Africa Wild

Now you found something very exciting: A rather rare and very cool hover fly: Paragus capricorni

( Your beetle is the yellow variant of Lunate Lady Beetle)

Phyllocrania paradoxa

https://www.google.de/books/edition/Cam ... frontcover

mposthumus wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 5:26 pm Need an ID on these two please? Taken during my recent trip to KNP (Satara region)

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Thanx

Lienard's Achaea
Achaea lienardi

a very variable species
https://www.afromoths.net/species/show/33446

You get 3 look-alikes in the area:
Squinting Bush Brown (Bicyclus anynana)
Common Bush Brown (Bicyclus safitza)
Marsh Patroller (Brakefieldia perspicua)

You have two different ones

The first one is very likely a Scopula as you are saying, S. serena wood look like this, but there may be look-alikes

Does Chiasmia grimmia fit? https://vmus.adu.org.za/vm_view_db.php?database=sabca&prj_acronym=LepiMAP&db=sabca&URL=http://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=LepiMAP&Logo=images/lepimap_logo.png&Headline=Atlas%20of%20African%20Lepidoptera&Use_main_filter=1&User_id=&Full_name=&serve_sp_list=1&drop_down_list=0 ...

The Christmas beetle may be a Schizonycha sp. There are 300 or so species recorded from Africa. They have these long thin legs ;-) Great, thanks! :ty: According to this site , there are 23 species of Schizonycha in Namibia. Still to much to get to species-level... There is a key, but the photo does ...

Orthetrum julia falsum male

I think you are spot on with Patania/Pleuroptya balteata.

The rhino beetle could be a Cyphonistes vallatus female. But females are difficult.