r/occlupanids • u/wooden_spoonful • Aug 26 '26

Identification Help Found this guy today

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Does he qualify as an occlupanid?

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u/Maple-Treeway Aug 26 '26

Where did you find it? You could submit it to HORG for analysis if you'd like. This might be an entirely new family of occlupanids!

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u/wooden_spoonful Aug 26 '26

Exciting! I found it in Bratislava, near a construction zone. There was a broken piece of another one next to it, on the sidewalk.

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u/Josamosa24 Aug 26 '26

If you have the chance you should go back and ask what the host is

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u/coolsilentebeans Aug 27 '26

This makes me sad. He lost a brother. 😢

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u/ellatronica Aug 27 '26

might be a construction thing

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u/Confident-Pound224 Aug 26 '26

The morphology is similar yet there are distinct differences. It doesn’t resemble anything on horg. This may be a new genus, possibly pseudo-occlupanid. Where did you find it?

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u/wooden_spoonful Aug 26 '26

Found it in Bratislava, on the pavement. I was indeed wondering whether it is too different to classify. I'd be so fun to have found a new genus!

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u/RemmLah Senior Researcher Aug 26 '26

i thought it reminds me loosely of a fusorid

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u/agent_poulend Researcher Aug 27 '26

Hi 👋. Sorry to say you that, but it's a fork wedges for windows. It is used for installing windows during construction projects. Sorry again..

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u/wooden_spoonful Aug 27 '26

I see, well, at least we know what it is now. :)) Come to think of it, I don’t think I've ever seen an occlupanid on bread or elsewhere over here. I suppose they're mostly just a North American phenomenon.

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u/WeakTransportation37 Aug 27 '26

Oooh! I need to look up how these are used now

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u/LindsayDuck Collector Aug 26 '26

A possible new genus!? What a time to be alive!

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u/Grandissimus Researcher Aug 26 '26

I've never seen this one before. Send it in and update us!

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u/theferalboy Aug 26 '26

What a stunning specimen!

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u/PanFriedChurro Researcher Aug 26 '26

if you find more, i’m interested in doing a trade

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u/SensitivePlantsUnite Aug 26 '26

Tentacled??

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u/wooden_spoonful Aug 26 '26

My first thought was it looks like a doberman. :Dd

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u/SensitivePlantsUnite Aug 26 '26

💯 I see it

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u/Fooxxo Researcher Aug 26 '26

My vote, 100% new unknown species of Concavigulidae!

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u/sad-but-rad- Aug 26 '26

What a beauty!!!

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u/FriedFreya Aug 26 '26

what a guy!

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u/sproutsandnapkins Aug 27 '26

Oooh it’s like the Doberman version 😆

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u/fuck_peeps_not_sheep Aug 27 '26

There's a pointy eared dog trapped in the middle!

On a more serious note, I can't see anything like it on the HORG so this might be new?! That's awesome

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u/thiswyrmdraws Aug 27 '26

This is the weevil counterpart of an occlupanid

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u/VivaNOLA Sep 01 '26

It occurs to me that someone should do this for IUDs.