Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Please help to translate from Chinese.
#1
Please help to my work.
Can anybody help with translation of the Distribution part of the species description?
Thanks in advance.
#2
Sorry, I know how to handle a Chinese dictionary but this would take me more than a day (maybe even two). Time I just don't have.

Loepa?
#3
autotranslator!
http://www.google.ru/language_tools?hl=ru
from Chinese to English
#4
Sorry, I can not use autotranslator because I am not able to rewrite Chinese words. I do not need full translation of the description. I d like to know DISTRIBUTION of the species in Chinese Provinces.
Best regards.
#5
Beijing, Heilongjiang, Hebei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Sichuan
#6
Dear proctoss, thanks for idea. I have found names of Provinces in two languiges here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China
I hope I am correct:
? Běijīng (北京市
? Héběi (河北
? Hēilóngjiāng ((657;(857;江
? Jiāngxī (江西
? Sìchuān (四川
? Zhèjiāng (浙江
#7
Paul, thank you!
I hope you have not spent the whole night for this job.
And now I know how to use smileys!
#8
I did not spend the whole night translating, I also used wikipedia.

#9
Input of the Chinese symbols isn't a problem when support of the corresponding locale settings (IME, etc.) is installed in Windows 2000 or higher (or the Language Kit in MacOS), but one is supposed to know at least the basics of Chinese... It's much easier with Japanese, you can enter kana symbols and choose the correct substitute from a drop-down list (of course some patience and accuracy still needed...)
#10
and one day, it China turns the first potency.... we must know Mandarin!


#11
Kindly translated by our member loepa:
The wing?s length 11-15mm. the down-lip feeler is white-gray color, and curved toward up; the second segment is longer, the end segment is half length of the second segment; the lipidos hairs on head and thorax are coarse and brown-gray colored; antenna with gray and brown alternate round hairs. Front wings are dark brown or brown-gray colored, 9-10 white-yellow hook shaped line on costa, the hook shaped line on interior angle is crescent, sometimes it is round; 4 parallel arc shaped lines are white-yellow or white-gray colored, the side of the line is deep brown, conspicuous comparison; top anal stripe is not conspicuous, 2 gray lines are near to anal angle. The rear wings are black-brown colored, the side hairs are gray brown colored. The outer genitals of male: deep depression on middle part of sacculus, many hairs and thorns on cucullus, costa are plain and straight; phallus is thick and straight, with several pieces of phallus needle. The outer genitals of the female: valvula is long and thin, copulatory opening is small, half of the duct becomes chitin. 2 pieces of protuberance are long and para-flat. Egg is light yellow and translucent, flat oval-shaped. Its larva?s body is about 8mm long. Head is light yellow brown colored, single eye area is deep brown, pronotum is light yellow colored, translucent, Sometimes there is cloud shaped light brown line. Epiproct is not conspicuous. Its cocoon with the length of 0.5~0.9mm, white. Its pupa 6mm long, with 6~8 buttock thorns.

#12
Impressive (feel myself rather ignorant...)
#13
Many thanks! Very interesting to compare with other descriptions. E.g., Front wings are light-brownish-ocherous to dark-brownish-red in the Russian litrerature.
#14
Black wrote:
Impressive (feel myself rather ignorant...)
Feel relieved: one cannot beat a Chinese a his own game.

#15

I forgot that Cyrillic symbols look foreign enough for many, too...
#16
Oh, so long thread. I feel guilty myself, therefore look on this moth finally.)