{"id":87,"date":"2015-04-03T20:56:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T20:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/?page_id=87"},"modified":"2026-01-25T16:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:48:38","slug":"the-travels","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/?page_id=87","title":{"rendered":"Taxonomy Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I started this site I had no immediate plans to cover details of taxonomy. I wanted to focus on presenting photos and biological information rather than details of taxonomic characters, identification, nomenclature, etc. Since retiring from my paid work in 2024 I have started planning for taxonomic essays and projects of various lengths and complexities to be posted on AphidTrek. These will small projects like evaluations of identification keys from old papers, discussions of ranges of variation in species, discussion of putative undescribed species, the details of taxonomy of genera of interest, etc. If you are interested in a PDF of any of these essays, feel free to send a request via email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4160.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4160-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4160-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4160-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4160-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4160-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4160-624x468.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_4160.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">My research &#8220;bench&#8221; in my home office, prepared to put together my findings on some similar Pleotrichophorus species.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started this site I had no immediate plans to cover details of taxonomy. I wanted to focus on presenting photos and biological information rather than details of taxonomic characters, identification, nomenclature, etc. Since retiring from my paid work in 2024 I have started planning for taxonomic essays and projects of various lengths and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-87","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2900,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}