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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification - DONE

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0/* TonyR

Welcome here to the insect nerds :-0

I think this a Large Crane Fly (family Tipulidae) and in the subfamily Ctenophorinae. They are large and often look ichneumon- or wasp-like. The body is often polished and bright, or coloured black with large yellow, orange or red markings. Males have comb-like antennae, so we have a female here.


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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Whew! I just went back over this entire thread and noted which of mine are "pending" - will try to sort through them, send pics to experts, etc - and/or write them up as Family or Genus ID'd only, with the EXPERT Klippies 0/0 approval in the next few days-ish.

(Our family Christmas party is Saturday, so am busy with that - so many napkins to fold into Christmas tree shapes 0- , Preparation H gag gift to wrap for the "pain in the butt" member ;-), etc etc., so will have more time next week.) :yes:

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Re: AW Insect Book: Crickets, Grasshoppers & Locusts - Orthoptera

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Grasshopper Catantops sp. possibly Cantathops ochthephilus
Superfamily Acridoidea. Family Acrididae. Subfamily Catantopinae. Tribe Catantopini

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Garden in Randburg, Gauteng © BluTuna

Catantops grasshoppers occur in Africa, India and Southeast Asia. Three species are native to southern Africa. They look almost alike.
On the side of the pronotum is a discrete rectangular dark marking. The hind femora have two oblique black marks on the outer area.

Cantatops ochthephilus Jago.jpg
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http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Commo ... ID=1107699
http://www.biodiversityexplorer.info/or ... antops.htm
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25078343?s ... b_contents
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/250783 ... dae8b327b7


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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Please give us a location 0/*

It's a Hook-winged Net-winged Beetle, Lycus melanurus


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:ty: Klipspringer
Pretoria, SA


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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From Mrs Dwarf here in Nelspruit - 4cm

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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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Cute :-0

These things are often on social media and people say they are monkey moths or tiger moths, but this can be 100% wrong lol


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Yes, but who knows if the ID is correct lol


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