Gray Fishfly - Neohermes concolor - Neohermes concolor

Moved

Moved from Neohermes angusticollis.

I've spent some time looking at specimens in my collection -- I have both N. concolor and N. angusticollis -- and have decided this specimen has to be a Neohermes based on color pattern and other characters. By distribution, it pretty much can only be N. concolor.

… Brady Richards, 18 August, 2011 - 2:11pm

Thanks for all the work

Thanks Brady, for uncovering the ID of this insect, and letting me know that it required a new page to be created on bugguide. (That's a first for me.) Your note also alerted me to the fact that with such IDs, more photos from numerous angles would be advised, in this case for genitalia. Good to know.

… Richard Wolfert, 18 August, 2011 - 3:38pm

Moved

Moved from Eastern Dobsonfly.

… Richard Wolfert, 16 August, 2011 - 8:00pm

May I ask how you made the sp

May I ask how you made the species determination? From the picture, I'm assuming you have a Neohermes, but I couldn't make out the venation color pattern to rule out Chauliodes rastricornis. However, N. angusticollis seems to have only been reported from Georga and South Carolina. If this is a Neohermes, it is likely N. concolor -- the more widespread and commonly found eastern species.

… Brady Richards, 16 August, 2011 - 8:23pm

Not Corydalus

I can't make out the wings very well, but I suspect this is a Neohermes.

… Brady Richards, 16 August, 2011 - 7:04pm

Thanks Brady

I was hasty in placing this as:

1) I had never seen a Gray Fishfly (knowingly) and was told that all these large insects were all Dobsonflies (by someone who claimed to know them well), and

2) Presumed the mandibles of a female were just not evident.

Nice to know (because of you) that I have a new insect here. And thank you for moving it.

… Richard Wolfert, 16 August, 2011 - 8:01pm