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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 8:38 am
by Klipspringer
nan wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:57 pm
Armoured Darkling Beetle ???
or
like this one
This is an
Omorgus, a Bone Beetle of the family Keratin Beetles (Trogidae)
3 species are recorded from KTP:
asperulatus, squalidus and
freyi.
Fun fact:
Beetles are believed to make up approximately 40% of total arthropod diversity. The widely accepted estimate for athropods falls between five and 80 million species globally.
The Coleoptera, with probably much more than 400,000 species, is the largest of all orders, constituting 25% of all known animal life-forms.
And many of them can be identified with almost certainty
The Trogidae represent a lineage of keratin-feeding Scarabaeoidea, the only group in the superfamily to do so and one of few insect groups capable of digesting keratin.
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:28 am
by Richprins
Klipspringer wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 6:59 pm
Richprins wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 6:04 pm
A chafer beetle then?
and now look at the antennae - what is odd looking there?
It has Laminated antennae!
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 6:43 pm
by Klipspringer
3 lamellae are standard for the subfamily.
Just keep looking and eventually we will get there
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 11:44 pm
by nan
Klipspringer wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 8:38 am
nan wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:57 pm
Armoured Darkling Beetle ???
or
like this one
This is an
Omorgus, a Bone Beetle of the family Keratin Beetles (Trogidae)
3 species are recorded from KTP:
asperulatus, squalidus and
freyi.
Fun fact:
Beetles are believed to make up approximately 40% of total arthropod diversity. The widely accepted estimate for athropods falls between five and 80 million species globally.
The Coleoptera, with probably much more than 400,000 species, is the largest of all orders, constituting 25% of all known animal life-forms.
And many of them can be identified with almost certainty
The Trogidae represent a lineage of keratin-feeding Scarabaeoidea, the only group in the superfamily to do so and one of few insect groups capable of digesting keratin.
thank you Klipspringer
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2021 10:37 am
by Richprins
The antenna has 3 fingers?
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2021 2:38 pm
by Klipspringer
Richprins wrote: ↑Thu Feb 25, 2021 10:37 am
The antenna has 3 fingers?
Yes, that is good for many scarabs. Now the other end of the antennae
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2021 12:22 am
by ExFmem
Here’s a pic of a different individual (not the same spider as in the AW entry) I took in Kruger. Could it be a female of
Oxyopes vogelsangeri, since the abdomen is larger/rounder?
I obviously know NOTHING about spider ID, nor do I have a book, but couldn’t find pics /info on-line.
(Is “body-shaming” an unwoke no-no when it comes to invertebrates?) I’m so-o-o uninformed with all this new nonsense….eish.
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2021 10:32 am
by Klipspringer
ExFmem wrote: ↑Fri Feb 26, 2021 12:22 am
Here’s a pic of a different individual (not the same spider as in the AW entry) I took in Kruger. Could it be a female of
Oxyopes vogelsangeri, since the abdomen is larger/rounder?
I obviously know NOTHING about spider ID, nor do I have a book, but couldn’t find pics /info on-line.
(Is “body-shaming” an unwoke no-no when it comes to invertebrates?) I’m so-o-o uninformed with all this new nonsense….eish.
quite a fattie
Difficult, perhaps send to Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman and ask for ID ?
The South African National Survey of Arachnida
(SANSA) is still busy with its first drafts of photo
guides. If you want to be put on the mailing list,
send an email to Prof. Dippenaar-Schoeman at
DippenaarA@arc.agric.za. If you want to
contribute photos to the guide, please send
them to the same address, together with the
location and, if possible, the identification
http://www.spiderclub.co.za/wp-content/ ... 0-12-b.pdf
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2021 9:28 pm
by ExFmem
Richprins wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 5:07 pm
Medium beetle, 2cm, Marloth:
Ant's nest chafer? Antennae can be retracted to reduce chances of attack by ants - and I saw a similar looking beetle on iSpot
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2021 9:44 pm
by Klipspringer
ExFmem wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 9:28 pm
Richprins wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 5:07 pm
Medium beetle, 2cm, Marloth:
Ant's nest chafer? Antennae can be retracted to reduce chances of attack by ants - and I saw a similar looking beetle on iSpot
Scaptobius it is.
Any insights on the ant connection?