By awild on February 8, 2010. What's this charming creature? Ten points for the first person to get the family name right, too. Tags fun Insect Links Nature arthropods insects fun Log in to post comments More like this dermaptera Log in to post comments Some kind of Ephemeroptera (mayfly) larva? Log in to post comments 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. Log in to post comments 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. Log in to post comments A Ceti Eel, the last indigenous inhabitant of Ceti Alpha 5? Log in to post comments Meinertellid? Log in to post comments 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. Log in to post comments Lepisma saccharina Log in to post comments No, I second MrILoveTheAnts. It's definitely that thing Khan put in Chekov and the other dude's ears. *shudder* Log in to post comments Oh great. My blog is attracting nerds again. :) Log in to post comments I don't know bristletail families, but I think Microcoryphia has priority over Archaeognatha for this order of insects. Log in to post comments "attracting nerds again" What do you mean, "again"? Shouldn't that be "still"? Log in to post comments No, that was something more like a doodlebug: http://images.whatsthatbug.com/images/doodlebug_trevor.jpg (antlion larva) Log in to post comments
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. Log in to post comments
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. Log in to post comments
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. Log in to post comments
No, I second MrILoveTheAnts. It's definitely that thing Khan put in Chekov and the other dude's ears. *shudder* Log in to post comments
I don't know bristletail families, but I think Microcoryphia has priority over Archaeognatha for this order of insects. Log in to post comments
"attracting nerds again" What do you mean, "again"? Shouldn't that be "still"? Log in to post comments
No, that was something more like a doodlebug: http://images.whatsthatbug.com/images/doodlebug_trevor.jpg (antlion larva) Log in to post comments
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*
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"?
No, that was something more like a doodlebug:
http://images.whatsthatbug.com/images/doodlebug_trevor.jpg
(antlion larva)