[Taxacom] Mystery photo

[Stephen Thorpe]

Hi Marco,
Yes, that was my first thought. I can't rule it out, but the apparent wing shape, form of the abdomen, invisible legs, and some "details"?at the head end prevent confirmation. Also, someone has suggested that the optics of the photo indicate an insect much larger that the claimed size of 2 mm.
Cheers,
Stephen

From: Marco Gaiani <marco.gaiani at gmail.com>
To: "taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> 
Sent: Friday, 26 October 2012 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Mystery photo

To me looks almost positively like a male scale insect (maybe a
Margarodidae)

2012/10/25 Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>

> Thanks James, but this seems unlikely, as, some extra information I didn't
> tell you, is that the insect is only supposed to be about 2mm long!
> It seems that different people can interpret it as just about any order of
> insect: Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera,
> Thysanoptera, ...
> Cheers,
> Stephen
>
> From: James K Adams <jadams at daltonstate.edu>
> To: "taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> Cc: "taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> Sent: Friday, 26 October 2012 3:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Mystery photo
>
> Folks,
>
>? ? ? ? Not sure about the white "things", but this insect is a moth of
> some kind (in the Erebidae: Arctiinae), just in case anyone cares.
>
> James
> James K. Adams
> Professor of Biology, Dalton State College
> 706-272-4427; 678-767-5938
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>? ? ? http://www.daltonstate.edu/galeps
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Marco Gaiani
C?tedra de Entomolog?a & Unidad de Bioinformatica
Curador de Hemiptera
Museo del Instituto de Zoolog?a Agricola
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