2020 April 28

 

   Mr E has recently been photographing all sorts of creatures that are posing an identification challenge for us.  The first one is relatively easy.  It’s a pillbug.  Since it’s not, of course, a bug, it must be spelled as one word – pillbug – not as two ( “pill bug”).  It’s an isopod crustacean.

 

Pillbug Armadillidium vulgare (Isopoda:  Armadillidiidae)  Mr E

 

   The next two are, first, a centipede, and then a termite of the soldier caste.  Thanks to Claudia Coploy for help with the identification of these.

 

Centipede (We think Lithobiomorpha:  maybe Lithobiidae)  Mr E

 

Termites used to belong to the Order Isoptera, but they are now joined with cockroaches in a new Order Blattodea.

 

Termite Reticulitermes hesperus (Blat.: Rhinotermitidae)   Mr E

 

   And here are two amazing photographs of a crane fly emerging from its pupa.  It looks very like Tipula paludosa, though it’s hard to be sure until it has hardened and achieved its final colours.  Since it is a fly, crane fly is written as two separate words (not “cranefly”). 

 

Crane Fly.  Probably Tipula paludosa (Dip.: Tipulidae)  Mr E

 

Crane Fly.  Probably Tipula paludosa (Dip.: Tipulidae)  Mr E

 

      Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Acleris sp

1 Egira rubrica

7 Eupithecias

3 Melanolophia imitata

1 Orthosia praeses

1 Orthosia hibisci

2 Perizoma curvilinea

1 Phyllodesma americana (still the same one)

3 Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli

1 Xanthorhoe defensaria

 

Phyllodesma americana (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Egira rubrica (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

 

 

Orthosia hibisci (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

Orthosia praeses (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

 

 

Acleris sp.(Lep.: Tortricidae) Jochen Möhr

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  This pretty little chequered beetle paid me a visit in my apartment this morning:

Enoclerus eximius (Col.: Cleridae) Jeremy Tatum

 

   Mr E sends photographs of Adela trigrapha.  These used to be in Incurvariidae, but are now moved to a Family of their own – Adelidae.

 

Adela trigrapha (Lep.: Adelidae) Mr E

 

Adela trigrapha (Lep.: Adelidae) Mr E

 

Adela trigrapha (Lep.: Adelidae) Mr E