Insect or Invertebrates Identification - DONE

[BluTuna]

Here's a fly that needs to be ID'd - it's either a Hoverfly or a Bee Fly or some other fly

Whatever it is, it has a long proboscis. Taken in Hartebeespoort.

[Toko]

I think a Bombyliid bee-fly

Bombylella sp

[BluTuna]

I think a Bombyliid bee-fly

Bombylella sp

Looks close enough to me, plenty of similar examples but I can't see any that are a match.

[BluTuna]

A couple of Dragonflies I took at Mount Amanzi.

This one looks like an Epaulet Skimmer (Orthetrum chrysostigma)


This one looks similar but it's not the same species.

[wynand]

Nice skimmer shots, BluTuna.

I concur. The top one is an Epaulet Skimmer, Orthetrum chrysostigma. The pale diagonal stripe on the thorax is visible.

The second one, I believe, is a teneral male Julia Skimmer, Orthetrum julia falsum. Blackish pterostigmata and a green thorax with black diagonal stripes.
Source: Tarboton & Tarboton 2012, PDF Edition. Dragonflies of SA

[Toko]

A couple of Dragonflies I took at Mount Amanzi.

This one looks like an Epaulet Skimmer (Orthetrum chrysostigma)

Does match with photo and description:

Synthorax: dull dark brown, with a single, large, but indistinct, creamish grey side stripe. Becomes obscured with pruinescence in old individuals. Pruinescence light, but forms a greyish blue stripe between the wings.

[Toko]

Here's a freaky-eyed fly that I can't ID.

Blowfly
Family Calliphoridae. Subfamily Rhiniinae. Also considered a family Rhiniidae.

Several similar looking ones there

[BluTuna]

[Toko]

I've got some... a lot ... to ID

1. "normal" Beetle - Kruger

I think an Armoured Darkling Beetle

Genus Anomalipus



Perhaps Anomalipus elephas Large Armoured Darkling Beetle
Large (body length 28-38 mm), heavily built, entirely black. Head and pronotum smooth and lightly punctured, the latter expanded sideways and wider at the middle than abdomen. Elytra strongly sculptured, with several ribs.

[Toko]

Kgalagadi

Lydomorphus bisignatus Slender Grey Blister Beetle
Medium-sized (body length 16 mm), elongate. Head black with greyish flat-lying hairs. Antennae long and thin. Pronotum orange. Elytra black, covered with greyish hairs.



For me it matches, if you look at this photo
http://www.google.de/imgres?sa=X&espvd= ... CFcQrQMwAA