Tonight’s challenge, which I photographed right here in Illinois, is a straight-up identification.
What is it?
I will award points to the first person to correctly guess the family (4 pts) and the species (6 pts). I’ll also throw in bonus points for labeling the veins, at 1 point per vein.
The cumulative points winner for the month of November will win their choice of 1) any 8×10-sized print from my insect photography galleries, or 2) a guest post here on Myrmecos.
Good luck!
A personal blog by Illinois-based biologist and photographer Alex Wild.
What ? 8:05 and not a single guess yet ?
Twitter tells me everyone’s drinking beer at ESA in Knoxville.
LOL
If no one shows up soon I’m gonna go ahead and award you all the points by default.
Family: Mesopsocidae?
You interpreted the Twitter feed correctly. Entomology 2012 tweetup ftw!
Surprisingly few tweets during the tweet-up, it seems.
My first impression is cicada wing, but given the blog theme, perhaps a queen ant?
I know cicada is wrong, assuming this was taken in the last 2 months.
And the only insect I’ve seen in the last week around here is the preying mantis I ran into today, though I didn’t take advantage of the warm weekend, either.
Appendicular vein of an Asilidae (Efferia)? I wish I was at ESA drinking beers…
Bombyliidae: Xenox tigrinus
Longitudinal veins from the top right are R1 in extreme corner, R2+3, R4+5 (Rs before R2+3 splits off at left and splitting into R4 and R5 at right), M1, M2, and CuA1. Crossveins are r-m at top left and dm-cu closing cell dm.
I am guessing a Dobsonfly.
Family: Corydalidae,
Genus: Corydalus
Psocoptera, it feels like it.
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