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Species List for Card Backs

The following list denotes the various insects featured on cards and posters.



The Robber Fly

There is much consternation and perspiring of posterior spiracles amongst the mature larvae who had been anticipating a wriggling good day seeking out external body openings and diseased tissues at the 'Myiasis in Man' exhibit, currently on display at the Humanarium. Sleigh driver Spilomyia longicornis, multi-facets reflecting fear, palps twitching uncontrollably, has already lost his co-driver, Vespula germanica to the unerring aim of Laphria sacrator and his sidetick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus.

A natural born killer, Robber Fly Laphria sacrator was a juvenile delinquent and assassin by the time he was a third instar. Raised in a rotting log, consistently failing to report to his pupation officer, sacrator emerged with wings barely dry and proceeded to leave a trail of dried and drained exoskeletons in leafy glades across several states. Viciously stabbing and paralysing his victims, then sucking up their body substances, he managed to evade Swat teams until finally being apprehended during a sweep by an FBI (Federal Bureau of Invertebrates) mimicry squad. Tried and convicted, he was sentenced to overwinter at a Maximum Security Malaise Trap. He escaped by faking 95% ethyl alcohol poisoning. Using distribution maps and government surplus phylogeny charts he was able to stay a distitarsus ahead of Po Lice.

Implicated in an infected blood scandal, Brown Dog Tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus, was arrested at an engorgement party, but subsequently flea bargained for an early release. Teaming up with Laphria sacrator, they terrorised the countryside, becoming two of North America's most uncollected.

Anyone with information as to the whereabouts of these notorious specimens should contact Deetective Insector Berlese of Instarpol.

Sweat Bee, Halictus rubicundus, Halictidae, Hymenoptera.
Syrphid Fly, Longicornis spilomyia, Syrphidae, Diptera.
Human Bot Fly mature larva, Dermatobia hominis, Oestridae, Diptera.
Primary Screwworm Fly mature larva, Cochliomyia hominivorax, Calliphoridae.
Horse Bot Fly mature larva, Gasterophilus intestinalis, Gasterophilidae, Diptera.
Metallic Wood Boring Beetle larva, Chrysobothris trinerva, Buprestidae, Coleoptera.
Honey Bee larva, Apis mellifera, Apidae, Hymenoptera.
Black Blowfly larva, Phormia regina, Calliphoridae, Diptera.
Blackfly larva, Prosimulium mixtum, Simuliidae, Diptera.
Larder Beetle larva, Dermestes lardarius, Dermestidae, Coleoptera.
Treehopper, Thelia bimaculator, Membracidae, Homoptera.
Rhinocerous Beetle, Allomyrina dichotomus, Dynastidae, Coleoptera.
Broad-nosed Weevil, Ophryastes nivosus, Curculionidae, Coleoptera.
Robber Fly, Laphria sacrator, Asilidae, Diptera.
Antenna of Rachicerus obscuripennis, Xylophagidae, Diptera.
Antenna of Bumble Bee, Psithysus ashtoni, Apidae, Hymenoptera.
Dotted Clay Moth larva, Xestia baja, Noctuidae, Lepidoptera.
Brown Dog Tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus, Ixodidae, Acari.
Dog Flea, Ctenocephalides canis, Pulicidae, Siphonaptera.
Predatory Mite, Hypoaspis sp., Laelapidae, Acari.
Yellowjacket Wasp, Vespula germanica, Vespidae, Hymenoptera.
Escaped Research Associate.


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