Insect or Invertebrates Identification - DONE

[ExFmem]

A couple more plant hoppers taken in KTP

[ExFmem]

KTP

[Klipspringer]

Do you have a more dorsal view of the brown one?

I think it's in the Fulgoridae

One of these:

Subfamily Strongylodematinae Fennah, 1962
Tribe Capocleini Emeljanov, 2004
Capocles Emeljanov, 2004

Tribe Strongylodematini Stål, 1853
Capenopsis Melichar, 1912
Codon Fennah, 1962
Strongylodemas Stål, 1853
Tecmar Fennah, 1962


https://www.hemiptera-databases.org/flowpdf/2500.pdf

check fig 2 in this paper and description
https://www.hemiptera-databases.org/flowpdf/3443.pdf

Is there anything in the field guide?

[Klipspringer]

The green one is in the Dictyopharidae, subfamily Dictyopharinae, but other than that I have no clue and nothing for reference.

[Klipspringer]

Thanks for the bee-fly photo, looks like another Anastoechus , you have quite a collection of these

[ExFmem]

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(KTP)

Is this the same as:

Egyptian Hoverfly Ischiodon aegyptius
Family: Syrphidae. Subfamily: Syrphinae. Tribe: Syrphini

https://africawild-forum.com/viewtopic. ... 47#p178447


Female, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Mata Mata © ExFmem

thanks! - Will get to the other replies from you later - dinner time.

[Klipspringer]

Is this the same as:

Egyptian Hoverfly Ischiodon aegyptius
Family: Syrphidae. Subfamily: Syrphinae. Tribe: Syrphini

Added and like it

[ExFmem]

Re: plant hoppers -
The Guidebook (Picker, etc) says Fulgoridae can be distinguished from related families by the combination of a very swollen first antennal segment, bearing a small bristle, and a network of veins in the fan-like basal (anal) area of the hindwing.

Dictyopharidae have wings narrow, often clear, but without network of tiny veins in the anal area….

I do not have any pics of the brown one dorsally. Both the brown and green one have similar antennae, and I obviously can’t see the hindwing of the brown one….so I’m fine with the green one being a Dictyopharidae and the brown being a Fulgoridae.

Seems most of the papers I’ve read on those two Families (from various areas worldwide), indicate a confused state presently, with definitive IDs and diagnostics in flux.

Will just have to put them away for now. But they are lil’ cutie pies.

[Klipspringer]

Ja, this subfamily of the brown ones has travelled around the taxonomic world, but I have checked again and I am almost convinced that we have the same as Fig 2.

[ExFmem]

I certainly agree with that.