Catocala (Larvae) [partial list]

Maybe it would be worth adding links to the observations in the species groups we are adding, and also a link of the Ventral View field observations? Not sure if that fits in with your purpose for this page. Awesome that you are collecting all this information in one spot. Thank you!!

Made a separate page for Catocala maestosa but will also leave the info on this page for now.
https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/woolcarderbee/98341-catocala-maestosa

Will have to review my html coding as some things aren't working as planned.

Cool! Are you adding links to other species as you have time? There are a variety of other species that could be added with RG photos as well. Let me know if you want a list of ones I think would be good to start with.

nuptialis, abbreviatella, whitneyi, amestris should all be good (I have a lot of reared examples of abbreviatella and amestris to add at some point if that impacts what you add).

Some that I have images and reared images of but haven't gone through the pool of other images yet: serena, amica (amica/lineella), obscura, judith, insolabilis, habilis, antinympha, minuta, meskei, micronympha

I wonder if there is a way to collect a link of reared examples here under the RG link for each species? I don't know the best way to do that, if we found a way it would probably add a lot of good photos that would augment the RG observations, and lots of the reared photos (like almost all of mine) won't show up in the RG link if they have been marked captive... Not sure the best way to filter for that, because if you only do the 'captive' filter then you miss any observation the observer took in the development series initially when the larva/organism was still wild. I guess you could filter by that one Reared Insect Nymphs/Larva project? But that would mean the observer would have had to add their observations to that project. Hmmm...

There are some other links I would like to add. Specifically some which show examples of what to photograph for best chances of getting an ID. Ex., Top, side, venter, head, host plant if available or at least a mention of what was nearby. Any other thoughts?

Hey! Is there a place on here where we could store the species groups we are using for easy reference? Then we could make sure we're being consistent when entering one. We could maybe put them by foodplant category (since that is one of the species groups anyways)? Just don't want to enter something as neogama/maestosa and another one as maestosa/neogama etc.

What I recall us using so far:

hickory
neogama/maestosa

oak
micronympha/similis

poplar/willow
meskei/junctura

rosaceae

ericaceae

amorpha
whitneyi/abbreviatella

I guess I meant that when we are adding the 'species group field' for some of these, it would be helpful to have a reference of the specific order/names we are entering into that field so that it stays consistent over many larvae. For example, so that we continue to add all species in one group as neogama/maestosa rather than accidentally typing maestosa/neogama in reverse order (or poplar/willow rather than willow/poplar) for some observations. Also, if we had a record of existing species groups, if somebody wanted to go back and review a species group it would be easy to see the ones that they could search for. Does that clarify at all?