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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Pyralid Moths (Pyralidae) » Chrysauginae » Galasa » Boxwood Leaftier - Hodges#5552 (Galasa nigrinodis)
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Family Coreidae, a leaf-footed bug? - Galasa nigrinodis
Copyright © 2010 Robert Mayer

Family Coreidae, a leaf-footed bug? - Galasa nigrinodis
Jamaica Plain (Boston), Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
March 2, 2010
Size: ~6mm.
Bug was on an indoor plaster wall, at night but in lighted area, did not move when image was taken up close. Seems to be a leaf-footed bug, Family Coreidae family, but genus & species unknown.

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Family Coreidae, a leaf-footed bug? - Galasa nigrinodis Family Coreidae, a leaf-footed bug? - Galasa nigrinodis
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Contributed by Robert Mayer on 3 March, 2010 - 1:51pm
Last updated 16 May, 2017 - 2:15pm

Moved to Galasa nigrinodis
Moved from Leaftiers.
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 22 April, 2014 - 8:38pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 3 March, 2010 - 3:37pm login or register to post comments

Haha
Awesome series of posts here on Ken trying to get the right ID at the same time Shotguneddie is trying to find it before Ken! Hilarious :)
… Natalie Hernandez, 3 March, 2010 - 3:32pm login or register to post comments

 
haha
if i wasnt so old and feeble minded id have beaten him that time, but the name would not come to me. im gonna have to make a big list.
i do think i have tied ken a few times, but i dont think ive beaten him,,have i?
… Edna Woodward, 3 March, 2010 - 4:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Many of us have not!
I always laugh when I go to post something on a picture and find he beat me to it :)
… Natalie Hernandez, 3 March, 2010 - 4:50pm login or register to post comments

 
What can I say?
I asked Santa to bring me a life, but he didn't come through. :)
… Ken Wolgemuth, 3 March, 2010 - 5:28pm login or register to post comments

thats a moth!
ill go find its name unless Ken thinks of it before me
… Edna Woodward, 3 March, 2010 - 1:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Sorry :(
-
… Ken Wolgemuth, 3 March, 2010 - 1:56pm login or register to post comments

 
why are you sorry hon?
its not your fault i couldnt spell leaftier hahahahaha. :-) and you are the one who named one a few days ago which is how i knew what it was.. you are a great bonus to this place!
… Edna Woodward, 3 March, 2010 - 2:03pm login or register to post comments

 
Aw, shucks...
Thanks!
… Ken Wolgemuth, 3 March, 2010 - 2:04pm login or register to post comments

A moth, actually.
Probably of the genus Galasa



Welcome to BugGuide!
… Ken Wolgemuth, 3 March, 2010 - 1:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Bug turns into moth!
Thanks to both of you. I guess if I had touched it and caused it to fly I would have been in the right family at least!
I've never used the Bug ID function before but have a few images from the past that I'll submit now that I know I can get instant gratification.
… Robert Mayer, 3 March, 2010 - 3:06pm login or register to post comments

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