150 Neotropical insects would like to make your acquaintance

I commented on a couple of your beetles.

Don't know if you're interested, Stephen, but here are mine from Ecuador. Everything from 2010 and 2011 was shot with my travel camera. Future images should be a whole lot better.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36494393@N00/collections/72157626539402186/

… Jim McClarin, 7 May, 2011 - 2:32pm

Great group!

A great group, Jim, I made several visits!

… Stephen_WV, 17 May, 2011 - 7:28pm

Neotropical bugs

Maybe we should have a page with links to Neotropical images on other sites, like the ones you guys listed here. I only have very few from Argentina (family takes priority over bugs when I am there) and some from my trip to the Yucatan
I know that Sean has an impressive collection from Guiana, and, of course, Troy has many excellent pictures from Costa Rica.

… Beatriz Moisset, 8 May, 2011 - 12:17pm

Great!

It could be wider-cast than that even, with sections for Paleoarctic, paleotropic, neotropic, etc. (special section for the southernmost continent ;-) Call it "Links to users' images from outside region." It would be links to other sites only (Flickr, P-Base, etc.) so as not to stretch the Bug Guide envelope uncomfortably.

… Jim McClarin, 8 May, 2011 - 3:29pm

Hymenoptera

#7: Vespidae
#8: Mischocyttarus sp., female (Vespidae)
#9: Campsomeris ephippium, male (Scoliidae)
#10: Pompilidae, very likely Pepsis

… George Waldren, 3 May, 2011 - 6:54pm

Thank-you

George (and others who have commented here or on the Pbase pages), thanks so much for taking the time to help. I really appreciate it!

… Stephen_WV, 6 May, 2011 - 7:55am

Coccinellids 19-21

Beetles 19-21 are all genus Cycloneda; the habitus for all three matches Cycloneda sanguinea, the range for which extends as far south as Argentina, but there are some similar Neotropic spp. too so I can't say it IS C. sanguinea. Certainly Cycloneda, though.

… Abigail Parker, 1 May, 2011 - 4:56pm

Thank-you

Thank-you Abagail, I really appreciate hearing from you about those. I belatedly found in my notes to myself for "Beetle 22," "Looks a bit like Cycloneda abdominalis, illustrated in Biologia Centrali-America." I'll mark the others as near C. sanguinea.

Beetle 20 I photographed one minute after Beetle 19 (the larva) so it makes sense that they could be the same species--living in the same location. Thanks again for your kind help!

Thanks, too, to others who have replied on the Pbase site or via email.

I've added some moths and a few more beetles too, and a few birds to keep them company.

… Stephen_WV, 3 May, 2011 - 12:03pm