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 Very long thin Brazilian bug...
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| bonitin |
Posted on 13-12-2010 12:14
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 Member Location: Gent, Belgium Posts: 348 Joined: 11.10.07 |
This Brazilian bug I met a couple of times at nighttime inside my room sitting on the curtain, it puzzles me. Any idea what order and family it could belong ? February 2010 rainforest Paraty-Brazil Thank you! Myriam  I'll have to wait to post the pics, no more threads allowed!  Trying again.. bonitin attached the following image:  [63.23Kb] Edited by bonitin on 13-12-2010 12:18 |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 13-12-2010 12:15
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Perhaps with the picture... 
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| bonitin |
Posted on 13-12-2010 12:19
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Member Location: Gent, Belgium Posts: 348 Joined: 11.10.07 |
Thanks Paul! Ooops, I think my pic was too heavy!
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| bonitin |
Posted on 13-12-2010 12:22
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Member Location: Gent, Belgium Posts: 348 Joined: 11.10.07 |
It looks infested with mites..
bonitin attached the following image:  [56.36Kb] Edited by bonitin on 13-12-2010 12:22 |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 13-12-2010 12:23
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Looks beetle-ish, with short elytra (like in Staphylinidae) but nothing like I have ever seen before.
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| bonitin |
Posted on 13-12-2010 12:26
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Member Location: Gent, Belgium Posts: 348 Joined: 11.10.07 |
Thanks Paul! |
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| Gerard Pennards |
Posted on 13-12-2010 12:54
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 Member Location: Amersfoort Posts: 1914 Joined: 07.06.04 |
Maybe something like Phengodidae, but that's a guess.... Greetings Greetings, Gerard Pennards |
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| bonitin |
Posted on 13-12-2010 13:12
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Member Location: Gent, Belgium Posts: 348 Joined: 11.10.07 |
Thanks for the suggestion Gerard! I found out that Phengodidae is the family of the glowworms when in larva stage, there were glowworms around...but outside.. |
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| pwalter |
Posted on 13-12-2010 13:33
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 Member Location: Miskolc, Hungary Posts: 3555 Joined: 06.11.08 |
Did You collect the mites? Have You got any undetermined mites? Regards, Walter
Walter Pfliegler - Amateur Nature Photographer from Hungary (and molecular biologist) |
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| bonitin |
Posted on 13-12-2010 14:40
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Member Location: Gent, Belgium Posts: 348 Joined: 11.10.07 |
No, I am sorry Walter, I didn't collect the mites, I only discovered the bug was infected with them after loading my pictures..My DSRL with macrolens had let me down at the time so I had to use the macro mode of a compact camera, not ideal for photographing such tiny things as mites! I only have pictures of Brazilian Dog ticks ..not collected though, I don't collect specimen.. Myriam |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 13-12-2010 15:16
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I don't have my specimens to-hand but I have caught these at light in the neotropics and this is a member of an unusual group of beetles ... when I get them back I can say more
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| bonitin |
Posted on 13-12-2010 15:53
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Member Location: Gent, Belgium Posts: 348 Joined: 11.10.07 |
Oh thanks Chris! That's very interesting! I'll wait then till you get yours back! Myriam |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 13-12-2010 19:34
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Max Barclay (BMNH) says that yours is a Atractocerus (Lymexelidae) beetle - which can be "quite common"
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| bonitin |
Posted on 13-12-2010 20:39
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Member Location: Gent, Belgium Posts: 348 Joined: 11.10.07 |
 Thank you Chris!! |
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