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Paul Iddon
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This one was underneath a spider web at first, had to inch back a bit of the web to get a clearer view.
Got a bonus baby in the second one, cropped in the third to try and show it. You can judge the size of the baby in the second one compared to the adult.
I think this is the Pogonognathellus longicornis.
Paul.
Got a bonus baby in the second one, cropped in the third to try and show it. You can judge the size of the baby in the second one compared to the adult.
I think this is the Pogonognathellus longicornis.
Paul.
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Brian V.
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Paul.
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The "baby" looks like a juvenile Lepidocyrtus, an entomobryid anyway.
Harold
Thanks Harold - the juve was one I would never ID myself, and the toss up was between Tomocerus & the Pogo...
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Paul,
Pogonognathellus is a subgenus of Tomocerus, elevated to full genus by some taxonomists. It isn't worth typing that long, ugly name for a small morphological difference.
Harold
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Thanks Phil - they are common enough strangely..
Paul.
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