Other Arthropods

I suppose it was only a small step from butterflies and dragonflies to being interested in other n-legged friends , where n => 6.

My initial instinct was to title this page Other Insects but, of course, insects have 6 legs and only 6 legs. So, pedantic as it may sound, this page is more correctly titled Other Arthropods, to include things like centipedes and millipedes. Well, we might as well get it right. 🙂

I have a couple of field guides to insects, one of which makes the same insect mistake: Chinery’s Insects of Britain and Western Europe includes spiders, centipedes and millipedes, too. Maybe Arthropods of Britain and Western Europe doesn’t sound catchy enough. Conversely, Paul Brock’s excellent Insects of Britain and Ireland is technically correct since it excludes any critters having more than 6 legs.

Here’s a collection of the other Arthropods that we’ve snapped so far. I’ve tried to group similar species together. At least the individual groups aren’t too big so tracking down a secific critter may not be too onerous. Within group, I’m largely using alphabetical sequence on species name.

Bee-flies
Bombylius major	Bombylius minor	Bombylella atra

Hemipenthes morio	Villa hottentotta

 

Sawflies
Aglaostigma aucupariae	Aglaostigma fulvipes	Athalia cordata

Athalia rosae	Euura proxima	Macrophya duodecimpunctata

Neurotoma saltuum	Rhadinoceraea micans	Tenthredo atra

Tenthredo mesomela	Tenthredo scrophulariae	Tenthredo temula

 

Beegrabbers
Conops quadrifasciatus	Conops vesicularis	Physocephala rufipes

 

Robberflies
Diactria rufipes	Dysmachus trigonus

Scorpionflies
Panorpa communis	Panorpa germanica	Panorpa vulgaris

 

Grasshoppers and Crickets
Chorthippus brunneus	Pseudochorthippus parallelu

Anacridium aegyptium	Eyeprepocnemis plorans	Gryllus campestris

Roeseliana roeselii	Tettigonia viridissima

 

Mantids and a Stick Insect
Ameles spalanzania	Empusa fasciata	Empusa pennata

Mantis religiosa	Sphodromantis viridis	Stick Insect

 

Craneflies
Ctenophora pectinicornis	Nephrotoma flavescens	Ptychoptera contaminata

Tipula lateralis	Tipula maxima

 

Cicadas
Lyristes plebejus	Tibicina haematodes	Psaltoda aurora

 

Assorted Diptera
Bibio lanigerus	Bibio marci

Chironomidae	Clogmia albipunctata	Empis tesselata

Phania funesta	Poecilobothrus nobilitatus	Scathophaga stercoraria

Scolypopa australis	Sepsis sp	Sialis lutaria

Stratiomys potamida	Tachina fera	Tetanocera sp

 

The Water World
Corixa punctata	Notonecta glauca	Dinocras cephalotes

Gerris lacusris	Hydrometra stagnorum

Caddis Fly	Caddis Fly larva

 

Multi-legged
Glomeris marginata	Ommatoilus rutilans

Porcellio ornatus	Scutigera coleoptrata