Africa Wild

TonyR

Welcome here to the insect nerds

I think this a Large Crane Fly (family Tipulidae) and in the subfamily Ctenophorinae. They are large and often look ichneumon- or wasp-like. The body is often polished and bright, or coloured black with large yellow, orange or red markings. Males have comb-like antennae, so we have a female here.

Whew! I just went back over this entire thread and noted which of mine are "pending" - will try to sort through them, send pics to experts, etc - and/or write them up as Family or Genus ID'd only, with the EXPERT Klippies approval in the next few days-ish.

(Our family Christmas party is Saturday, so am busy with that - so many napkins to fold into Christmas tree shapes , Preparation H gag gift to wrap for the "pain in the butt" member , etc etc., so will have more time next week.)

Happy Holidays fellow bug-huggers .

Grasshopper Catantops sp. possibly Cantathops ochthephilus
Superfamily Acridoidea. Family Acrididae. Subfamily Catantopinae. Tribe Catantopini


Garden in Randburg, Gauteng © BluTuna

Catantops grasshoppers occur in Africa, India and Southeast Asia. Three species are native to southern Africa. They look almost alike.
On the side of the pronotum is a discrete rectangular dark marking. The hind femora have two oblique black marks on the outer area.

Links:
http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Commo ... ID=1107699
http://www.biodiversityexplorer.info/or ... antops.htm
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25078343?s ... b_contents
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/250783 ... dae8b327b7

Please give us a location

It's a Hook-winged Net-winged Beetle, Lycus melanurus

Klipspringer
Pretoria, SA

From Mrs Dwarf here in Nelspruit - 4cm

Cute

These things are often on social media and people say they are monkey moths or tiger moths, but this can be 100% wrong

Isn't it this one? viewtopic.php?p=245419#p245419

Yes, but who knows if the ID is correct