Dragonfly/harvestman/moth for id conf

[SilverW0lf]

Are these Common Darters - Sympetrum striolatum (I think they must be... but I also know my own limitations)

I was thrilled to get the first photo at Pennington Flash on the Saturday on quite an uneventful visit but then on Sunday they were everywhere even landing on my wife's hand & knee... this took the sense of achievement away slightly!

I'm more confident of this being a Blue-tailed Damselfly - Ischnura elegans


I think I'm right in ID'ing this as a harvestman - opiliones but have no idea on sub-species


An unknown moth?

[Dogghound]

The dragonflys are all Common darters
The damselfly is a blue tailed
The moth is Epiphyas postvittana

[Pudding4brains]

Howdy,

Harvestmen (Opiliones) are an order. Taxonomy on family and such has changed somewhat over the years, but one popular view would nowadays be that this female Leiobunum blackwalli is in the superfamily Phalangioidea and most references put them in family Phalangiidae. No sub-species defined for L. blackwalli to my knowledge

Cheers, Arp

[SilverW0lf]

Cheers for the confirmations Dogghound and the moth ID!

Cheers for the Leiobunum blackwalli ID Arp, that's as far as I was hoping to take it anyway
(I'm still getting confused by taxonomy and what "level" things are at)

I've just checked this out on Wikipedia... so my use of the order title is way...way out

Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Opiliones
Suborder: Eupnoi
Superfamily: Phalangioidea
Family: Sclerosomatidae
Subfamily: Leiobuninae
Genus: Leiobunum

To compare with ours...
Domain: Eukarya (organisms which have cells with a nucleus)
Kingdom: Animalia (with eukaryotic cells having cell membrane but lacking cell wall, multicellular, heterotrophic)
Phylum: Chordata (animals with a notochord, dorsal nerve cord, and pharyngeal gill slits, which may be vestigial)
Subphylum: Vertebrata (possessing a backbone, which may be cartilaginous, to protect the dorsal nerve cord)
Class: Mammalia (endothermic vertebrates with hair and mammary glands which, in females, secrete milk to nourish young)
Cohort: Placentalia (giving birth to live young after a full internal gestation period)
Order: Primates (collar bone, eyes face forward, grasping hands with fingers)
Suborder: Anthropoidea (monkeys, including apes, including humans; as opposed to the lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers)
Infraorder: Catarrhini (Old World anthropoids)
Superfamily: Hominoidae (apes, including humans)
Family: Hominidae (great apes, including humans)
Genus: Homo (humans and related extinct species)
Species: Homo sapiens

I found that quite interesting and at a level I've never looked at before.

[Pudding4brains]

I've seen various very confusing usages of the "Family: Sclerosomatidae" taxon. Other resources put animals such as the peculiar Homalenotus in this family. I'll see if I can figure out what's going on with that and possibly update wikipedia if need be

[naturegirl]

#7 Is a Tortrix moth if that is of any help to you?

Naturegirl

[leifus]

common darters and blue-tailed damselfy