2020 October 21

 

   Ian Cooper has recently been photographing a nematoceran fly at Colquitz River Park. Here are three of his photographs.  I am not certain (writes Jeremy Tatum) whether they are all the same species.  The first two have a pronounced pattern on the wing, which I can’t see on the third photograph, although that may be because of the strongly reflected light.  I have been thinking either Limoniinae (sometimes regarded as a full Family, Limoniidae, sometimes treated as a Subfamily of Tipulidae) or Trichoceridae (Winter Gnats).   The insect in the third photograph below clearly has three ocelli on the top of its head.  I think that rules out Tipulidae, and so makes it Trichoceridae, a Winter Gnat.

 

Tipulidae-Limoniinae?   Trichoceridae?   Ian Cooper

Tipulidae-Limoniinae?   Trichoceridae?   Ian Cooper

 

Probably Trichoceridae    Ian Cooper

 

Male Common Earwig  Forficula auricularia (Derm.: Forficulidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Porcellio scaber (Isopoda:  Porcellionidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Dark-bodied Glass Snail Oxychilus draparnaudi (Pul.: Daubebariidae)  Ian Cooper