Beetle, bug, hoverfly - mixed bag for ID!

Janenat · #1 (**permalink**) 27-06-2011, 12:34 PM

Hello

Thought this beetle would be easy to find - looks distinctive

Bug?! have no idea where to start looking

Hoverfly

Bee?

Think this is a 10 spot ladybird - would appreciate confirmation

I know the instar on left but have no idea of the other creature on right

Came across a damaged harlequin - just curious any ideas about it could have got this damage?

Many thanks

Jane

Janenat · #2 (**permalink**) 27-06-2011, 12:36 PM

Don't know what happened there

2nd image of bug instead of harlequin

I'll get the hang of this one day!!

Jane

Janenat · #3 (**permalink**) 27-06-2011, 12:37 PM

Try again

Jane

Paul mabbott · #4 (**permalink**) 27-06-2011, 02:21 PM

I'll stick to the two beetles

Yes, a ten-spot ladybird, Adalia decempunctata.

I've not seen quite this sort of damage but elytral malformations are not uncommon in all species of ladybirds: generalyy assumed to be damaged during emergence of the animal while its elytra are still soft - maybe caught on something?

diggleken · #5 (**permalink**) 27-06-2011, 02:35 PM

Hi Jane,
I think the hoverfly is sphaerophoria scripta.
Cheers
Ken

JRsbugs · #6 (**permalink**) 27-06-2011, 03:23 PM

First is a bug, Miridae - Deraeocoris ruber

Your 'bug' along with the Harleqin is a sawfly.

The bee looks like Lasioglossum, maybe L. calceatum.

At the risk of being shot down in flames I tend to agree with Ken on Sphaerophoria scripta, the wings look short.

Janet

Janenat · #7 (**permalink**) 27-06-2011, 03:23 PM

Excellent thank you

Jane

Anzu · #8 (**permalink**) 27-06-2011, 03:35 PM

I was looking at nymphs and thought that alongside your instar might be a nymph of Heterotoma planicornis.

Judging from the pale legs and if you look more closely at the antennae too there are 2 segments that are hard to see in the white glint of the leaf.

Janenat · #9 (**permalink**) 27-06-2011, 04:28 PM

Thank you will do some research on those when I get back into work tomorrow

Jane

Jason Green · #10 (**permalink**) 27-06-2011, 04:44 PM

Afternoon Jane,

The first is Deraeocoris flavilinea, first recorded in the UK in the 90s I believe. The third is a Sawfly that I imagine you photographed just prior to alighting! Next is a female Sphaerophoria species - alas female, so no-further identifiable. The bee is a Halictid, then the one to the right of the ladybird in the last image is as said by Anzu - Heterotoma planicornis.

Take care,

Jason