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Treehopper from Peru

On February 6, 2011 · Category: Aphids, Scale Insects, Leafhoppers, and Tree Hoppers Tagged With: Unidentified · 2 Comments

Treehopper from Peru
Location: Shima, near Satipo, Junin, Peru
February 5, 2011 2:43 pm
Can anyone please identify this treehopper found in central Peru?
Signature: Peter Bruce-Jones

Treehopper

Hi Peter,
This is one beautiful Treehopper in the family Membracidae. We have a vague memory of having received an image of this species, or a very similar species, in the past. We will attempt to search our archive to provide a species identification. Just a note that if you provide a comment on this posting, you will be notified in the future if anyone comments or provides an identification. We did locate a matching photo on Corbis Images, but the species is not identified.

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Unknown Moth Caterpillar from Singapore

On February 3, 2011 · Category: moth caterpillars Tagged With: Unidentified · Add Comment

id a caterpillar
Location: Singapore
February 3, 2011 8:36 am
I was walking in the Singapore MacRitchie reservoir, and foaund a large family of these caterpillars. i have no knowledge about that, but we wonder what it will become in a few weeks?
Signature: Philippe

Unknown Caterpillar

Dear Philippe,
We tried to identify this social Caterpillar without much luck. It will eventually metamorphose into a moth. The Singapore Butterfly Interest Group website has no matching images, but it wouldn’t be much help if they did because none of the Moth Caterpillars there are identified. The social feeding pattern should help in the identification, and knowing the food plant might also be of tremendous assistance.

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Assassin Bug from Guyana

On February 1, 2011 · Category: Assassin Bugs Tagged With: Unidentified · 1 Comment

Strange bug from Guyana
Location: Corentyne, Berbice, Guyana, South America
February 1, 2011 7:27 am
Hi bugman,
I have been living in Guyana for the past 6 years and recently came across this bug on our window screen. We live on the coast of Guyana in Berbice,South America. When I touched the bug, he grabbed me with his leg and I quickly pulled away as I notices a sharp spike protruding from the front of his head. Then I noticed a clear liquid coming from the end of the spike. Just wanted to know what is living around the house.
Signature: kozman

Assassin Bug

Dear kozman,
This is one impressive looking Assassin Bug in the family Reduviidae. Assassin Bugs are predators that use their piercing mouthparts to suck fluids from their prey, and we have never seen an Assassin Bug with a more formidable looking beak. The raptorial front legs are quite distinctive as well and these physical characteristics should make a species identification relatively easy. We can predict that the bite of this particular Assassin Bug is most likely quite painful, and we just posted a letter regarding the bite of a different species of Assassin Bug. One group of Assassin Bugs, the Kissing Bugs or Blood Sucking Conenose Bugs in the genus Triatoma (see BugGuide), prey upon warm blooded hosts. In the tropics, the bite of the Kissing Bug is known to spread Chagas Disease. Your Assassin Bug is not one of the Blood Sucking Conenose Bugs, we we would advise utmost caution in handling it nonetheless.

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Unknown Caterpillar from Zimbabwe

On February 1, 2011 · Category: moth caterpillars Tagged With: Unidentified · Add Comment

Caterpillar
Location: Zimbabwe
January 31, 2011 9:56 am
Hi we found this caterpillar in Harare, Zimbabwe, dying to know what it is. Its about 9cm long. Hope you can help.
Signature: Dana Lister

Unknown Caterpillar

Dear Dana,
We don’t recognize your caterpillar, which we believe will metamorphose into a moth and not a butterfly, but we love your photo. We will post your letter and images and continue to search for the identity of this stunning creature, and we hope that our readership will assist us in scouring the internet for a possible identification.

Unknown Caterpillar

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Unknown Clearwing Moth from Thailand

On January 31, 2011 · Category: Clearwings Tagged With: Unidentified · Add Comment

Unknown moth?
Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand
January 31, 2011 9:29 am
The two different species or male and female of the same species were taken in late January in our dry season at 800 meters. They were photographed at the same small pool on consecutive days at around 1 pm. The pool was formed by a depression in granite rock about 10 feet from a larger pool fed by a small waterfall. The area around is wooded but this spot is in a 75 foot clearing due to rock. I’ve looked everywhere on the web and nothing is even close. I’m guessing Arctiinae. Any suggestions?
Signature: Dave Hutchison

Clearwing Moth from Thailand

Dear Dave,
Though there is a group of Arctiids that mimic wasps, there is another family, Sesiidae, that are also wasp mimics, though the family is collectively known as Clearwings. There are many species in this family that exhibit marked sexual dimorphism, so much so that males and females look like different species. Many Sesiids have larvae that are borers in the stems and roots of woody plants. You can see many examples of North American Sesiids on BugGuide.

Clearwing Moth from Thailand

We are going to do a quick search of the internet to see if we have any luck with this species, but we have a time constraint this morning as we will be closing the offices and not responding to any additional letters while we are at our day job.

Clearwing Moth from Thailand

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Wood Moth from Tasmania, not Ghost Moth

On January 30, 2011 · Category: Ghost Moths and Wood Moths Tagged With: Unidentified, WTB? Down Under · 6 Comments

What’s this bug?
Location: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
January 30, 2011 5:44 am
Hi, thanks for the website. I snapped this very large moth in my back yard in suburban Hobart, Tasmania, the coldest (and island) state of Australia. We are in the middle of summer and it was a warmish night of about 15 degrees celcius. I have not been able to find any information online about this moth except that it resembles many of the hepialidae family. I have seen one of a similar size in the bush but this sighting was a first around the city. Hobart is surrounded by mountains & bush so the wilderness is never very far away from suburbia.
Signature: Bug info

Wood Moth we believe

Dear Bug info,
Our first impression, because of the long narrow wings, was that this was a Hawkmoth in the family Sphingidae, but after a brief moment, we revised our opinion in alignment with your speculation. We agree that this interesting specimen resembles the Ghost Moths or Swift Moths in the family Hepialidae, but like you, we have not been able to find any matching images on Csiro which includes this wonderful Hepialidae slide show. We could not find a match on the Moths of Australia Hepialidae page either. We then researched our original impression, but there are no matching images on the Moths of Australia Sphingidae page either.

Wood Moth

The large body of this specimen inclines us to believe it is a female full of eggs. When Daniel was researching his book, The Curious World of Bugs, a Ghost Moth from Australia was discovered to hold the record for the most eggs laid by an insect that was not social since Ants, Bees and Termites can lay millions of eggs over the course of the queen’s life. Here is that bit of information courtesy of the Book of Insect Records published online by the University of Florida: “An Australian ghost moth, Trictena atripalpis (see Moths of Australia), is the insect with the highest recorded fecundity among nonsocial species. One female was reported to lay 29,100 eggs, and when dissected, 15,000 fully developed eggs were found in the ovaries.“ We remain puzzled by this identification and we hope a reader will come to our assistance.

Wood Moth Moth

Update with Identification
We just received three comments from a reader who supplied this link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/psykepinky/3347804907/ of a Wood Moth that looks identical to this amazing creature. When we finish preparing Beoff Bourgenon (or however you spell Beef Burgandy in French), we will update this posting better.

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Spiny Hornworm Caterpillar from South Africa: Lophostethus dumolinii

On January 29, 2011 · Category: Hornworms Tagged With: Unidentified · Add Comment

Green caterpillar south africa
Location: Mpumalanga, South Africa
January 29, 2011 7:14 am
We found this green caterpillar on our tree outside. It is approx. 100mm long x 25mm thick. ictures are with a large bic lighter to illustrate size. We would really like to know what kind of caterpillar it is.
Signature: Green caterpillar

Spined Hornworm from South Africa

Dear Green caterpillar,
We have not had any luck identifying your caterpillar on the World’s Largest Saturniidae Site. Though we are confident that this is a Silkmoth Caterpillar in the family Saturniidae, the species identification is proving elusive

Sphingidae Caterpillar: Lophostethus dumolinii

We hope that our email to Bill Oehlke will provide an identification. Can you provide the name of the tree upon which this caterpillar was discovered?

Spiny HornwormCaterpillar from South Africa

Bill Oehlke provides a surprising revelation
Daniel,
I think it is not one of the Saturniidae. I remember being very surprised one time to learn that some of the South African Sphingidae have spines. I am pretty sure it is one of the Sphingidae, but I cannot remember which one.
Bill Oehlke

Ed. Note: We will begin searching this new possibility.

Bill Oehlke finds the ID
Hi Daniel,
The larva is one of the Sphingidae. It is Lophostethus dumolinii. Can you get me a larger image of the larva and the photographer’s email
Bill Oehlke

Thanks so much Bill. We can provide you with the contact information of the person who submitted the images. They may have higher resolution files, but we do not.

Ed. Note: We have not had any luck finding images of the caterpillar online, but Biodiversity Explorer identifies Lophostethus umolinii as the Arrow Sphinx Hawkmoth and has an image of the adult moth.

Arrow Sphinx

Dear Daniel,
Thank you for all the trouble you have gone to to find the species of the caterpillar I really appreciate it. Attached are larger images of the caterpillar as found in the tree. I am not too sure what the tree is but will try to look it up in the indigenous south African directory as it is an indigenous plant. I had to move it to another tree as it was near our animals which would disturb it – I have just checked and it has made a home in the new tree and looks like it is getting ready to cocoon (if that is what you call it). Hopefully I can follow its progress and we can see the end result.
Thanks
Jeni

Arrow Sphinx

Hi again Jeni,
Thanks so much for sending the higher resolution images of the Arrow Sphinx. By clicking on the images to enlarge them, our readership can compare the difference in quality. The caudal horn is much more apparent in these higher resolution images.

Arrow Sphinx

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Unknown Moth from Costa Rica

On January 25, 2011 · Category: Geometrid Moths Tagged With: Unidentified · 4 Comments

Costa Rican Geometrid/Bad-wing? Moth by La Paz Waterfall Garden
Location: Costa Rica
January 23, 2011 12:54 am
Hi. I shot a photo of a moth last May (May 10, 2010) of a moth which reminded me of a geometrid in shape,or very similar to a Dyspteris but with metallic Blue/Green forewing and black hindwing. The trailing edge of all 4 wings is cream colored. The body is ”fuzzy” and orange and the antennae are whiplike, not feathery. It was located on a railing near a light close to where I was eating breakfast on the ”Orchid Terrace” Restaurant. The surrounding environs were open field and secondary cloud forest with an altitude of about 1400-1600 meters above sea level. I was at La Paz Waterfall Gardens. Their Lat and Long are:Latitude 10.12.6.28 N
Longitude 84.9.41.23 W
Signature: Joyous C, Long Island, NY

Unknown Moth from Costa Rica

Dear Joyous,
We haven’t the time to research this at the moment, but perhaps one of our readers will provide an answer and comment while we are at work today.

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Treehopper from Peru

Unknown Moth Caterpillar from Singapore

Assassin Bug from Guyana

Unknown Caterpillar from Zimbabwe

Unknown Clearwing Moth from Thailand

Wood Moth from Tasmania, not Ghost Moth

Spiny Hornworm Caterpillar from South Africa: Lophostethus dumolinii

Unknown Moth from Costa Rica

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