Martian

Thanks mrklixx for the id. Interestingly, it being a tortoise beetle means I was in the wrong subfamily; it's more closely related to a lady bug or weevil than a scarab.

Ustwo - there is no possible way that thing is a whip scorpion. I was actually thinking something more along the lines of a book scorpion initially (or at least that order, pseudoscorpionida), which matches the morphology except for the appendages. In order for those claws to be actual claws (ie, pedipalps) it would need two more locomotive legs that just aren't there. Thus, since we can label it as an arachnid on the basis of exclusion and it's not dromopoda (which includes the order scorpionida and it's relatives), I have to assume that it is in fact a spider and that either the photos or my eyes just aren't good enough for me to make out the chelicerae.

I wonder if anyone can peg the moth? I unfortunately am not at all knowledgeable regarding lepidopterae; frankly, they bore me.

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