Monday Night Mystery 13 Comments / fun, Insect Links, Nature / By myrmecos Spread the loveWhat’s this charming creature? Ten points for the first person to get the family name right, too.
Yonatan February 8, 2010 at 9:29 pm It’s a bristletail, so Archaeognatha, and I’m going to guess Machilidae but now that I’ve said it it’ll probably end up being Meinertellidae. Reply
The Geek In Question February 8, 2010 at 9:34 pm Nice one. I got hung up on the three tails and what my brain saw as “gills”…and thought the pic was snapped in an aquarium. Reply
MrIloveTheAnts February 8, 2010 at 9:34 pm A Ceti Eel, the last indigenous inhabitant of Ceti Alpha 5? Reply
Pete Yeeles February 9, 2010 at 12:00 am Lack of scales on the antennae suggests Meinertellidae. Just spent a few months going through pitfall trap samples, and it was surprising how many of these popped up as bycatch. Reply
Nat February 9, 2010 at 7:49 am No, I second MrILoveTheAnts. It’s definitely that thing Khan put in Chekov and the other dude’s ears. *shudder* Reply
jtrager February 10, 2010 at 9:44 am No, that was something more like a doodlebug: http://images.whatsthatbug.com/images/doodlebug_trevor.jpg (antlion larva) Reply
Ted C. MacRae February 9, 2010 at 9:02 am I don’t know bristletail families, but I think Microcoryphia has priority over Archaeognatha for this order of insects. Reply
Tim Eisele February 9, 2010 at 9:04 am “attracting nerds again” What do you mean, “again”? Shouldn’t that be “still”? Reply
dermaptera
Some kind of Ephemeroptera (mayfly) larva?
It’s a bristletail, so Archaeognatha, and I’m going to guess Machilidae but now that I’ve said it it’ll probably end up being Meinertellidae.
Nice one. I got hung up on the three tails and what my brain saw as “gills”…and thought the pic was snapped in an aquarium.
A Ceti Eel, the last indigenous inhabitant of Ceti Alpha 5?
Meinertellid?
Lack of scales on the antennae suggests Meinertellidae.
Just spent a few months going through pitfall trap samples, and it was surprising how many of these popped up as bycatch.
Lepisma saccharina
No, I second MrILoveTheAnts.
It’s definitely that thing Khan put in Chekov and the other dude’s ears.
*shudder*
No, that was something more like a doodlebug:
http://images.whatsthatbug.com/images/doodlebug_trevor.jpg
(antlion larva)
Oh great. My blog is attracting nerds again. 🙂
I don’t know bristletail families, but I think Microcoryphia has priority over Archaeognatha for this order of insects.
“attracting nerds again”
What do you mean, “again”? Shouldn’t that be “still”?