2020 May 30 evening

 

   A miscellany from Mr E.  First, a beetle that, at first sight, looks quite similar to either of two beetles photographed earlier this month :  Dichelotaurus sp. (Cantharidae),  May 5, by Rosemary Jorna,  and Grammoptera molybdica (Cerambycidae), May 17, by Mr E.    Jeremy Tatum writes:  I tried to decide which of the two is today’s beetle.  I was quite wrong!   Scott Gilmore tells us that it is another beetle from another Family!  It is Plateumaris sp., from Family Chrysomelidae, Subfamily  Donaciinae – Aquatic Leaf Beetles.

 

Plateumaris sp. (Col.: Chrysomelidae – Donaciinae)   Mr E

 

    We are grateful to Scott also for identifying a weevil photographed by Mr E, as the Obscure Root Weevil.  Here “Obscure” doesn’t mean we don’t know quite what it is – “Obscure” is its official name!

 

Obscure Root Weevil Sciopithes obscurus (Col.: Curculionidae)  Mr E

 

   Me E also photographed this crane fly (not the usual European one we see all too often).

 

Phoroctenia vittata (Dip.: Tipulidae)  Mr E

 

 

Phoroctenia vittata (Dip.: Tipulidae)  Mr E

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Eupithecia sp.

1 Nadata gibbosa 

1 Pero sp.

5 Tyria jacobaeae

1 Udea profundalis

 

   The genus Pero has five species in British Columbia, all of them variable, with the variation within each species at least as much as the variation between them, thus making identification from a photograph difficult.  We’ll leave this one as Pero sp.

 

Pero sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr