Record holders in the world of insects

From my point of view (I may be wrong), the proboscis is a modified jaw, and the rostrum is the front part of the head capsule stretched out into a tube. So you can't.

A rostrum is a weevil's head tube or a panorpid's beak, only in Latin.

The most adapted insect to the marine environment is the sea water skater Halobates micans. This species of water skater is widely distributed in the equatorial and tropical latitudes of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.


The caterpillar of the American white butterfly Hyphantria cunea has the widest diet among insects. Its caterpillar feeds on 636 species of plants that grow in different parts of the world.


The smallest insect is the Megaphragma caribea rider from the island of Guadeloupe. The adult is only 0.10-0.17 mm long.


The male earwig Anisolabis sp. has the longest copulatory organ relative to the body among insects. The length of the penis exceeds the length of the body.


The longest diapause among insects was experienced by the butterfly Prodoxus y-inversus. Adult insects from Nevada hatched from larvae after 19 years, all this time they were observed in the laboratory.


The smallest eggs relative to the body are laid by the fly Zenillia pullata. the size of eggs is 0.02-0.027 mm.

The oldest insect is Rhyniella procursor. This insect lived 370,000,000 years ago and was found in Tayside, Scotland.

This post was edited by niyaz - 31.08.2011 23: 05

The male common earwig (Forficula auricularia) has the longest copulatory organ relative to the body among insects. The length of the penis exceeds the length of the body.

No. In Forficulidae, the male genitalia are quite "normal". Here in Anisolabididae, the basal part of the genitals can actually be extended into a long stalk.



Figure 1 - 'proximal stalk of the male genitalia'.

By the way, the photo shows a female earwig.

The oldest insect is Rhyniella procursor. This insect lived 370,000,000 years ago and was found in Tayside, Scotland.

This is a primary moth, possibly a collembola. Now collembolus (like other Entognatha) is not considered an insect. The oldest winged insects (i.e., insects already) are known for certain from Namur - in different systems they are either the very top of the lower Carboniferous or the bottom of the middle Carboniferous.

This post was edited by Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg - 08/31/2011 21: 22

Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg, thank you for the clarification. But if Collembola Rhyniella procuror is not an insect, then who is the oldest insect?

The longest diapause among insects was experienced by the butterfly Yucca baccata. Adult insects from Nevada hatched from larvae after 19 years, all this time they were observed in the laboratory.

Yucca baccata is a (forage) plant. And the butterfly in this case is some kind of Megathymus.

PS: The photo shows Megathymus yuccae.

Yucca baccata is a (forage) plant. And the butterfly in this case is some kind of Megathymus.

Yes, I got it wrong, it turns out the butterfly is called Prodoxus y-inversus.

The male small night peacock's eye (Saturnia pavonia) has the sharpest sense of smell among insects, which is able to smell the sexual attractant (pheromone) of a virgin female within a radius of 11 km.


The highest jump relative to the body among insects is made by the cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis). It is known that it can jump up to 34 cm, which is 350 times the length of its body.


The highest degree of dehydration can be transferred to the larva of the mosquito Polypedilum vanderplanki from Uganda and Nigeria. It is adapted to exist when the body dries out, as a result of which less than 3% of the body's fluid is retained. In a dehydrated state, the larvae become impervious to many extreme environmental conditions, and can survive temperatures from 3 to 375 K.


This post was edited by niyaz - 31.08.2011 22: 55

Yes, I got it wrong, it turns out the butterfly is called Prodoxus y-inversus.

Yeah, I get it now. There was no need for a photo of the fathead.

as a suggestion
Dear niyaz! everyone has already realized that you can click buttons in the search engine, typing "most most", but...maybe it's better to add more specifics supported by at least links not to the "wiki", but to your own collection/experience?
let's save the specified direction..the biggest/smallest/heat-resistant/and so on, but from personal experience and with ORIGINAL photos ?
everyone has a place for creativity........ for ex. URL #38
how do People view it?

But wouldn't this lead to the subjectivization of reality, limited only to someone's private collection? All the same, the topic was created to obtain objective information based on the analysis and discussion of literature on the entire class and orders of insects, and not for phallometry, which seems to assume that everyone will show the longest, thickest, frost-resistant, etc.in their collection and in their experience. After all, the earwig in this process will still be difficult to beat. :-)

Question: Which insect has the longest whiskers in absolute terms?

not relative to the body?

not relative to the body?

no

big oak sawyere

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In the great oak barbel (according to Wikipedia), with a body length of 55 cm, the whiskers reach 1.7 of the body length, i.e. about 9 cm.
There is information (from one foreign forum) that Batocera wallacei with a body length of 8.5 cm mustache reach a length of 23 cm.

  
There is an infa (from one foreign forum) that Batocera wallacei, with a body length of 8.5 cm, has whiskers reaching a length of 23 cm.

http://www.insect-sale.com/photo.asp?photo...-proserpina-Kei

nuuuuu then foreign

nuuuu then foreign ones

And here is our Moscow region male Acanthocinus aedilis Linnaeus, 1758.
The record holder is:

Pictures:

aedilis.jpg — (69.76к)

Which insect has the longest wing (from root to tip)? Could it be Saturnia Actias dubernardi?

is there an insect with the longest sting?

This post was edited by Collector - 13.09.2011 21: 48

is there an insect with the longest sting?

The sting is usually characteristic of hymenopteran insects and is proportional to the length of the body, so here probably the record holders are Pepsis hero (pepsis heros) - 6 mm and the Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia) - 5 mm.
But who has the longest ovipositor? Probably this is some kind of rider or grasshopper.

The sting is usually characteristic of hymenopteran insects and is proportional to the length of the body, so here probably the record holders are Pepsis hero (pepsis heros) - 6 mm and the Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia) - 5 mm.
But who has the longest ovipositor? It's probably some kind of rider or grasshopper.

mm or cm

In millimeters. This refers to the length of the stinger.

Here are just grasshoppers with very large ovipositors from Australia:
family Tettigoniidae Krauss, 1902
subfamily Tettigoniinae Krauss, 1902
tribe Nedubini Gorochov, 1988
1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

But the ovipositor of the rider Megarhyssa nortoni


and Megarhyssa macrurus

This post was edited by niyaz - 13.09.2011 23: 30

I have a female Tettigonia viridissima, which is a giant, more than 8 cm, while the rest of my Tettigonia viridissima barely reach 7 cm, this "whopper" is the largest insect in my collection(in terms of massiveness), it is even larger than Anax imperator, whose span is 10 cm, and Tettigonia viridissima has 11.5 cm!
can this be considered a record holder?among their own kind, or there are also larger ones

Among the species, of course!!! But I very much doubt that its size is 8 cm, they rarely grow more than 65 mm with wings . The wingspan would then be 140 mm (for a premednespin with a head of 10 mm), which is impossible in principle , but with a wingspan of 80-90 mm, the wing length of 40-45 mm is quite possible, the entire grasshopper will be 50-60 mm in length. My Turkish dreamaduzas with wings reach up to 8 cm ! and the wingspan here is already real, 140 mm ! There are many different giant grasshoppers,
for example, this species is considered the longest of its kind (with wings), Macrolyristes corporalis

Mecopoda apparently.
But among the tettigoninae subfamily, I don't even know who the biggest one will be, maybe some glyphonotus(or calliphora) or drimadusa limbata, or even some Capnobotes... Maybe something from the Australian species...
After all, please post a photo with measurements of tettigonia's vyshey!! Very interesting...

It looks like this mecopoda is really very large, how do you like it?

In the European part of Russia, the largest grasshopper is the steppe dybka (Saga pedo).


What about the largest erect wing in the world? As I recall, this is Deinacrida heteracantha from the Anostostomatidae


This post was edited by Mantispid - 16.09.2011 13: 37

DanMar, its length I meant from the forehead, to the tip of the ovipositor, and the wingspan is naturally from the end of one nadkyl, to the end of the other, now it straightens out, when I caught it, I threw the stasis in the freezer, and now, having straightened it, it turned out that it is shabby, it turns out to be a pity, and even her grandmother the mustache broke off, and when I caught it, it seemed that it was of remarkable quality.. when it's done, I'll post pictures)

The thing is that the veta from Australia is really the largest, but it has no wings, and I brought this mecopod here because of the length of the wings. I didn't say anything about Russia at all, of course the rack will be the longest, but its volume may exceed the extinct (?) mnogobugorchaty tolstun (steppe).
Photos of green of course spread, very interesting, maybe this female has a body like everyone else, but the wings are very elongated, a kind of long-winged shape.

the multi-humped fat man is extinct? and we have an exhibit in the local history museum..
so pathetic...I was hoping to see him alive in the future

the multi-humped fat man is extinct? and we have an exhibit in the local history museum..

Does the exhibit have a label???

I don't remember, but probably not

Well, it's all clear now . In the photo you have, not green at all, but a real long-tailed grasshopper, tettigonia caudata, this is easily understood by the noticeable spines on the hind thighs and a long ovipositor, it is also easy to notice purple eyes and the absence of a black stripe on the pronotum. I keep them myself, I'm trying to bring out the yellow culture ! They are really larger than green, very expressive and song, and a long ovipositor, the main problem of which is the tendency to breakage! They really often reach large sizes and in my regions almost always exceed the length of the green, the wings are really impressive, about 6 cm, the specimen itself is up to 7 cm, very cool, my albifrons reach 6.5. Lived in the summer as it is also one big guy, but not so gigantic. As for the fat man, it is better not to despair, there is no exact confirmation that the species is extinct, and perhaps now some keeper is breeding it in a terrarium... In the worst case, there are many other species: pallas from Transbaikalia and Mongolia, several species from Greece and Turkey. And I pickled a large grasshopper from Turkey, 5 cm, wingspan 14 cm, now I wanted to take a picture of another live one with its wings spread, but he did not deign, I will wait for it to be taken out of the freezer... In general, how long do you keep them in the freezer? Mine has been lying there for a week, I was told to keep it in the refrigerator for a month in alcohol...

A few years ago, I caught a grey grasshopper that was 6.5 cm long(with wings) and 5.2 cm long.I don't know,maybe there are even more of them.
"They're really bigger than the greens," I noticed, too.- the largest of my T. caudata.Although compared to Deinacrida heteracantha-a trifle.

2 DanMar: and tell me, please, how reliable do you think this sign of T. caudata is-blackening of the spines on the legs? Naturally, I ask for a reason. It's just that when I was young, I once described a special subspecies of the caudate grasshopper - and I still don't know if I got too excited.

Well, it's all clear now . In the photo you have, not green at all, but a real long-tailed grasshopper, tettigonia caudata, this is easily understood by the noticeable spines on the hind thighs and a long ovipositor, it is also easy to notice purple eyes and the absence of a black stripe on the pronotum. I keep them myself, I'm trying to bring out the yellow culture ! They are really larger than green, very expressive and song, and a long ovipositor, the main problem of which is the tendency to breakage! They really often reach large sizes and in my regions almost always exceed the length of the green, the wings are really impressive, about 6 cm, the specimen itself is up to 7 cm, very cool, my albifrons reach 6.5. Lived in the summer as it is also one big guy, but not so gigantic. As for the fat man, it is better not to despair, there is no exact confirmation that the species is extinct, and perhaps now some keeper is breeding it in a terrarium... In the worst case, there are many other species: pallas from Transbaikalia and Mongolia, several species from Greece and Turkey. And I pickled a large grasshopper from Turkey, 5 cm, wingspan 14 cm, now I wanted to take a picture of another live one with its wings spread, but he did not deign, I will wait for it to be taken out of the freezer... In general, how long do you keep them in the freezer? Mine has been lying there for a week, I was told to keep it in the refrigerator for a month in alcohol...

tolstun I have in the area should be found, why do I need some foreign ones)

and in the freezer..I just keep it until I can straighten it out..this one, in my opinion, was lying for about a month, although it was once defrosted, since it was necessary to bring it from the dacha