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Name the Bug # 51

By Christopher Taylor at 3/15/2011 08:19:00 pm
Only a part of the organism, I'm afraid. Is it enough for you to identify it?



Attribution (as always) to follow.

I'm currently out in the field, so I'm not sure how quickly I'll be able to reveal this one. Until then, good luck!

Update: Identity available here. Figure from here.

4 comments:

  1. Dave15 March 2011 at 22:12

    Looks like the head (antennae removed) and prothorax of a thrips (Thysanoptera). That exhausts my claim to knowledge of thrips. I think I'll ask Bruce Heming for help.

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  2. Reprobus16 March 2011 at 07:21

    Er... it's a bit of an arthropod?

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  3. Dave17 March 2011 at 04:46

    Further to my previous thripish insight, I propose that the line drawing depicts the type species (and only known specimen, at least at the time of description, a male) of Lasiothrips Moulton, 1968: L. perplexus Moulton, 1968:

    http://anic.ento.csiro.au/thrips/identifying_thrips/Lasiothrips.htm

    If this is incorrect, then all thrips look alike.

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  4. Christopher Taylor18 March 2011 at 17:48

    I'm not sure all thrips don't look alike. Nevertheless, Dave, you're exactly right, and get yourself three points.

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