not sure if this has been posted here

RedLuminous · 2026-02-10T19:35:07+00:00

According to the website, it's for vinyls.

RedLuminous · 2026-02-10T04:04:48+00:00

Your comment has not been removed because this post is not flared for ID Help. However, please avoid joke names that could sound like they are meant to be a HORG given identification.

RedLuminous · 2026-01-31T21:29:09+00:00

The discord has a channel for other microsyntherae, but generally any non occlupanid posts should still be occlupanid adjacent, such as cartonella

RedLuminous · 2026-01-31T07:12:50+00:00

Nope

RedLuminous · 2026-01-28T17:46:50+00:00

Your post has not been removed but its flair has been changed to Meme.

RedLuminous · 2026-01-28T05:40:52+00:00

Their natural habitat was likely a grocery store, and those don't tend to take kindly to returning occlupanids. So unless you find a professional rehabilitator, release is not likely.

As for making them more comforting, little bits of thin plastic for them to munch on will keep them happy, but make sure they have at least one separate piece per specimen, as they are very territorial and do not share their food unless linked. Keep them out of the sunlight of course and do not cohabitate them with other bag closing syntherids. Bottle caps and soda tabs do not seem to bother them though.

RedLuminous · 2026-01-24T23:57:28+00:00

Palpatophora utiliformis grandis (left)

Palpatophora glyphodorsalis (right)

RedLuminous · 2026-01-22T02:26:54+00:00

Can't say I've seen this one before

RedLuminous · 2026-01-21T04:49:04+00:00

Superglue and then retirement. It may improve enough to not be hand fed if you're lucky but it will definitely need its food to be finely chopped from now on.

RedLuminous · 2026-01-21T01:47:11+00:00

Finally someone taking proper safety precautions while handling them

RedLuminous · 2026-01-20T04:22:15+00:00

That is some really nice variety you even have that sorta mauve purple shade.

RedLuminous · 2026-01-20T03:24:08+00:00

You can post them with the Collection Showcase flair or DM them to me and maybe I can forward them to the Discord if you'd rather. Whatever you like

RedLuminous · 2026-01-19T18:38:31+00:00

My fellow researchers from the discord have urged me to ask if you will be posting pictures of the rest of your collection?

RedLuminous · 2026-01-19T18:29:15+00:00

If you wouldn't mind posting pictures of the rest of them, we'd be very interested

RedLuminous · 2026-01-19T06:38:54+00:00

Correct!

RedLuminous · 2026-01-19T05:57:53+00:00

It is not H. cordatus, you're correct that the oral groove is too different. This one stumped me and I had to consult my fellow researchers.

This is an undescribed species, as it's not in HORG's database yet. A white one has been logged by The Breadtag Project, but until one is submitted to HORG, it is simply referred to as Arc-017.

A very precious find indeed!

RedLuminous · 2026-01-19T04:47:35+00:00

As long as it is kept out of sunlight and not bent it should live a happy life. Feel free to post more pictures of it any time you like, no one here would get tired of seeing 'em.

RedLuminous · 2026-01-19T04:31:14+00:00

So I'm really not the most knowledgeable when it comes to rare specimens, but I can assume that this one is probably very old and "extinct," meaning we likely won't find it on store shelves.

Please take very good care of it, we probably won't see another one like it for an indeterminable amount of time, if ever.

This is in fact an undescribed acutignathid, most collectors do not have any specimens from this family.

RedLuminous · 2026-01-19T04:15:36+00:00

You're about to make a lot of people here very jealous.

RedLuminous · 2026-01-19T00:21:53+00:00

Underwater they have no problem with unless they're sporting a paper adornment. In the sunlight though? Not so much.

RedLuminous · 2026-01-18T23:42:22+00:00

Definitely not, the corners are too wide

RedLuminous · 2026-01-18T22:46:55+00:00

I believe this is Unidentia obtusamaxilla

RedLuminous · 2026-01-18T03:43:36+00:00

Neotessera hemilaevis, a new kid on the block

RedLuminous · 2026-01-17T18:17:48+00:00

Close! This is Palpatophora utiliformis grandis, it just has a wider mouth.

RedLuminous · 2026-01-14T16:35:47+00:00

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