#penthetria

[onenicebugperday]

@goo-helio-nite submitted: Pretty guy! Reminded me of a lovebug without the red spot, but I wasn't sure what it actually was. About half an inch or so long? Found near [removed]! (please remove)

Well-spotted as this man and love bugs are both march flies! This one, I think, is Penthetria heteroptera, which has no common name as far as I know. And it's a male! Females have a very tiny head comparatively.

[antiqueanimals]

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: vol. 2 - Insects. Written by Dr. Bernhard Grzimek. 1984.

Internet Archive

1.) Orchesella cincta

2.) Onychiurus sp.

3.) Campodea staphylinus

4.) Abax ovalis

5.) Notiophilus rufipes

6.) Penthetria holosericea

7.) Tipula scripta

8.) Red wood ant (Formica rufa)

9.) Geophilus sp.

10.) Brown Centipede (Lithobius forficatus)

11.) Polydesmus complanatus

12.) Julus sp.

13.) Glomeris marginata

14.) Pardosa palustris

15.) Nothrus silvestris

[hisj]

_Penthetria japonica_ #Penthetria #Bibionidae #Marchfly #ヒメセアカケバエ #ケバエ (総社二子山古墳) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwimwo9Az1q/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=u48dpneht9h0

[birdsbugsandbones]

Insect flight in glorious slow motion!

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Science’s ANT Lab, as part of the Evolutionay Biology & Behaviour Research Lab, has made a spectacular video about insect flight. It’s filmed in juicy slow motion and features orthopteran, coleopterans, dipterans, a hemipteran, and even some psocoptera which are little proto-hemipteran like critters.

The full species, in order of appearance:

nut/acorn weevil (Curculio sp.)

broad-nosed weevil (Asiatic oak weevil Cyrtepistomus castaneus)

Hook-faced Conehead katydid (Pyrgocorypha uncinata)

bush katydid (Scuddderia sp.)

Lesser Angle-wing (Microcentrum retinerve)

Mouse-like Barklouse (Lichenomima sp.)

common barklouse 1 (subfamily: Psocinae)

common barklouse 2 (subfamily: Psocinae)

common barklouse (Cerastipsocus venosus)

March fly (Penthetria heteropteran)

Spined Assassin Bug (Sinea sp.)

[hisj]

_Penthetria japonica_ #Penthetria #marchfly #ヒメセアカケバエ _Humulus japonicus_ #Japanese_hop male flowers #カナムグラ 雄花 メスアカケバエに似ているが、♂の胸背部も赤い。♂が飛ぶ時にメスアカケバエのように(ああ、今年の初夏は撮らなかったなァ)前脚を首に引っ掛けるのかどうかまでは確認していない。カナムグラの雄花はちょっと揺らしただけで花粉が舞い上がり、カメラが粉だらけになって往生しまっせ。次回はマリンケースに入れて撮らなあかんェ。 (郵便局)