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Post by nrohrbach on May 7, 2018 5:58:22 GMT
I was given these bugs as a gift and can't seem to find out what they are. Can someone please tell me what the names of these bugs are? Thanks for any help!
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Post by nrohrbach on May 7, 2018 6:21:31 GMT
Here's the other bug I was given.
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 7, 2018 9:03:42 GMT
Where are they from? A locality of origin is always useful in helping to identify specimens correctly.
The second specimen looks like a Guitar beetle, Mormolyce phyllodes, but I'm not certain as my speciality is one family of butterflies. The first one is some sort of water bug (Hemiptera), but I don't know much about them. Someone else can probably give a better identification, particularly if you tell us where they come from.
Adam.
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Post by jmg on May 7, 2018 9:31:31 GMT
First pic : it's probably a Belostomatidae; see the page : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belostomatidae About the second pic, here is: Mormolyce castelnaudi DEYROLLE, 1862, from Sabah (Borneo, Malaysia), Sukau locality near the Kinabatangan river : I can't tell more, I'm not hemipterist or coleopterist ! And, as written by Adam Cotton, it's always difficult to identify an insect without the geographical origin.
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Post by ciervo on May 7, 2018 15:48:54 GMT
View AttachmentI was given these bugs as a gift and can't seem to find out what they are. Can someone please tell me what the names of these bugs are? Thanks for any help! Water scorpion
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Post by nrohrbach on May 7, 2018 20:33:55 GMT
Thank you for your help everyone! I didn't know the origin for these bug as they were a gift and I'm pretty sure my friend just ordered them from a website. It's nice knowing what these little critters are though so thanks very much!
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Post by isidro on May 10, 2018 20:13:43 GMT
The first one is almost sure Nepa rubra, certainly Nepidae and not Belostomatidae. For the second, I don't know why jmg told Mormolyce castelnaudi instead the typical Mormolyce phylloides that wisely purposed Adam, all Mormolyce are very similar but any that is not M. phylloides is a rarity in commerce while M. phylloides is commonly seen.
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