Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
 

Register · Log In
HomeGuideID RequestRecentFrassForumsDonateHelp
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar
Upcoming Events

Registration is open for the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2023

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2018 gathering in Virginia, July 27-29


Previous events
TaxonomyBrowseInfoImagesLinksBooksData
Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Barklice, Booklice, and Parasitic Lice (Psocodea) » Psocomorpha » Homilopsocidea » Fateful Barklice (Lachesillidae) » Lachesilla » pedicularia group (Lachesilla pedicularia group) » Lachesilla yucateca
Photo#524613
Lachesilla yacateca Mockford - Lachesilla yucateca - male
Copyright © 2011 Diane Young

Lachesilla yacateca Mockford - Lachesilla yucateca - Male
Welder Wildlife Refuge, San Patricio County, Texas, USA
April 26, 2011
Size: 1.7 mm
Welder Wildlife Refuge grass
Hides a bug with lots of class
With my sweep net I will get ya'
Lahesilla yucateca
Females come from near the ocean
To see that epiproct in motion
Will I get a note from =v=
For writing psocid poetry?

Mockford agrees with this ID. Described in "Taxonomy of the species of the Lachesilla rena complex" Ent. News 113(3):103-112, 2002. This is the first U.S. record for this species.

Images of this individual: tag all
Lachesilla yucateca Mockford - Lachesilla yucateca - male Lachesilla yacateca Mockford - Lachesilla yucateca - male
tag · login or register to post comments
Contributed by Diane Young on 5 June, 2011 - 11:36am
Last updated 5 June, 2011 - 12:48pm

so many verse i won't concoct
to glorify that epiproct.
but please, Diane, please don you khaki
and fetch us female yucky-tucky

Moved from Lachesilla.
… v belov, 5 June, 2011 - 12:48pm login or register to post comments

 
All Y'all Needs
is to add a little Miles Davis with a dose of Charlie Parker's yacky-yacateca sax and I'd start having visions of Jack Kerouac's return.
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 12 June, 2011 - 2:41pm login or register to post comments

Comment viewing options
Select your preferred way to display the comments and click 'Save settings' to activate your changes.

Disclaimer: Dedicated naturalists volunteer their time and resources here to provide this service. We strive to provide accurate information, but we are mostly just amateurs attempting to make sense of a diverse natural world. If you need expert professional advice, contact your local extension office.

Contributors own the copyright to and are solely responsible for contributed content.
Click the contributor's name for licensing and usage information.
Everything else copyright © 2003-2024 Iowa State University, unless otherwise noted.

Bugguide is hosted by:

Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology at Iowa State University logo

Printer Friendly Version 		Terms of Use
Privacy Statement
Site Map
Contact