A few different insects to identify please

Mysore, India(Zone 10a)

There are quite a few in my garden, these insects. Can anyone identify these for me, please.

#1 - Found destroying the Murraya koenigii leaves leaving us no leaf to cook! This is already there on a very young plant.

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Mysore, India(Zone 10a)

#2, a skipper that flew by today.

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Could be some Mantis baby going by its looks?

#3.

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#4.

This is a very tiny and almost easy not to notice it. So tiny and almost transparent too.

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#5

Sitting on my knuckle here, which is this bug?

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#6

Very small flier.

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#7

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#8

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#9

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#10
Flying insect.

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#11

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#12

A green, winged insect with long antennae.

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With a lot of newer members in the last one year, I bring it up again so that there may be someone who can identify these for me, please.

(Zone 7a)

#3 is a Mantid of some kind and #12 is a Lacewing. Both good bugs.

Bandar-e-Abbas, Iran

12) it's Chrysopa sp(maybe chrysopa carnea).
6) it's with leafhopper.Typhlocyba pomaria
4) it's tipulidae.you image is not very good to identify which genus.


Mysore, India(Zone 10a)

Thanks shytonak. #4 insect was very tiny and thin. This was the closest I could get. I'll check on #6 and #12 from the clues you have given.

Sinks Grove, WV

Number 1 appears to be a caterpillar of a butterfly in the family Papilionidae.

Number 4 is not a Tipulid; it is stilt bug (Hemiptera/Heteroptera: Bertyllidae; likely Metacanthus pulchellus - see http://tinyurl.com/2d76yxw for an image. It is reported to have a wide range of hosts, including plants in the genera Cajanus, Datura, Dombeya, Hibiscus, Lagenaria, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Ononis, Passiflora, Paulownia, Solanum, and Theobroma.

Number 5 superficially resembles a stink bug (family Pentatomidae), but I think that it may be in a different family - there’s just something about that bothers me...

Number 6 is indeed a leafhopper, but it is not Typhlocyba pomaria (white apple leafhopper), as that is a North American and not Indian species.

Number 7 is a treehopper (family Membracidae); it looks a lot like Leptocentrus taurus - see http://tinyurl.com/2d6u8dl for an image.

Number 8 could be a leaf-footed bug (family Coreidae).

Number 9 also could be a nymph of a leaf-footed bug, but I’ve never seen one quite like it.

Number 10 is a moth in the superfamily Gelechioidea; this includes a number of different families that can be very difficult to separate without microscopic examination and/or dissection.

Number 11 is a nymph of a stink bug (family Pentatomidae).


Mysore, India(Zone 10a)

Thanks Suunto.. will be checking them soon.

Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a)

I think Number 10 is a moth in the family Oecophoridae, sub-family Stathmopodinae. The wide-ranging genus Stathmopoda has the strange posture shown by your moth with two legs stuck stiffly away from the body, as in this Australian species: http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/showimage/11497/
and this European species: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stathmopoda_pedella

The genus is found in Europe, Hong Kong and Australia, so there are probably Indian species too, but I am unable to find one that matches yours.

Ken

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