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Skorpionsfliegen sehen mit ihrem "Pferdegesicht" schon sehr außergewöhnlich aus. Sie gehören weder zu den Skorpionen noch zu den Fliegen, sondern zu den Schnabelfliegen.

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Nahaufnahme einer Deutschen Skorpionsfliege (Panorpa germanica) auf einem dünnen Pflanzenstängel vor unscharfem grünem Hintergrund. Das bernsteinfarbene Insekt zeigt seinen charakteristischen verlängerten Kopf mit den großen dunklen Facettenaugen und den langen Fühlern. Das Tier sitzt mit seinen schlanken Beinen auf einem Grashalm. Die Makroaufnahme betont die filigranen Details der Skorpionsfliege in ihrer natürlichen Umgebung.

#NewSpecies!
New scorpionfly from #china just flew in:

Dicerapanorpa dajinhuang

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0393DC77-5C21-4771-C821-D6CDFE60C96E
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.997.2939
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Panorpe des prés mais presque sur terrasse tiède et apprenante #insecte #mecoptera #panorpavulgaris (notez la queue qui donne le nom de genre de mouche scorpion)

A close-up image of a colorful insect sitting on a red and white checked strap. The background is blurred, showing faint outlines of objects.

A close-up image of a black and white insect with long wings and antennae, resting on a textured surface, with a terracotta plant pot in the background.

Buenos días con esta foto de detalle de una mosca escorpión. En este caso una Panorpa meridionalis, que ni es mosca ni mucho menos escorpión. Pertenece al primitivo orden Mecoptera.
#insects #insectos #mecoptera #macro #photography #nature #naturaleza #fotografia

Foto de detalle de una mosca escorpión (Panorpa meridionalis)

Macro Marvel: The Intriguing Scorpionfly of Kampina

While exploring the Kampina nature reserve near Oisterwijk, I encountered the fascinating Common Scorpionfly (Panorpa communis), or "beenschorpioenvlieg" in Dutch. Drawn by its distinctive patterned wings and the male's curved, red-tipped abdomen—resembling a scorpion's tail—I was compelled to capture its unique features. Utilizing my Canon 5D Mark III with the Canon MP-E 65mm 5x macro lens, I managed to photograph this elusive insect, despite its tendency to fly off before I could get close.

Scorpionflies are harmless insects belonging to the ancient order Mecoptera, dating back over 250 million years. The male's "tail" is actually a pair of claspers used during mating, not a stinger. These insects are scavengers, feeding on dead insects and sometimes stealing prey from spider webs. Their mating rituals are particularly intriguing; males present females with nuptial gifts, such as dead insects or saliva masses, to increase mating success.

Capturing this image was a rewarding challenge, highlighting the intricate beauty of this often-overlooked insect.

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A nap ízeltlábúja a csőrösrovarok skorpiólegyek családjába tartozó Panorpa cognata https://www.izeltlabuak.hu/faj/panorpa-cognata/talalatok #PanorpaCognata #skorpiólegyek #Panorpidae #csőrösrovarok #Mecoptera #CitizenScience #KözösségiTudomány

Panorpa sp.

Snapped last August, Loire Atlantique, France

Published under #CC0 here https://flic.kr/p/2qe4TVV

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#photography #insect #wildlife #mywork #ScorpionFly

A Scorpionfly (genus Panorpa), a Drone Fly (Milesia crabroniformis), a Pea Blue (Lampides boeticus) and a Hooded Crow (Corvus cornix) spotted at Boboli Gardens, Florence, Italy on 14 Oct 2024.

On iNaturalist:
- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/248703588
- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/248703585
- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/248703591
- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/248703589

Coming up: photos from Tuscany, Italy.

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An insect by a beak-like mouth and a curved tail that resembles that of a scorpion. The head is red, while the body is brown with yellow stripes. The wings are mostly transparent, with black patches.

A fly with a flattened abdomen, and brown and yellow patterns on its body that resemble that of a wasp.

A butterfly with brown wings and a series of light stripes that line the wings.

A large crow with a dark head and wings, and a body with lighter coloured dark feathers.

Back from a holiday in Italy. And one of the more interesting organisms spotted is this Scorpionfly, genus Panorpa, in Florence on 14 October 2024. A fascinating looking insect.

On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/248703588 ].

#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Florence #Italy #Insects #Scorpionfly #Mecoptera

An insect with a yellow body with dark bands running down the back. It has transparent wings with black markings, long antennas and a red snout.

#NewSpecies!
New scorpionfly from #china just flew in:

Panorpa jinfo

Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C549F960-FFB6-6167-FE86-BE28FF3CFE0D
Publication: http://doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2024.007
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A handsome male scorpionfly sitting in the sun on a blade of grass.

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A male scorpionfly sampling some leftover cat food.

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A male scorpionfly stands on the curved inner side of a brushed steel bowl. If we judged by its color and texture, his body could be made of honey. His long horsey head has two dark oval eyes and a crown of ocelli. The segmented threads of his antennae rise gracefully up and curve away from each other. He's a dapper creature who looks dressed for a ball. His long wings, shaped like ash seeds, hang down his back and past his curled-up scorpion tail like an elegant divided cloak. They are banded by dark wavy lines the color of soot and veined like leaves. He contemplates a few crumbs of food stuck to the side of the bowl. He's the first to arrive at the ball, and samples the hors d'oeuvres alone, waiting for the dancing to begin.

These are terrible pictures, but this is the first one of these I've seen. When I was chasing it I thought it was a cranefly, but It's a hangingfly, a mecopteran related to scorpionflies. iNaturalist thinks it might be Bittacus strigosus.

The first picture has slightly better focus on the head, and the second is a little better on the prey, which is itself interesting. Is it a fly? Rachicerus maybe?

#hangingfly #mecoptera #photography #bittacidae #insects #arthropods

A slender yellow insect hangs underneath a green leaf, suspended by its front legs which grasp the leaf's edge. The insect has long transparent, yellow-tinted wings that hang down beyond the end of its abdomen. The wings show a net-like pattern, with enlarged dark patches at some of the intersections. The insect's head has an elongated heart shape, with the point of the heart stretched out and divided into intricate mouthparts. It has two large oval eyes. Long filamentary antennae sweep backward from the head. The insect's legs are long and skinny. The lower (rear) pair grip another insect, about half the length of the first insect.

This is a similar picture, but this one has better focus on the prey insect. It is slim, and has a dark body. The wings are transparent, and swept back. The eyes are large and dark. The most striking features are the antennae, which are long structures like combs, with a dark spine from which many perpendicular gold fingers extend.

Los mecópteros se conocen vulgarmente como moscas escorpión por la forma de los últimos segmentos del abdomen de los machos, transformados en un (inofensivo) órgano copulador. Con su rostro alargado de color rojizo, igual que el final del abdomen, y las alas ahumadas con manchas negras son inconfundibles.
Se les suele ver en claros y bordes de bosques, posados en la vegetación de sotobosque. Son torpes voladores, pero se las ingenian para marearte un buen rato persiguiéndolos con la cámara hasta que consigues una foto medio decente.
En la península tenemos cuatro especies de Panorpa, que se distinguen por las manchas de las alas y algunas protuberancias del abdomen; la de la foto es P. vulgaris.
Fotogtafiada en un alcornocal con sotobosque de helechos.

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Fotografía de perfil de un macho de Panorpa vulgaris posado sobre una brizna de hierba.

Fotografía dorsolateral de un macho de Panorpa vulgaris posado sobre un helecho.

#NewSpecies!
New scorpionfly from China just wagged:
Neopanorpa exaggerata

Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E987F9-360A-FFE9-B2AD-4323EE3C97B4
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5264.1.7
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