'known' Syntrichia species of the PNW. Alas, we must wait.

Response to Adam: I am originally from SW Ontario and helped Brent with his FNA treatment of Syntrichia so am familiar with S. cainii but have never seen it in the field. To me, the most distinguishing character are the collenchymatous laminal cells. Where are you based? BC is rich in all sorts of genera such as Syntrichia, but also Didymodon, the 'Racomitriums' (s.l.), etc. But we need a new BC moss flora! Lawton's excellent PNW flora is way out of date.

Thank you @terrymcintosh

Nice @rambryum! I would add that I more often see S. princeps as an epiphyte rather than on concrete. Also, when scouring concrete for Syntrichia, Tortula muralis is common. Not sure if you want to get into the Syntrichia/Tortula distinction here though.

@terrymcintosh I live in Severn, Ontario, about 5 km from the type location of Syntrichia cainii. In the field, it is distinct from S. ruralis and S. norvegica when hydrated. On alvars, S. cainii can be distinguished by the lack of hair points on all leaves and with recurved margins as mentioned above. It can be easy to spot in April to early June and September to November or after mid-summer rains, but it can be very challenging to find it in July-August if the conditions are dry. S. cainii can grow in monocultures (upto 1+ sq. m.), but more often with multiple species of Bryum, Ptychostomum, Tortella, Syntrichia, Schistidium, Thuidium, Brachythecium, Orthotrichum, and Climacium (very rarely) as well as a variety of cyanobacteria and other microorganisms (e.g., dinoflagellates). I don't have much experience with Didymodon, but I haven't found it with any S. cainii yet.

I haven't spent too much time looking for collenchymatous laminal cells because this species is the only Syntrichia in Ontario which lacks hair points on all of the leaves. I have edited my S. cainii comment to include collenchymatous laminal cells. Thank you bringing my attention to this character. My S. cainii specimens are at the Canadian Museum of Nature (Gatineau, Qc) at the moment, but I can take some better images of this character when I am there in February.

This is wonderful folks- thanks for taking the time to write all this up. I'm afraid I am late to mosses and liverworts, and even later to collecting them for microscopy. I hope to do more of that this year, and am easing myself in. I really appreciate all the details here, and am also slowly learning the lingo, with my Malcolm at my side. Looking forward to that new PNW bryophytes flora :)

Teno endemic

Thanks.

Shawii?

Phanaeus panamensis?

@rbara003 , I do not know Phanaeus panamensis.

@jmmaes

Moctezuma, Victor and Gonzalo Halffter. “Taxonomic revision of the Phanaeus endymion species group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), with the descriptions of five new species.” European journal of taxonomy 747 (2021): 1-71.

Teno endemic

Not sure. The other bird track is not an owl. Can't make out the toe pads on the larger one. Looks like it might be zygodactyl though.

There were rabbit tracks intersecting this track. Should I bump it back to Aves? I was thinking Great Horned Owl would be the only large zygodactyl bird in the area?

And I completely missed that other track!!

GHO would be the only zygodactyl track in that size range that I can think of. Since it's just the claw marks that made imprints, it's difficult. But, their arrangement is that of a large zygodactyl, so I think we can go out on a limb and confirm GHO. One of those super obscure tracks!

I didn't know if you were initially indicating the smaller track, so didn't confirm.

Yeah this dirt/ mud was odd, it was registering claw marks only for a lot of tracks I saw but then some parts were more wet I guess and registered whole tracks. There was one set of rabbit tracks that only looked like it was hopping on one foot because it was wetter on one side than the other. And yeah I didn't even spot that little track at the bottom! Thanks for pointing it out, I made a separate observation for it. Thanks so much Kim!!

Tu olhou se tinha bicho dentro? Me parece mais um ninho de Trigona spinipes abandonado.

Nossa! Não sabia que essas abelhas construíam esses ninhos tão grandes

cf.

ovob tia vidit uživo :)

@enricotosto96 @borisb

likely the same individual as your other Broad-winged Hawk observation

You really see a genital capsule on this photos?

P. yucatanensis seems really dubious. No SERNEC records in Jackson County, and that is a brackish marsh species. This site is upland.

@borisb might also be Chrysomela lapponica

I am not sure what it is @malacoderm @rob-westerduijn @fornax313

coño, si que se parecen bastante los lyra y los vittegerus. Cómo descartamos a los vitti?

No me parece A. graniticum con esas hojas tan finas

Thx!

@wnyjw

@sunflowerguy
@beartracker

Both animals make latrines. Diet can be similar as both eat fruit and meat. Raccoons tend to place scat latrines at the base of a tree or in the fork of a tree's branches. Ringtails are known to deposit scats on top of rocks, etc. Raccoon scats tend to be smooth on the outsides and more tubular at times. They sometimes have a very smooth outside to them. Ringtail scats can vary, but often are more twisted or have twists in them. They sometimes have tapered ends, but that's not predictable with either species. Ringtails are known to prefer riparian areas, as are raccoons. The only really sure way to tell apart is by the tracks themselves, but scats can be placed into groups somewhat. Hope that helps.

Thanks!

Thank you @biohexx1 ! Ringtails are high on my list of species that almost certainly occur at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park at least occasionally, but which we haven't documented. And raccoons are certainly in the park but not commonly observed. I'll be keeping a new eye out for scat that could be from one or the other.

eDNA

https://www.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/detecting-rare-species-using-environmental-dna

eDNA would be a fantastic way to confirm them. If there are any good riparian areas with substrate that shows tracks well, some track surveys might be in order too.

@enricotosto96 @an_entropy

I can't hear anything in this except wind :/

Thank you!

Date is accurate

Could this be marked as research grade now?

direi di si

Citharexylum dentatum?

@marcellomanara la generazione sessuata di Neuroterus quercusbaccarum induce galle in primavera

@ste85

@oceanf I saw you ID'd a bunch of these. What key breaks did you use to ID this and the other plants around it. I am not sure there is enough detail in the images to go with E. microphylla over guttata in the area.

Most definitive way to differentiate is by looking at the roots: E. microphylla an annual with fibrous roots and E. guttata a rhizomed perennial herb.

@marisaszubryt i didn't realize how rare this thing is at the time, assuming i'm correctly remembering/applying the name [i didn't actually key this but am going on what might be faulty recall]...

@jrichardabbott H. rutteri does have a pretty small range and is limited to the hills/plains of SE AZ and Sonora, yes

I like the furriness of the cut-in-half details! But on the first few images find myself like the AI, ignoring the obvious flower to try to zero in on the tiny beetles. :-D

i can only laugh at myself, because i rarely even notice the 'bugs' until i'm processing the images. one of the other plants on this trip had some weevils (which i think are cute, with the long snouts) & i was disappointed in myself that i hadn't noticed them at the time, to take better pictures... with this one, though, even after seeing your use of the word beetles, i still didn't see the beetles at first. my plant brain just tunes them out, apparently...

associated with voucher Szubryt MB 2349 (OKL)

https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/dysphaniini/dysphaniini_1_2.php
Holloway (Moths of Borneo, part 9)

Geographical range. Oriental Region to Sundaland.

also noted is that this species has occasionally been observed in butterfly houses well outside the natural range for this species.... e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/45516615

need a way to show non-native observations outside the natural range for this species where it has been recorded as an alien (eg in a butterfly house)

@hkmoths if you click on a geographical area, then "show listed taxa", you should get a form where you can choose "occurrence status", e.g. doubtful or "establishment means", e.g. introduced. I am not using that much, but I am sure the "introduced" will highlight the area in a different colour ...

updates over time - the iNat admins aand staff have been busy!
Thx @amzamz

Phalaena militaris Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. nat. (edn 10): 505.