Thread subject: Diptera.info :: mistery imprint of a big insect
Posted by mwkozlowski on 12-10-2007 18:45
#1
I was given this picture from a man who took it some 7 years ago from long time forotten ragg in central Poland. Could somebody try to indentify the insect; more then 10 cm long!
Edited by mwkozlowski on 12-10-2007 18:46
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 12-10-2007 19:42
#2
i don?t know.. but I have a feeling that this is a fake...
Posted by Isidro on 12-10-2007 23:56
#3
Yes, it' looks a joke, because the insects looks very much a bird louse (Mallophaga) and, clearly, any louse can be as big as this one!!!
Posted by Tony Irwin on 13-10-2007 01:29
#4
I wonder whether this was an impression made by a bee ...
a solitary bee that made at least 9 cells and stocked them with pollen ...?
Posted by Susan R Walter on 13-10-2007 06:42
#5
Cockroach?
Posted by mwkozlowski on 13-10-2007 11:11
#6
Cockroach (so giant?!) is rather impossible, because of the lack of pronotum. A bee is an iterressting alternative though rather impossible suggestion. I have lately herd a rationable point from my lepidopteraen colegue. For him it is evidentely a smashed body of Death's Head Hawk-moth (Acherontia atropos)! All the structures of the abdomen have here its well representation; and size also fits well.
Posted by Susan R Walter on 13-10-2007 14:00
#7
I'm Australian - I've seen some serious cockroaches B)