Monday Night Mystery 13 Comments / fun, Insect Links, Nature / By myrmecos What’s this charming creature? Ten points for the first person to get the family name right, too. Tweet Share Google Plus Share Whatsapp reddit Save
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”?