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Harmonia axyridis is a large coccinellid beetle. Its colour ranges from yellow-orange to black, and the number of spots between none and 22. It is native to eastern Asia, but has been artificially introduced to North America and Europe to control aphids and scale insects. It is now common, well known, and spreading in those regions, and has also established in South Africa and widely across South America.
It is commonly known as the harlequin ladybird (because it occurs in numerous colour forms). It is also known in North America as the multicolored Asian lady beetle, and (because it invades homes in October in preparation for overwintering) as Halloween lady beetle. In Japan, it is not generally distinguished from the seven-spot ladybird which is also common there.
When the species first arrived in the UK, it was labelled in jest as "the many-named ladybird", because among the names listed were: multivariate, southern, Japanese, and pumpkin ladybird.
Los Angeles. California.
DF, Brazil.
Arawacus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, commonly known as "stripestreaks". Species of this genus are found in the Neotropical region.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Theclinae
Tribe: Eumaeini
Genus: Arawacus Kaye, 1904
Species: A. separata (Lathy, 1926)
Binomial name: Arawacus separata
Macho inmaduro, supongo que de un par de días, de Ischnura graellsii, que será el primero de una serie de imágenes de esta especie. A veces es fácil de confundir con I. elegans, por lo que hay que prestar atención al pronoto, que presentará un ligero arqueo hacia arriba del borde posterior, y no con un pincho, como en elegans. También fijarnos en los apéndices anales superiores, cercoides, que estarán curvados hacia el centro, en I. elegans están hacia afuera.
Fotografiado en: Río Congost. Granollers. Barcelona. España.
Ischnura graellsii, ♂
Immature male, I suppose a couple of days old, of Ischnura graellsii, which will be the first in a series of images of this species. It is sometimes easy to confuse with I. elegans, so pay attention to the pronotum, which will have a slight upward arch from the posterior border, rather than a spike, as in elegans. Also note the superior anal appendages, cercoids, which will be curved towards the center, in I. elegans they are outwards.
Photographed in: Río Congost. Granollers. Barcelona. Spain.
El Género Calopteryx en España se compone de tres especies: xanthostoma, virgo y esta que pongo, haemorrhoidalis. Imagen de archivo, de cuatro años atrás, en visita al pueblo de Otívar. Fue una gozada poder captar a este macho con su llamativo captáforo, en los últimos segmentos del abdomen, entre fucsia y carmín…, destellos de luz.
Fotografiado en: Río Verde. Otívar. Granada. España.
Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis, ♂
The Genus Calopteryx in Spain is composed of three species: xanthostoma, virgo and this one that I put, haemorrhoidalis. Image of four years ago, in visit to the town of Otívar. It was a joy to capture this male with his striking captáforo, in the last segments of the abdomen, between fuchsia and carmine…,flashes of light.
Photographed in: Río Verde. Otívar. Granada. Spain.
Un syrphe femelle assez rare butine une fleur de une céphalaire à fleurs blanches en bordure des marnes. L'adulte est floricole, les larves se developpent dans le bois pourri. Elle sert de taxi (phorésie) à un minuscule arachnide qui ressemble fort à un scorpion (pseudoscorpion). Il utilise ses pédipalpes (pinces) pour s'aggriper aux insectes qui le transporte vers des lieux où il trouvera de la nourriture. Ils se nourrissent dans la litière de petits arthropodes, souvent des acariens et des collemboles.
A fairly rare female hoverfly gathering nectar of a giant scabious flower in a wasteland near marls. The adult is floricole, the larvae develop in the rotted wood. It serves as a taxi (phoresy) to a tiny arachnid that look like a scorpion (pseudoscorpion). He uses his pedipalpes to cling to the insects that transport him to places where he will find food. They feed on litter of small arthropods, often acarines and springtails.