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My username refers to dicynodonts—specifically, Diictodon, a Late Permian dicynodont that survived the end-Permian mass extinction. They are one of the "protagonist" taxa in the third and final episode of the 2005 BBC documentary series Walking with Monsters.

I am a full-time student and may not significantly contribute to Wikipedia for weeks or months at a time. However, I consult it almost every day (not as a citable source :)), so I will probably see messages relatively quickly.

Note: One of the Wikipedia guidelines I'm most wary of is the "original research" guideline; if it seems like anything I've added is bordering on original research, please let me know and/or correct it as you see fit. I am a biology student, and I like to dig very deeply into topics, especially in areas I have an active interest in, and I sometimes have trouble distinguishing important from unimportant information (something I have a handle on but has historically been a problem). This can sometimes manifest as excessive detail and/or drawing what I believe to be my own logical conclusions or inferences that nonetheless do not belong on Wikipedia until/unless they make their way into a published paper.

1. Hemaris aethra

• Extra stuff from research and article-writing
• To-do list: copyedit; add seasonal data (when on the wing)

2. Alpinobombus – barebones, could use expansion; created ahead of Bombus pyrrhopygus article (see drafts and to-do list below)

User:Dicynodont/drafts

• Phylogeny of Apoidea; needs to be reviewed and potentially reorganized according to most recent phylogenetic information available
  • Sphecidae/Bembicinae/Crabronidae relative to each other and Anthophila
  • Phylogenetic tree on Apoidea is c. 2018 and does not match the phg. relationships given in family articles, e.g. Bembici(n/d)ae given as outgroup of Sphecidae rather than as subfamily nested within Crabronidae
    • Move to a template of its own and transclude onto relevant page(s)?
  • Bees arose as clade within Crabronidae or within Ammoplanidae?
    • Ammoplanidae sister group to bees (?)
  • WikiProject Hymenoptera?
• Hemaris genus of hawkmoths, especially the North American "clearwings":
  • diffinis – update: diffinis as species complex; splitting off of thetis in 2009, aethra in 2018; potential remaining cryptic species (Schmidt 2009, 2018)
  • thysbe
  • gracilis – do a quick review of the literature; occurrence? decline? very spotty distribution and many modern records are unreliable or wrong e.g. actually thysbe or diffinis
  • thetis – Schmidt 2009
  • aethra – see "Articles created"
• Sweat bee genera Agapostemon, Halictus, Lasioglossum, Augochlora(!)
  • Ceratina australensis
• Create Natural History of Georgia (U.S. State)
• Bombus stubs + missing articles
  • Subgenus Alpinobombus
• Green lacewing subfamilies Apochrysinae and Nothochrysinae
• Coccinellini

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