Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Insect
Posted by Muhammad Mahdi on 19-03-2009 18:03
#1
A very small 2mm long insect.
Pictured in Tanzania
Posted by pwalter on 19-03-2009 18:05
#2
Hi! A nice pseudoskorpion (Pseudoskorpiones). A relative of Spiders and Skorpions. So not insect (has 8 legs!).
Posted by Muhammad Mahdi on 19-03-2009 20:39
#3
Thanks walter. Didn't know about these. ;)
Posted by pwalter on 19-03-2009 20:43
#4
Your specimen is actually quite big compared to the ones here in Europe. They are mostly only determinable using microscope. Nice photo, anyway!
Edited by pwalter on 19-03-2009 20:44
Posted by Tony Irwin on 19-03-2009 22:42
#5
Here in Britain, 2mm is about average for a pseudoscorp - they can be twice that size!
This one looks like a
Chernes or related genus, but i don't know what you'd get in Tanzania.
Posted by pwalter on 19-03-2009 22:48
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Tony Irwin wrote:
Here in Britain, 2mm is about average for a pseudoscorp - they can be twice that size!
This one looks like a Chernes or related genus, but i don't know what you'd get in Tanzania.
Yes, I meant bigger that the ones I see here :) The biggest one I found was also 2 mm but others were smaller. That was a Neobisium which I kept for 4 months and fed with collembolas.
Edited by pwalter on 19-03-2009 22:49
Posted by Muhammad Mahdi on 20-03-2009 06:06
#7
nice pet you had walter:D
Thanks Tony.
I was looking for insects lifting stones, and found it under one large stone.