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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 10:08 am
by Toko
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 12:08 pm
by Toko
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
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 10:42 am
by Flutterby
Any ideas here...seen at Pilanesberg.
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 11:33 am
by BluTuna
More to be identified for the AW Insect books.
Red-Veined Dropwing?????? It looks a bit different to the ones I usually see.
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 11:54 am
by Toko
Flutterby wrote:Any ideas here...seen at Pilanesberg.
a predatory katydid (Clonia)
we have to check which one
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:14 pm
by Toko
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
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:28 pm
by Flutterby
You're a star!!
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 3:37 pm
by Toko
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.
the body stripes look strange for a teneral male and it's not a female either
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:45 am
by Toko
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?
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?
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:53 am
by BluTuna
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?
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?
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.
