Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 5:43 pm
The fly is a robber fly. Klippie can offer more specifics 
I am useless with robber flies, but just for the fun of guessing: Alcimus sp.
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Insect or Invertebrates Identification
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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 11:05 pm
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 4:53 pm
A tiny bug, 5mm, Marloth October:
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 5:38 pm
Is it on a tree trunk, a pole?
This kind of context is an important clue, please always report where you found it
Night?
This kind of context is an important clue, please always report where you found it
Night?
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:32 pm
Daytime, deck of the house! 
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 7:16 pm
Flea beetle?
Is the fat thing an enlarged hind leg?
Is the fat thing an enlarged hind leg?
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:28 am
The black dot is the eye!
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:51 am
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:19 am
That looks right!
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:48 am
Likely a species of the mega diverse genus Longitarsus
They look like this
http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Tax ... xid=167625
In the Afrotropical Region, the genus Longitarsus includes about 120 described species, but many other yet undescribed taxa exist.
They look like this
http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Tax ... xid=167625
In the Afrotropical Region, the genus Longitarsus includes about 120 described species, but many other yet undescribed taxa exist.