110626 Dairy Farm Road

Last minute decision to join Nicky and Sagita at Dairy Farm Road this morning, mainly because I fell asleep at 4pm yesterday and woke up at 5am this morning, early enough to catch them.



These strange katydids were only recently described by Mr Tan Ming Kai as Asiophlugis temasek. looks very similar to the photo in the entry Phlugis thaumasia in Singapore red data book. However they are likely to be different as I saw at least 4 of them without trying very hard.


Cricket.


Ant carcass assassin bug nymph, suspected to be Acanthaspis.


Cicada. Saw another smaller brown one which flew away before I could photograph it.


Super hairy caterpillar.


Strange beetle with one bump on each elytron.


Tiny longhorn, about 1 cm long. Antennae held 90 degrees to its body when I first saw it. Closed up its antennae as in photo to hide better on that long thin vine when it sensed us approaching.


Sagita had sharp eyes for tiger beetles, spotting this Cicindela aurulenta


and this small brown tiger beetle.


Nicky spotted this tiny (7 mm) net-wing beetle (Lycidae).


This beetle was even tinier, at about 2 mm long.



A couple of flies that look like robber flies (Asilidae). The top one may be, but the bottom one did not seem to have facial hairs and could be something else.


Small strange looking red fly, about 6 mm long. There was another slightly smaller one nearby, on the same plant.



Sagita also spotted quite a few mantis flies (Mantispidae). Very flighty and only stop to rest upside down under plants.


Sleeping harvestman.


Sparassidae exuvia.



Cute and fairly large salticid.



Vicious jaws on this other male salticid, Viciria sp..


Yet another salticid.


Camponotus gigas stops to show me what lies between its open jaws. This one is a major worker.