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Posted: **Thu May 07, 2020 8:05 am**

ExFmem wrote: ↑Sat May 02, 2020 8:12 pm 2017 KTP Apr.-May

File 1

I have been looking searching and meditating over this one now for a week and it is none of the described genera, we can only label it a member of the subtribe Aelurillina .

Still a lovely little spider

Posted: **Thu May 07, 2020 9:15 am**

Posted: **Thu May 07, 2020 11:51 am**

Klippies!

Posted: **Thu May 07, 2020 7:45 pm**

Thanks for the Kruger Hover Fly entry. $\O$

Here's a Hover Fly from KTP.

Posted: **Thu May 07, 2020 8:12 pm**

ExFmem wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 6:16 pm Sept./Kruger

2017 file 11

This is a juvenile Stenaelurillus guttiger.

Objections?

Posted: **Thu May 07, 2020 8:45 pm**

This one is misidentified, it is actually Allograpta fuscotibialis

BluTuna wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2013 10:31 am Migrant Hoverfly Eupeodes corollae
Family: Syrphidae. Subfamily: Syrphinae

© BluTuna
Male

© BluTuna
Garden in Johannesburg

Description
Adults are 6–11 mm in body length. Wingspan: 10-12 mm. Males and females have different marking on the abdomen; males have square commas on tergites 3 and 4, whereas females have narrow commas.

Distribution
E. corollae is found across Europe, North Africa and Asia. Adults are often migratory. A widespread species that has been introduced to South Africa where it is common.

Habitat
It can turn up in almost any open habitat: Fynbos, patches of flowers in fields, road verges, gardens.

Biology
Females of Eupeodes corollae lay up to 1000 eggs. One single E. corollae larvae can suck out more than 800 aphids. In Eurasia more than 60 different species of aphids and related insects are known as prey of the E. corollae larvae. The larva grows for about 10 days (depending on the temperature) and then pupate. After another 8-9 days the adult hatches. In Central Europe there are several (up to 4-6) generations of E. corollae per year. It it obvious that species like E. corollae can affect the number of aphids in a biotope.

Links: Biodiversity Explorer
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... _of_genera

And ExFmem's is the male Eupeodes corollae

Do you agree?

Posted: **Thu May 07, 2020 11:23 pm**

Klipspringer wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 8:45 pm This one is misidentified, it is actually Allograpta fuscotibialis

BluTuna wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2013 10:31 am Migrant Hoverfly Eupeodes corollae
Family: Syrphidae. Subfamily: Syrphinae

© BluTuna
Male

© BluTuna
Garden in Johannesburg

And ExFmem's is the male Eupeodes corollae

Do you agree?

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Posted: **Thu May 07, 2020 11:26 pm**

ExFmem wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 7:45 pm
Here's a Hover Fly from KTP.

"And ExFmem's is the male Eupeodes corollae

Do you agree?"

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Posted: **Thu May 07, 2020 11:36 pm**

Klipspringer wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 8:12 pm
ExFmem wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 6:16 pm Sept./Kruger

2017 file 11

This is a juvenile Stenaelurillus guttiger.

Objections?

Nope, totally on board with that.

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2020 12:28 pm**

ExFmem wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 6:15 pm Sept./Kruger

2017 file 8

Can you check if this one (file 8) is maybe the same as file 7?

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