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Re: AW Insect Book: Beetles - Photos & Descriptions

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Videos OK, but without text, please O**

Better leave the AW books only with contributions from our members IMO.

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Dindingwe, great picture of the Turquoise Longhorn Beetle...but there's nothing turquoise about it!! lol lol


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I agree, but they say the whitish patches are sometimes greenish and the legs can sometimes have greenish reflections as well. I suppose that's why it has got this name :-?


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Aha! \O


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Re: AW Book of Insect and Invertebrates - Chat and discussion

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\O \O \O Klippies!


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Thank you so much Klipspringer \O O:V

It makes quite a web :shock: The name fits perfectly ;-)


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Re: AW Book of Insect and Invertebrates - Chat and discussion

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0/* Lisbeth


I have an update for this post.

viewtopic.php?p=215985#p215985


Here is another photo where you can see the uppder side of the hopper.
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Kruger National Park

and I am pretty sure that this is a Schulthessiella sp.

Common name: Twospur Bushhopper

There are six species in the genus, all endemic to the eastern parts of southern Africa:
Schulthessiella difficilis
Schulthessiella forficata
Schulthessiella longicornis
Schulthessiella minuta
Schulthessiella odzaniae
Schulthessiella sellata


Links: Biodiversity Expolorer


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And this one is a sister species

viewtopic.php?p=245181#p245181


make it a Lophothericles sp.

Link: http://www.biodiversityexplorer.info/or ... ricles.htm


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Thank you O/\

It still looks like a funny leaf to me lol

Added and corrected as well as I could. There are too many kinds of "families" etc., I get lost 0*\


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Great pics! \O \O


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