Insect or Invertebrates Identification - DONE

[Klipspringer]

Klippies!

A big male then?

Are you happy now?

What's with your mammoth wasp, are going to ask an expert or do I add to the book without proper ID?

[Klipspringer]

ExFmem

This is an Anthomyia, perhaps A. amoena

Check out this paper, page 58, figures and page 55 description
https://journals.co.za/content/nmsa_ai/42/1/EJC84479

If you have a dorsal photo, it is easier

(I am now into the Diptera, and it's easier than expected, one can actually Id these georgous beasts)

[Klipspringer]

Long-nosed Fly

At first glance I thought it was this one

https://africawild-forum.com/viewtopic. ... 60#p276560

But it is another genus: Bombylisoma

Bombyliid guru Neil Evenhuis id'ed one on Ispot:
https://www.ispotnature.org/communities ... 7-modified

GREATHEAD & EVENHUIS: KEYS TO AFRICAN GENERA OF BOMBYLIOIDEA says, this genus has the metallic spots as well
https://journals.co.za/docserver/fullte ... 74C3E43EB8

10 Laterotergites hairy and r5 open or closed on wing margin ................................ 11

– Cell r5 broadly open, little if at all narrowed towards wing margin; palpi with one or two segments; hair not very short and sparse and/or with dense scales ......... 12

12 Palpi one-segmented; males holoptic; vein m-m much shorter than r-m; with spots of metallic scales at sides of frons and often on the thorax and abdomen.......... 13

13 Pulvilli well developed; frons usually without patches of silver scales at either side of antennae in males; gonocoxae without a prominent crest; phallosome with a large epiphallus bearing two horn-like outgrowths (Fig. 102) ................................Bombylisoma Rondani

Same key says, Bombyella is black:

vestiture usually predominantly black, hair long and tufted, usually with metallic or opalescent scales in spots on frons and often on thorax and abdomen .......... Bombylella

An ecological and conservation assessment of the fauna of Bombyliidae (Diptera) occurring in the Mkhuze, Phinda and False Bay reserves, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
https://journals.co.za/docserver/fullte ... 120AB04AC7

Bombylisoma Rondani, 1856
Distribution: Afrotropical and Palaearctic, also Oriental.
Similar to Bombylella in appearance. There are two species groups in Africa:
B. senegalense group are dull brown, black or yellowish with silvery scales on frons only and are found in open savanna and steppe; B. argyropugum/nucale group are black with bright hair and/or scales like Bombylella spp. and are found in woodland and forest.
Bombylisoma coracinum (Loew, 1863)
Distribution: South Africa (Free State, KZN*, ‘Transvaal’), southern Tanzania.

Good enough for me to put it to the book as Bombylisoma sp. What do you think?

This likely also not Bombyella:
https://africawild-forum.com/viewtopic. ... 61#p276561

[Richprins]

Are you happy now?

What's with your mammoth wasp, are going to ask an expert or do I add to the book without proper ID?

Yes, let's put it in so long!

(You are an expert! )

[Klipspringer]

Are you happy now?

What's with your mammoth wasp, are going to ask an expert or do I add to the book without proper ID?

Yes, let's put it in so long!

(You are an expert! )

If you send on to iziko's curator, you might become the second AW member to have their photos published for science.
I think, it's a very good move to contribute there and support this great project, called Wasp Web. Folks like us can learn are great deal from these sources.

[Richprins]

Ok! Was waiting for Prof Braack to return..

[Klipspringer]

[Richprins]

This TINY one is common here, not sure if it is a baby?

(5mm)

[Klipspringer]

Hasarius adansoni Adanson's Wall Jumper, probably the most common jumping spider in domestic surroundings.
5 mm is not tiny for a jumping spider, just average
This species does not grow larger.
The largest species in SA with up to 9mm is this one https://africawild-forum.com/viewtopic. ... 04#p495804

Very well done, good spotting and you captured all the relevant ID features, welcome to the salti enthusiasts

[Richprins]

You are a good teacher, Madam! Full of enthusiasm!