Africa Wild

RogerFraser wrote: ↑Sat Apr 11, 2020 7:32 pm A moth in the garden today by the braai

Roger, found it
viewtopic.php?p=495854#p495854


Apparently you could braai the caterpillar, but I do not recommend it

Must be a first for you to have an insect in the AW Book, Roger

Klipspringer wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2020 8:47 am

RogerFraser wrote: ↑Sat Apr 11, 2020 7:32 pm A moth in the garden today by the braai

Roger, found it
viewtopic.php?p=495854#p495854


Apparently you could braai the caterpillar, but I do not recommend it

Thanks Klippies .Not really into caterpillar on the braai but the way things going with the shutdown and finances ....

Lisbeth wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2020 9:49 am Must be a first for you to have an insect in the AW Book, Roger

Think I had some golden orb pics from Mkuhze some time ago

You'll need a lot of caterpillars

ExFmem wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2015 11:16 pm I feel your pain Lisbeth.

???? I've been looking at Paussidae, simply because of the pectinate antennae, but the fact that sometimes males and females have different antenna types in some families probably negates that approach. HELP!









KTP

ExFmem
This is a very special beetle , not only very cool in appearance but also ultra rare. Beetle enthusiats go crazy

Afremus sp.

http://tolweb.org/Afreminae/145033?

Entomologica Scandinavica article says:
Afremus pickeri sp. n. cf . Length 4.0 mm. Colour: head, pronotum and underside pitchy, except for pronotal margins being narrowly yellow-brown. Elytra and legs yellow-brown.

Does this match?

Afremus madgei sp. n. cf. Length 4.5 mm. Colour, head, pronotum and underside dark reddish brown, to almost black in * places; elytra and legs yellow-brown.

Does not fit, yours is not reddish.

So it's A. pickeri or another undiscribed Afremus, obviously the one from tolweb is also an undiscribed one.

Really the coolest find amongst all your Kalahari treasures

What a strange beast!

Oh WOW! Very interesting, to say the least. Thanks for your diligence - we make a good team - I have a camera and you have a brain!

I’ve been trying to ID this little beauty for a couple of days now, to no avail. Even went through the entire 308 pages of the link below, and the closest I came was Bembix sp., but that’s just on superficial appearance.

Taken in KTP at Twee R camp in October










https://www.sanbi.org/sites/default/fil ... ies-24.pdf

Thank you - no rest for the weary….

Not Bembix, but very beautiful.

But you have picked the correct tribe Bembicini

There really are some weird and also some beautiful beasts around