Insect or Invertebrates Identification - DONE

[Toko]

Ja, very elegant

[nan]

in wedding dress

[ExFmem]

KTP

[ExFmem]

Imfolozi

[Toko]

KTP

Acrotylus diana ???

http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http ... KABEK0DMBY

Acrotylus patruelis is also recorded there, but can not find a photo for reference

http://www.koedoe.co.za/index.php/koedo ... le/597/626

[Toko]

Some more from my garden....

I thought this was a Cotton-Stainer Assassin Bug (Platymeris) but Toko disagrees.

Phonoctonus sp. perhaps

[Toko]

There are only 3 species reported in the SA list

Genus: PHONOCTONUS
P. nigrofasciatus Stål 1855
Zimbabwe, KwaZulu-Natal, E. Cape.
P. principalis Gerstaecker
E. Africa, South Africa, Eastern Cape.
P. fasciatus Palisot de Beauvois 1805
W. Africa, C. Africa, E. Africa, Congo, Angola.

And it is NOT P. fasciatus

http://books.google.de/books?id=1prNdUu ... us&f=false

[BluTuna]

Some more from my garden....

I thought this was a Cotton-Stainer Assassin Bug (Platymeris) but Toko disagrees.

Phonoctonus sp. perhaps

Your guess is much better than mine. I found a couple of pictures of this bug when I Googled it but it depends on how much you trust the information on the Internet. I gather that the Cotton-Stainer Bugs are plant eaters; if so, this one is definitely not one of those, one picture I found shows it consuming an insect.
http://pixmag.ning.com/photo/cottonstai ... ntext=user

[Toko]

The field guide says, this genus has the white banded underside!

And they are not plant feeders, but the cotton stainer bugs are and they mimic these ones as they prey on them

[BluTuna]

The field guide says, this genus has the white banded underside!

And they are not plant feeders, but the cotton stainer bugs are and they mimic these ones as they prey on them

Which makes it an Assassin Bug!

Another one done and dusted