Subject: Extinct trilobite found!
Geographic location of the bug: Oklahoma
Date: 06/12/2019
Time: 04:58 PM EDT
Your letter to the bugman: Found this out by our pool. I realize it’s not really a trilobite, but it looks like one. Maybe an ant lion?
How you want your letter signed: Gage
Dear Gage,
We believe this is a Beetle larva, and we also believe we might have a similar image in our archives, but we cannot remember its identity. Daniel is currently in Ohio, using pirated and very slow internet connections, and research is time consuming. We are posting your marvelous submission as Unidentified and we hope our readership will come to our rescue and provide comments as to its identity. We would not rule out that it might be some species of Woodlouse (see BugGuide). Can you perhaps provide an image of the ventral surface or tell us how many legs it has?
Update: Owlfly Larva
Thanks to a comment from Cesar Crash, we researched Owlfly larvae on BugGuide and located this matching image. Mystery solved.
I think it’s an antlion.
Oh, maybe owlfly larva, but still Neuroptera.
Thanks Cesar,
I will look for some matching images on BugGuide.