HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 07/10/2026www.horg.com/horg/?page_i...horg.comEctinolabis planetapolis 010
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Recently described Archignathid species from the Netherlands. From demolition sites to communal kitchens, Ectinolabis planetapolis has a preference for public spaces that are in constant flux. Its long slender oral hooks may also perform a sensory function, helping it seek out new environs. 1246
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Palpatophora utiliformis grandis! They are cosmopolitan in distribution and hosts www.horg.com/horg/?page_i...horg.comPalpatophora utiliformis grandis 100
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Harvested from a kitchen drawer, this colorful clattering of occlupanids was collected by a field researcher in Stockbridge, MI. 4307
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A pair of small occlupanids who inhabit the rarified ecological habitat of gashapons and similar toy microclimates. Diagonalobus sasa has an especially unique palpular arrangement, with the lesser distal and proximal palps entirely absent. Specimens submitted by FORC occlupanologist D. Mendoza. 0259
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Excellent question! Markings can vary greatly within populations of the same morphology. HORG differentiates taxa primarily by size and shape of an occlupanid’s oral groove. 020
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Highlights from a small clattering of diverse occlupanids, collected during a HORG survey at a materials re-use establishment in Portland, OR. It is always a pleasure to encounter older species in the field such as Porrectofrontus rubikarloffia, even in such rarified environments. 1417
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 16/08/2026experiments confirm your hypothesis www.horg.com/horg/wp-cont... 051
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 15/08/2026www.horg.com/horg/?page_i...horg.comHylotypus pseudophormus 092
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Hylotypus pseudophormus, a newly described occlupanopsid. It is a mimic of one of the most numerous occlupanids on the planet, P. glyphodorsalis. Notable for the subtle woven pattern adorning one of its sides. Specimen discovered by researchers at the Tennessee Occlupanid Research Division (TORD). 43010
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group site is down for repair for the next couple of days. We apologize to any occlupanologists trying to verify or look up species during this time! 0122
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Excellent find! That’s the smallest Haplognathid known to science, Athyrmidion imagiglacialis! www.horg.com/horg/?page_id=3262horg.comAthyrmidion imagiglacialis 140
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Happy to help! Worth noting that some of those symbols on our site are unique to occlupanology. We have scans of the originals from our archives. If you’d like send us a dm! 130
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Presenting the newly described Arcualatus rubidicax, A rather infamous occlupanid endemic to the UK, with a curious history. Making its debut nearly six years ago as a well-documented internet meme, this Tridentid has at last been added to the HORG database. www.horg.com/horg/?page_i... 0337
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 29/05/2026yes, two specimens have been donated to HORG. With those oral hooks of titanium, what dire creature must its host entity be? We shudder to imagine 120
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Indeed these seem like a clear case of convergent evolution. Though if anything their closest analogue in the occlupanida might be the mysterious Fusoridae.. www.horg.com/horg/?page_i...horg.comFusoridae 020
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 13/05/2026For those with scientific interest in our "Diversity of Occlupanids" wall hanging, here is a numeric overlay along with a link to our species listing, so you can test your mettle on occlupanid identification! www.horg.com/horg/wp-cont... 0285
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Their forms are as varied as the stories of their discovery. While many of these species are incredibly common, some are the only duplicate samples in our care (our holotype samples are stored elsewhere!). Even this incredible array is only a sampling of the wealth of occlupanids known to science. 0130
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Our Cultural Occlupanology team proudly unveils a colorful addition to the studious halls of HORG. Behold our new wall display, "A Diversity of Occlupanids"! These specimens have been assembled from occlupanids collected throughout HORG's history, as well as many donated from contributing scholars. 14111
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 16/04/2026The chartoniphytous Hong Kong occlupanopsid Chartocutis shiwakurisu also mimics I. kurisu, and has fooled even seasoned occlupanologists. C. shiwakurisu has a notable predilection for roaming pedestrian crossings near fruit markets, once it has detached from its host and its (usually large) amicula. 071
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 16/04/2026These next species have arrived courtesy of the Heung-Shing Expeditionary Lab for Occlupanology (HELO), and both have a connection to Infirmimaxilla kurisu. The first is the latest in a string of ever-increasingly-clever mimics in the genus Kurisuphenax, found on paper bags of grapes in Hong Kong. 1193
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 13/04/2026The HORG mailroom was recently gifted a collection of mail art 'Artistamps' crafted by Nonlocal Variable. The stamps depict diverse HORG holotypes collaged with artists in one set, and another cleverly re-arranged with invertebrate nomenclature from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur. 0275
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 11/04/2026This is an absolutely phenomenal body of work on the Vestimentia! 020
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Discovered in a shipment of laboratory gloves by field researcher C. Cody. Often such gloves would be shipped in a cardboard tube, but one shipment arrived swaddled in a large plastic bag with C. necopinus attached. It is surmised that this occlupanid escaped predation during its postal migration. 0264
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 25/03/2026They were then quarantined and brought back through customs under tight controls. They have since been relegated to a secure area at our facility, lest they escape to the HORG break room and masquerade as drink coasters. 0171
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 25/03/2026While it is the opinion of reputable synthetic taxonomists that specimens of this scale are probably too large to be considered microsyntherans, the exquisite gilded markings were too elaborate for the visiting scholars to resist, and so several specimens were collected on site. 1151
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Part of the museum "gift-wrapping" service, these colossal chartoniphytes employ human agents, who attach these boldly-embossed entities to bolts of fine cloth, entrapping any purchased items in a silken sarcophagus. 1100
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 25/03/2026At the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, visiting occlupanologists on holiday last October were alarmed to find what appeared to be immense occlupanopsids in the museum store! 1304
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 19/03/2026One of the many institutions celebrating Taxonomist Appreciation Day is the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), which lists some amazing creatures described this past year, including the Darth Vader Supergiant Isopod Bathynomus vaderi. www.marinespecies.org/worms-top-te...marinespecies.orgWoRMS - Press release top ten remarkable species of 2025 061
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Happy Taxonomist Appreciation Day! On this day the synthetic taxonomist community, and HORG in particular, celebrates the rigorous and passionate work that underpins our knowledge of the natural world. Scholars of Microsynthera everywhere owe a deep debt of gratitude to their work. 1174
Reposted by HORGTerry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Happy Taxonomist Appreciation Day, y'all. There's undescribed biodiversity all around us! Not long ago, Brian Brown and Emily Hartop put up some malaise traps smack in the middle of Los Angeles, and right away they described 30 new species of phorid flies. mapress.com/zt/article/v...mapress.com Opportunity in our Ignorance: Urban Biodiversity Study Reveals 30 New Species and One New Nearctic Record for Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae) in Los Angeles (California, USA) | Zootaxa 2228
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Though some scholars have proposed to place this unusual micropanid in its own family, the morphological similarities to Corrugatidae are striking, though the oral hooks have atrophied almost entirely. It has been observed on "Kirby"-themed miniature food sets. 0192
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 17/03/2026This miniscule microsyntheran is one of the smallest toxodentids yet recorded. Its dential processes are nearly vestigial, but still recognizable as a toxodentid oral groove. As in other “micropanids”, the oral hooks are atrophied, possibly due to lack of serious competition in its singular niche. 1153
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 17/03/2026A trio of "micropanids" collected by field researchers from miniature bags of pretend bread products from Japan. Despite their strange appearance, multiple sightings have confirmed their status as distinct and identifiable species. 2275
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Colour morphs can be confounding! Meanwhile, revel in the mathematically true statistic that you have spotted 100% more occlupanids in Germany than the entire staff of HORG. 130
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Nestled amongst this diverse clattering of occlupanids was an acutignathid only recently described by the students of a high school science class. 0152
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 11/03/2026An occlupanological treasure trove donated to HORG, found at a recycling facility. Contained within a small ziploc bag were over 30 species, a high rate of microsyntheric diversity! Many of these species, once commonly encountered in the wild, are today mostly observed in clatterings such as these. 2257
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Excellent observation! It looks to be a very healthy specimen of Palpatophora utiliformis! On our staff retreat to Munich in 2024 we observed exactly 0.00 occlupanids during the course of our urban survey. 140
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 07/03/2026www.horg.com/horg/?page_i...horg.comMigrugibba vulpis | HORG 050
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 07/03/2026 It is possible that M. vulpis does not attach itself to a host for a great portion of its life cycle, but instead sustains itself via the proximity of other occlupanids.. It is hoped that the young occlupanologists of tomorrow will help discover more about them! 180
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 07/03/2026The students placed their discovery in the established genus Migrugibba ("little bumps"), and gave it the species name of vulpis ("fox"), in honor of their school mascot. A second specimen was subsequently found in Oakland, California, in a similar diverse clattering of hoarded occlupanids. 160
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 07/03/2026The mysterious occlupanid was determined to be an Acutignathid, a family of occlupanids whose most identifiable feature (aside from their centrally-located pointed dential process) is that they almost never identified in the first place, due to the fact that they are almost never encountered. 160
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 07/03/2026While sorting through a pile of occlupanids in biology class as an introduction to taxonomy, students at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC noticed some small green occlupanids that did not fit into any of the dichotomous keys they were creating, and perhaps found an unidentified species... 13611
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Those are beautiful specimens of Paniraptor vafra, an occlupanopsid, which is a paper-formed occlupanid mimic! www.horg.com/horg/?page_i...horg.comPaniraptor vafra 060
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Though scientists have yet to find any species endemic to the continent, this heroic research is of great value to occlupanology. 0170
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Occlupanids from the South Pole. A diverse clattering of 34 specimens were delivered to HORG by field researchers Z. Mills and A. Barden, while stationed at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. It is theorized that these specimens had likely migrated from North America or New Zealand. 15315
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social · 11/01/2026They have definitely increased their range, and are now found on several continents. Shipping is certainly a factor, but it is thought some have made it to other remote locations by riding oceanic gyres... 010
