The Small Majority
Approximately 80% of the world's species are insects! This list contains many of my favorite insect observations on JungleDragon.
Christine Young created this list 6 years ago
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Pin-tailed flower beetle - Mordella leucosticta -
Termite Soldier - Isoptera -
Juniper Hairstreak (Callophrys gryneus) -
Stalk-eyed Fly - Family Diopsidae -
Lithinus Sepidoides - mug shot -
Yellow- headed Snail Parasitic Blowfly - Amenia imperial -
Madagascan Giant Water Bug - frontal -
Dung Beetle - Got to love your Job -
4 VS 1 -
Dragonfly -
Four-spotted owlfly, double eye -
Campion sp. mantidfly -
Jeweled flower mantis (eyes) -
Dinomyrmex gigas - Major Worker (portrait) -
Austral Ellipsidion Cockroach -
Selenisa sp. -
Glenurus gratus -
Aleurotuba jelinekii - Puparium -
Sympistis sp. -
Penthicodes farinosa wing closeup, Heesch, Netherlands -
Cuming's Fig Wasp -
Allacma fusca - Paler -
Indian Wax Scale (Ceroplastes ceriferus) -
![Cyphoderus albinus Had a quick look to see if I have older images of Springtails not yet featured on JD ...
This is a blind commensal/mutualist in the nests of many species of Ants.
The taxonomy seems to be in flux with various family names being used by different authors (Cyphoderidae, Paronellidae, Lepidocyrtidae).
Here I've chosen to follow this remark by Frans Janssens (2018):
"We propose to cluster Paronellini and Cyphoderini in Cyphoderinae, under Lepidocyrtidae, in line with the molecular phylogeny of Zhang et al., 2015, and the morphological study of Zeppelini & Oliveira, 2016."
[ https://www.collembola.org/taxa/cyphoder.htm ] Collembola,Cyphoderidae,Cyphoderinae,Cyphoderus,Cyphoderus albinus,Entomobryomorpha,Geotagged,Lepidocyrtidae,Netherlands,Paronellidae,Springtail,nl: Mierenspringstaart](https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/3043/105666_small.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1763596810&Signature=3lqBpcmyqXIPBH3Y8w7LBfW8MVc%3D)
Cyphoderus albinus