WOW !
First time I see a Teinopalpus gynandromorph !

Congrats to the photographer ! Who is he ?

You should ! French Guiana is very collector friendly with a lot of entomological lodges. People speaks English and French and it is rather safe for an Amazonian area. And you don't need any collector permit from the French Guiana side (just a custom declaration to fill online before arrival). There...

To give you a scale, this Asilidae was a monster : around 4 cm in length!

I would be happy to have an identification of the 2 species if anyone can help or know who could help.

As picture attachment is the great asset of this new forum, let's share your best insect live shot ! https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mwmuAQ8x8xM/WXED_wCe6qI/AAAAAAAABuA/kPMM7-wBdYEnwhuABtYaeZW6iug7fGj_ACPcBGAYYCw/s1600/IMG_9308.JPG I met this huge Asilidae eating an ichneumonidae on Koh Phiphi island (Th...

Welcome here, Chris !

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Welcome to our new home, Duncan !

You are a new member here, please tell us more about you and your insect passion.

Dear Insectnet members, Welcome to our new forum software ! It has been a lot of work, so we hope you like it ! I would like to thank again the moderation team who helped me improve this new software. This new software is really intuitive and close to the Proboards forum. There are few new stuff : -...

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Yes and it was just a copy/paste of the BBcode of the other forum.
It means it is very fast to copy/paste a topic from the old forum (if needed).

You're right. Done.

A Caligo sp. in the Belizon forest.
Caligo species fly at sunset only, a rather unusual behaviour for lepidoptera.

While putting a net on a high branch to try to capture a Memphis , I dropped this large mantis to the ground. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51938581714_6ce871d7db_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51938262511_67aaf53f9b_b.jpg J.A. Cerda told me it is a hard to see species as it may alw...

One Theritas sp., the most common Lycaenidae on the Kaw mountain.
This picture was taken at the entrance of the Amazon Nature Lodge area.



I missed a female Morpho rhetenor that day...

I had the pleasure to spend 2 weeks in French Guiana in October 2021 with my friend Jean-Marc (@lepidofrance). I have only few pictures as I spent most of my time collecting. It was my first time in FG and I found it a very nice Amazonian area with some great entomological lodges in several places. ...

ser2.jpg On this new forum software, all members can upload pictures in their posts. How to insert a picture which is already hosted on the web : - find your image on the web - right click - copy the image address - in your post, click on the picture icon - paste your image address inside the [img]...

Welcome to the new version of the InsectNet forum. InsectNet, created in 1999, is the largest international online community of insect collectors. Here are the rules of our forum: - Be nice ! - Requests for insect identification must be accompanied by a locality so that our members can give you a co...