Talk:Tock-tock

This article was nominated for deletion on 10 August 2009. The result of the discussion was unilaterally speedily replaced with a disambiguation page.

Tock-Tock

The tock-tock is a beetle. This shouldn't redirect here. Should this page (and Tock tock even exist?)

A Tock-tock from South Africa

- Gallery photo/text taken from Darkling beetle.

207.13.167.2 (talk) 19:09, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

According to The National Library and Information System Authority of Trinidad and Tobago, "tock tock" is another name for claves. While a percussion instrument, claves are certainly not membranophones, so the redirect would be inappropriate.

This book states that tocktock is the name of the Psammondes striatus beetle. Searching the scientific name brings up this UC Berkeley site, which gives the common name as the Striped Toktokkie Beetle. A 2001 article in American Zoologist gives the common name as tok-tok beetle. Since it's a South African beetle, toktokkie or tok-tok seem more correct.

There is currently no Wikipedia article on P. striatus, so nothing to redirect to on that front. I suppose the page could redirect to the claves article, but it doesn't seem to me to be a term in wide enough use to warrant it. I would favor deleting the page. Some jerk on the Internet (talk) 16:49, 10 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose the page could redirect to the claves article,