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BluTuna wrote: Here are some more grasshopper/crickets to be ID'd for the insect book. All taken in my garden in Randburg.

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Species of Genus Phaneroptera, possibly P. sparsa

nan wrote:
19. a Leaf Beetle (Tortoise Beetle) ??? Namaqua Land

19.b

Eurychora species


Family: Tenebrionidae. Subfamily: Tentyriinae. Tribe Eurychorini

I find nothing Euryhota... Tenebrionidae
is Leaf Beetle (Tortoise Beetle) a good name... or
can't remember where I found this name

nan wrote: 17. Augrabies... I think

Darkling Beetle Stenocara species

Family: Tenebrionidae. Subfamily: Tentyriinae. Tribe Adesmiini

If from Augrabies, one of these

Stenocara aenescens
Stenocara brevicollis
Stenocara fitzsimonsi
Stenocara gracilipes
Stenocara kalaharica
Stenocara magnophthalma
Stenocara pisceflumine
Stenocara quadrimaculata

If Kgalagadi, I have to look

nan wrote:I find nothing Euryhota... Tenebrionidae
is Leaf Beetle (Tortoise Beetle) a good name... or
can't remember where I found this name

Does not have a name

Mouldy Beetle Species of Genus Eurychora

is the name

7.10.2012 = Augrabies

Toko wrote:

nan wrote:I find nothing Euryhota... Tenebrionidae
is Leaf Beetle (Tortoise Beetle) a good name... or
can't remember where I found this name

Does not have a name

Mouldy Beetle Species of Genus Eurychora

is the name

I found this one
will post

nan wrote:7.10.2012 = Augrabies

Make it a Racing-stripe Ground Beetle Stenocara gracilipes

14mm.

Hi

Are we sure with the ID of this one?

According to the KNP list there are these ones and they look all more or less alike


Colotis amata calais
Colotis antevippe gavisa
Colotis auxo
Colotis celimene amina
Colotis danae annae
Colotis euippe omphale
Colotis evagore antigone Small Orange Tip (which I think it is )
Colotis evenina evenina Common Orange Tip
Colotis ione
Colotis pallene
Colotis regina
Colotis vesta argillaceus

"The black spot in M3 of at the basal edge of the orange tip is diagnostic" says sb on iSpot for Small Orange Tip

Here a confirmed one which looks like this
http://vmus.adu.org.za/vm_view_record.p ... 31&recNo=6

Common Orange Tip, Orange Tip Colotis evenina evenina Oranjepuntjie
Family: Pieridae

Male © BluTuna
Kruger National Park

Description
Wingspan: ♂ 38–45 mm ♀ 35–42 mm
Sexually and seasonally dimorphic; upperside resembles a small Red Tip.

Distribution
Throughout the drier parts of Southern Africa.

Habitat
A common and widespread species in savanna and woodland of southern Africa. It favours low-laying hot areas aand avoids woodlands, thickets, slopes.

Biology
Larval food plants include species of Boscia and Capparis (Capparaceae).
Flight period: Year-round, depending on rainfall.

And then we have this one from leachy





And this might be the
Colotis evenina evenina Common Orange Tip

or the

Colotis antevippe gavisa Red Tip

or perhaps
Colotis euippe omphale Smoky Orange Tip


They are all seasonally polymorphic