Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Insects

Zigrasimecia has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 04:49, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

The banner links to WikiProject arthropod and if you click the numbers in the table (which is supposed to give lists of featured articles, good articles, etc.) it gives lists only for arthropods minus insects TrueMoriarty Talk | Contribs 13:14, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Will it not be better if the extinct orders are also included? TrueMoriarty Talk | Contribs 13:16, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

How can I access this? https://archivog.com/0044-5134/article/view/654191 This page has 39 more Allopsontus species than in Wikipedia. TrueMoriarty Talk | Contribs 16:20, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Is Spilostethus hospes really called the "Darth Maul bug" by anyone other than the user named DarthMaul1001 who changed the article to say so? Marbletan (talk) 15:42, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Darth Maul bug has been there since the article was created in 2021 (although none of the sources cited in the initial version mention the name). This webpage was last edited in 2012, and uses the name Darth Maul bug. So it doesn't look like it was invented on Wikipedia. Plantdrew (talk) 16:29, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I got edit-conflicted on this one, but I was going to say at first glance I'm not finding reliable sources saying so, and sources that do pop up in a Google search are or in some cases might be at first glance, WP:CIRCULAR. It looks like this was actually inserted unsourced since the article was first created and not just by the user in question like you said though. With that said though, I'm not sure if the webpage you mention is really enough for that. It's a hobby website of non-professionals, and it amounts to them saying Yes, we know this is the Large Milkweed Bug. We like to call it Darth Maul Bug. I'd probably just nix mention of the supposed common name from what I can find. KoA (talk) 16:38, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I'm fine with nixing it. My primary concern is editors making up common names on Wikipedia that never appeared anywhere else. Names that appear only in non-reliable sources aren't great, but I'm less concerned about that. Plantdrew (talk) 17:11, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, I was basically juggling the same two ideas you mention too. If it's a hobby website that started the name for whatever reason (kind of reads like "pet name" on the Brisbane site), I'm a little wary of Wikipedia amplifying it with respect to CIRCULAR. Between the two guardrails you describe, I'd say this one is closer the scenario you described of editors outright making up names than it is to a scenario of just being a minor common name you can find in ok sources. Kind of seems like a gray-zone area of someone obviously making it up IRL, but not really sticking in sources overall until Wikipedia picked it up. KoA (talk) 18:31, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I'd suggest the Brisbane insects site probably made up the name Darth Maul Bug. It seems like an inside joke. Incidentally, Large Milkweed Bug seems to be used for a number of species including Graptostethus varipictus, as well as Oncopeltus fasciatus.  —  Jts1882 | talk  17:14, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I'm not sure if "inside joke" is quite the right way to describe it. Obi-wan conobea#Taxonomy and naming describes what might be consider an "inside joke", but Flora of the Chicago Region is quite insistent that is "jocular lingo", but not a joke, and I would generally consider that flora to be a reliable source. My first field job, we called Potentilla gracilis "pot-grass" from the first syllables and it's resemblance to Cannabis; jocular lingo, I guess? We did abbreviate other commonly encountered species to their first syllables. Plantdrew (talk) 17:44, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Gigamachilis has been nominated for upgrading to good article status. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments in the nomination page. TrueMoriarty Talk | Contribs 13:57, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

A sub-stub article on has been created (again) and is now nominated for deletion, comments are looked for on the deletion- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Günter Bechly (3rd nomination)--Kevmin § 17:36, 6 March 2026 (UTC)