While this is a somewhat trivial example, the LLM approach would be much more useful for someone who initially didn't a genus identification and needed to sift through of the ~730 Nearctic ichneumonine species. For fun, here is the species in question: Cratichneumon fossorius.

The overview of the paper was spot on, too. As the author, I can confirm there aren't any hallucinations, at least for this small example. This could be a game changer for non-experts to get useful information from taxonomic papers.

#entomology

Maine*

A few of the 31 species I've sorted are probably described, but only known from Colorado or British Columbia, for instance. I bet the majority are undescribed, however.

You can see more at ichsofna.org.

Due to the massive diversity of Ichneumon (and other Ichneumonini), it's practically impossible to tell most species apart, like all of these brownish-red females.

I can't believe no one called me out on this one! It's really just an incredibly obscure species called Pseudoamblyteles homocerus. I had overlooked the small propodeal apophyses. Well, still a new Utah state record!

My first pseudoscorpion observation was pure luck. Happen to see this wasp and took a shot. It was only later did I see what was hanging on the antenna.

On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ]

The crucial character is the pectinate tarsal claws which is very unusual among #Nearctic #ichneumonines.

from the 6-meter Malaise**

I don't currently but could try out some pans at the bottom. Even better, I have a friend who runs a lot of VFITs in Utah who would probably be happy to trade. I'll dm you his email.

claridgetraps.com