Hong Kong Lantern Bug (Zanna chinensis)

Back in 2012, I was working my way around the Helicopter Pad Lake at Nam Nao NP, Petchabun and I noticed a large Lantern Bug resting amongst the grasses. It was later IDd by Noppadon Makbun as probably the Hong Kong Lantern Bug (or fly) Zanna chinensis. Not sure how common this species is (seems known from China), but it is the only one I have spotted. A beautiful species and well worth time out from dragonfly hunting.

 

Note: reading up on the species, what little information there is, records the fact that this species was spotted amongst the grasses, as this was. Possibly a preferred habitat over the usual tree stumps.

 

Lantern Bug (Pyrops ducalis)

Another Lantern Bug I saw, this time at Khao Yai, Nakhorn Ratchasima, in 2011, is Pyrops ducalis. Similar to the other species I found, but has a distinctly red snout. This species was also difficult to approach and moved around its tree.

 

 

Green Cicada

Back in 2010 I saw a Green Cicada bashing itself against a light at the HQ of Nam Nao NP. Eventually it settled down and I managed to get a decent photo. Any ideas on species?

 

 

The Black and Scarlet Cicada (Huechy sanguinea)

Here's a very interesting snapshot in time, when I visited Nam Nao NP, back in February 2012 at the stream that runs through the headquarters. It's a newly emerged Black and Scarlet Cicada, Huechy sanguinea. One of my favourite captures ... and oddly enough, a year or so later, I saw another one emerging and managed to get a lot more photos of the whole process ... though the photos are somewhere deep in my archives at the moment. Will add them as soon as I find them.

This was kindly IDd by Pisuth Ek-Amnuay, with thanks.

 

Cicada

They say children should be seen and not heard. Well, it is the other way around for cicadas. They are heard and not seen. Well, it's difficult ot locate them, anyway. Even then, if you can find one, they often fly away rapidly. Amazingly, though, one flew straight into my house and was rather tame. I even managed to handle him without much fuss (although he constantly tried to spike my hand with his proboscis). Still it was great to see. Any ideas of species?

 

Here he is on a log after release.

 

 

 In the hand ... a fair old size.

 

 

Looks like the nose of a 1950s American car, I think.

 

Lantern Bug (Pyrops spinolae)

Only on two ocassions have I bumped into Lantern Bugs, and both times I found it difficult to get decent shots. As I approached them, they simply move further around the tree, making photography difficult. Still, this one is not too bad and I believe that it is the Lantern Bug, Pyrops spinolae, though I could be wrong. I saw it back in 2010 in Chiang Mai. I also saw a different species in Khao Yai a year later.