Unknown Little Flying Insect
Jun 14, 2020 10:21:02 #
This is a tiny flying insect that I came across along our fence line that I brought in for a 5x magnification focus stacking session. I do not know what species it is however it's proboscis is quite large for the insects size.
Jun 14, 2020 10:39:23 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
This is a tiny flying insect that I came across along our fence line that I brought in for a 5x magnification focus stacking session. I do not know what species it is however it's proboscis is quite large for the insects size.
love those eyes!
Jun 14, 2020 10:53:10 #
tinusbum wrote:
love those eyes!
Thanks, Tinusbum. My best guess is that it is some type of Assassin Bug for the proboscis looks like it was made for stabbing and it is not the same type as I see on my Stink Bugs.
Jun 14, 2020 11:15:56 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
This is a tiny flying insect that I came across along our fence line that I brought in for a 5x magnification focus stacking session. I do not know what species it is however it's proboscis is quite large for the insects size.
May I post that on another forum I go to? A place where people like to post pictures of bugs and talk about them. Someone there may know what it is.
Jun 14, 2020 12:38:48 #
JustJill wrote:
May I post that on another forum I go to? A place where people like to post pictures of bugs and talk about them. Someone there may know what it is.
I 'found' that site a while back.
Lots of nice work.
My reply there. Not much help, I'm afraid.
Bill
Jun 14, 2020 15:26:37 #
JustJill wrote:
May I post that on another forum I go to? A place where people like to post pictures of bugs and talk about them. Someone there may know what it is.
Thanks and yes, please do. I'm quite curious to know.
Jun 14, 2020 17:34:32 #
Jun 14, 2020 18:03:45 #
Hemipteran. Looks plant feeding rather than predatory. Maybe family Miridae. But I need to see the whole thing from the top side, to maybe know.
Jun 14, 2020 19:24:05 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
Hemipteran. Looks plant feeding rather than predatory. Maybe family Miridae. But I need to see the whole thing from the top side, to maybe know.
Mark, this image is far from what I would like it to be however it does show the lateral view of the unknown flying insect. Perhaps this will be of help to identify it.
Jun 14, 2020 20:56:44 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
This is a tiny flying insect that I came across along our fence line that I brought in for a 5x magnification focus stacking session. I do not know what species it is however it's proboscis is quite large for the insects size.
While no help to me towards ID, this shows some features of note, or lack of.
Not an Ambush or Assassinn, no raptoral front legs. And the beak wrong. Does not fold into a 'notch'.
Some plant bugs scavenge dead arthropods and eat plant sap. That may be the reason for the oversized beak.
Trouble you for a top view?
No help for me, but maybe Mark.
'Nite, Gary.
Bill
Jun 14, 2020 21:08:16 #
newtoyou wrote:
While no help to me towards ID, this shows some features of note, or lack of.
Not an Ambush or Assassinn, no raptoral front legs. And the beak wrong. Does not fold into a 'notch'.
Some plant bugs scavenge dead arthropods and eat plant sap. That may be the reason for the oversized beak.
Trouble you for a top view?
No help for me, but maybe Mark.
'Nite, Gary.
Bill
Not an Ambush or Assassinn, no raptoral front legs. And the beak wrong. Does not fold into a 'notch'.
Some plant bugs scavenge dead arthropods and eat plant sap. That may be the reason for the oversized beak.
Trouble you for a top view?
No help for me, but maybe Mark.
'Nite, Gary.
Bill
Thanks, Bill. It's feet are tiny with very small claws. It is quite small in overall size, about the size of a Ladybug in length yet not round in shape. The beak is very long for its size and it was not folded under as I find in the other True Bugs that I come across.
I'll see if I can stage it for a top view and I thrive on every opportunity to be behind the camera.
Jun 14, 2020 23:07:20 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
Hemipteran. Looks plant feeding rather than predatory. Maybe family Miridae. But I need to see the whole thing from the top side, to maybe know.
Mark, this is the ventral view of the little insect with the stabbing beak. It is about the size of a grain of rice if that helps to identify it.
Jun 14, 2020 23:13:34 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
It is likely its a leaf bug in the family Miridae. Here is a bunch of thumbnails of Miridae in BG. Have fun! :)
https://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=Miridae&search=Search
Before getting into that, check the wing membrane from the top. You don't need to photograph it. Miridae has a distinctive 'double loop' vein on the membrane of each wing. The vein is marked in blue in the picture.
Jun 14, 2020 23:54:48 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
It is likely its a leaf bug in the family Miridae. Here is a bunch of thumbnails of Miridae in BG. Have fun! :)
https://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=Miridae&search=Search
Before getting into that, check the wing membrane from the top. You don't need to photograph it. Miridae has a distinctive 'double loop' vein on the membrane of each wing. The vein is marked in blue in the picture.
https://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=Miridae&search=Search
Before getting into that, check the wing membrane from the top. You don't need to photograph it. Miridae has a distinctive 'double loop' vein on the membrane of each wing. The vein is marked in blue in the picture.
Thanks, Mark. I surely believe that it is one of the members of that family. I see a lot of similarities in the Bugguide photos to my little specimen. I think that when it was dispatched its proboscis came forward which made it look strange compared to other plant suckers.
Jun 15, 2020 02:35:10 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
Thanks, Mark. I surely believe that it is one of the members of that family. I see a lot of similarities in the Bugguide photos to my little specimen. I think that when it was dispatched its proboscis came forward which made it look strange compared to other plant suckers.
When many insects are killed in 90+% alcohol, they absorb enough
to cause internal pressure on the flexable membranes. A male beetle's aedeagus will evert.
Tiger beetles do. Best way to determine sex. Or catch them in flagrante delicato, in copula.
Way easier than dissection.
Simply give them a couple of hours to dry a bit before mounting.
I believe Mirids may be a link from predacious water bugs to Reduviidae and other predacious terrestrial true bugs. Evolution at work.
That might explain the large proboscis.
Bill
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