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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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O/\ O/\ O/\ Have Id'ed BluTuna's one with the Virtual Museum database, it's Colotis evagore antigone Small Orange Tip

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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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I am still not sure for leachy's butterfly, but I think it's the Orange Tip, because the Wet Season Form of the Smoky should have two dark bars: a broad black cross bar centrally and across the lower part of the hindwing.

So I make it the Orange Tip =O:


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Any ideas here...seen at Pilanesberg.

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More to be identified for the AW Insect books.

Red-Veined Dropwing?????? It looks a bit different to the ones I usually see.
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Flutterby wrote:Any ideas here...seen at Pilanesberg.

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a predatory katydid (Clonia)

we have to check which one ^0^


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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This one!

http://eol.org/pages/858711/overview

http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Commo ... eID=140978

Clonia wahlbergi Winged Predatory Katydid Identification: Very large (body length 40-65 mm), slender, body apple green with silvery markings. Wings fully developed or slightly shortened, as in all members of the genus.

Verbreitung: Zimbabwe , Süd-Mozambique, östl. Südafrika, Namibia


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You're a star!! 0/0


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BluTuna wrote:More to be identified for the AW Insect books.

Red-Veined Dropwing?????? It looks a bit different to the ones I usually see.
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-O- -O- the body stripes look strange for a teneral male and it's not a female either O-/


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BluTuna wrote:More to be identified for the AW Insect books.

Not sure about this one either. It's a Carpenter Bee but is it a Xylocopa caffra?
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There is not much info to find on the other species of Xylocopa. But on ispot they have IDed all carpenters with yellow bands as Xylocopa caffra ;-)

Do I include it to the entry? --00--


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Toko wrote:
BluTuna wrote:More to be identified for the AW Insect books.

Not sure about this one either. It's a Carpenter Bee but is it a Xylocopa caffra?
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There is not much info to find on the other species of Xylocopa. But on ispot they have IDed all carpenters with yellow bands as Xylocopa caffra ;-)

Do I include it to the entry? --00--
But this one has white bands! I'm not certain that it's not a Giant Carpenter Bee so let's leave it off of the entry. \O


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