Mixed bag for id please!

[vaughnie]

I took all these on Tuesday at Warburg, obviously there are a lot of gaps in my knowledge
Oh well here they are:
1. A tiny ladybird (and very poor photo)


2. A bug (apologies for the close-up of my skin...)


3. A shield bug nymph? (on a more attractive background...)


4. A robber-fly?


5. An ichneumonid..


and finally...
6. A beetle...


any help would be very appreciated! as you can see, the 'unidentified' section on my hard drive gets bigger by the day...

[aeshna5]

1 10-spot Ladybird
2 Deraeocoris ruber
3 Nymph Troilus luridus (a shield bug)

[vaughnie]

Cheers aeshna5, I did see another Deraeocoris ruber the same day, but it was a much more orange colour. It didn't click that they could be the same species! Is it the colour of their cuneus that identifies them?

[oxycera]

#4 a Rhagionid (snipe-fly)

[djackso]

Is 6. a soldier beetle?

[oxycera]

Not really my field, but I think the soldier-beetle is Cantharis pallida/cryptica, only seperable microscopically.

[Paul mabbott]

The ladybird is a ten-spot Adalia decempunctata - the forebody pattern is typical as are the pale legs. Has a very variable spot number (0-15 at least).

[Paul mabbott]

Originally Posted by oxycera

Not really my field, but I think the soldier-beetle is Cantharis pallida/cryptica, only seperable microscopically.

I may be getting confused here (it happens trying to do Cantharis from a picture) but
I thought Cantharis cryptica was a synonym for C. pallida? [http://www.coleopterist.org.uk/checklist2008%20A5.pdf ]

With no black markings on the legs, I would have gone for C. rufa.

[Laurence Clemons]

I would say that number 4 is Rhagio tringarius.

[oxycera]

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

I may be getting confused here (it happens trying to do Cantharis from a picture) but
I thought Cantharis cryptica was a synonym for [i]C. pallida

right, I'm obviously a bit out of date here