duckydoty 0 Report post Posted June 5, 2005 Was wondering what kind of bug this is? Sorry I dont know to much about identification. An uneducated guess for me would be some sort of stonefly but I could be way off. Any help would be apprectiated. Duckydoty Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steeldrifter 0 Report post Posted June 5, 2005 Looks like a big stone to me, the four wings are a tradmark of a stone fly. Actually looks like the salmon flies of out west, do you live out west? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Graham 0 Report post Posted June 5, 2005 My guess would be a moth, becasue of the funky looking antennae. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steeldrifter 0 Report post Posted June 5, 2005 Well I take back the salmon fly guess, Hers a pic of one, simuliar but wings and antennea are different. http://www.worleybuggerflyco.com/insectide.../salmon_fly.htm I have never seen a moth like that, but I dunno , sure Taxon will tell us Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
duckydoty 0 Report post Posted June 5, 2005 I live in Missouri and found it last night. It has pinchers for a mouth. Duckydoty Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brewer 0 Report post Posted June 5, 2005 dobsonfly ?? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
duckydoty 0 Report post Posted June 5, 2005 Here is a picture I found of a female adult dobsonfly. Only the anteas are different, but the rest looks the same The way the wings look and lay and they a about 2 inches long also. Duckydoty Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taxon 0 Report post Posted June 5, 2005 duckydoty- I believe Brewer got it right. You appear to have an adult dobsonfly (or fishfly), probably a female. Both are members of the order, Megaloptera. The antennae on your specimen are quite unusual, and I suspect it may be a key to more detailed identification. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
duckydoty 0 Report post Posted June 5, 2005 Thanks Toxin. I believe Brewer has it also, Its the antena that throw me off now. I've done about 3 hours of searching on the internet and keep coming up with the same as the picture I posted where the dobson fly is on the leaf. Duckydoty Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taxon 0 Report post Posted June 6, 2005 Ducky- It appears to be a Spring Fishfly (Chauliodes pectinicornis). http://cedarcreek.umn.edu/insects/newslide...002002chaub.jpg Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
duckydoty 0 Report post Posted June 6, 2005 Thanks again Toxin, I added Cedar Creek U. to my favorites for future reference Duckydoty Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
appalachian angler (tn.) 0 Report post Posted June 7, 2005 I saw one just like the original specimen here in east tenn. on my father -in-laws barn near dusk. His place is within a couple hundred yards of two farm ponds, and a quarter mile from a small creek. Mine had the moth-like antennae too. AA Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Redleg 0 Report post Posted June 7, 2005 Looks like a Sedge to me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sjo Crapels 0 Report post Posted June 7, 2005 I'm pretty sure it's a Lepidoptera Cossus cossus. That is a member of the family off Butterflies. In Holland we call it Wilgehoutvlinder, translated something like Willowwood Butterfly. I've looked it up in an insect guide, and there are more Butterflies with these punky antennae, but in my opinion the Cossus cossus comes closest. Sjo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Troutnut 0 Report post Posted June 25, 2005 Taxon definitely got the genus. It's Chauliodes. Seems to be a male. I'm not sure if it's Chauliodes pecticornis or Chauliodes rastricornis, though (it is one of those two). Someone brought a C. rastricornis specimen into a local fly shop a couple weeks ago and they asked me to identify it. I was stumped at first but with my microscopes and key information I was able to figure out mine was definitely rastricornis. Yours looks more like that than the pecticornis specimen in Taxon's link, but it's hard to be sure without getting it under my microscope or macro lens. It's a little more difficult with these pictures, although for someone who professes not to know insects well you definitely did a great job providing the right kind of angles and views, much better than most. It's just not quite close-up enough to be sure of the species. Both species are called fishflies, and their genus is closely related to the Megalopteran genus Nigronia, the dobsonflies/hellgrammites. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites