Insect or Invertebrates Identification - DONE

[Lisbeth]

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

Only when you get praised

[Richprins]

[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

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I checked it out and here's what it said:

Anthomyia amoena (Macquart, 1851) (Figs 123–132)
Male:
Colour: Interfrontalia, parafrontalia and genae varying from dark brown to blackish (with rather dense silvery dusting); parafrontals opposite lunule with a greyish shifting sheen stripe which extends from lunule to level of arista, and a blackish brown non- shifting spot in vibrissal angle which does not extend above genal groove when viewed in profile; face and occiput blackish (with normal dusting), except upper part of occiput greyish dusted. Antennae entirely dark brown to blackish. Palpi dark brown to black; arista paler basally; prementum dark brown, thinly dusted. Thorax (Figs 123, 124) densely dusted (over dark ground-colour) with contrasting black and silvery grey pattern on dorsal surface; transverse postsutural band across the scutum complete between wing bases (anterior and posterior margins more or less straight, the latter just reaching 2nd postsutural dorsocentral setae); presutural spots generally joined behind head, forming a rectangular spot which is indented medially on posterior margin, and only reaches 1st presutural dorsocentral setae (sometimes this presutural mark is divided by narrow grey dusted vittae, and in some specimens the spots are not joined but remain separate); scutellum black on basal two-thirds, with silvery grey tip extending along lateral margins (occasionally scutellum entirely dark). Pleura largely grey dusted, only lower part of the post pronotal lobes brownish black. Abdomen largely densely dusted over dark to orange ground-colour (basal tergites often orange-yellow and rather translucent depending on angle of vision), with contrasting black and grey pattern on tergites (black central vitta on 3rd and 4th tergite nearly as wide as hind femur (anteriorly wider and joined to a narrow black band which expands into a smallish triangular spot laterally); pregenital sclerite contrastingly shining brownish black (undusted); sternites yellowish, hypopygium and 5th sternite rather finely dusted. Wing membrane slightly brownish grey tinged, with orange-brown veins; squamae whitish with whitish fringes; halteres yellow. Legs entirely dark brown to orange.
Head: Parafrontalia very narrow posteriorly (touching for about half length of frons), widening anteriorly to about width of first flagellomere, parafacials rather narrow, two- thirds width of first flagellomere; eyes separated by less than width of anterior ocellus, frontal stripe very narrow above lunule, about 1.5 times diameter of anterior ocellus; genae setae below lowest point of eye margin 0.25–0.26 times eye-height. 2 pairs of short parafrontal setae on anterior third of distance between antennal base and anterior ocellus; interfrontal setulae apparently absent. First flagellomere rather narrow, nearly 3.4 times as long as wide, (apex not quite reaching lower facial margin); arista tapering from base to apex (not abruptly narrowing in distal two-thirds), short plumose, total width of hairing from slightly less to more than width of first flagellomere. Prementum about 0.4 times as long as head height.
Thorax: 3 pairs of presutural acrostichals (the middle pair slightly stronger, and placed closer to anterior pair than to posterior pair) in rows separated by about distance from each to adjacent dorsocentral row, without additional setulae in between (occasionally an isolated setulose hair present); acr / dc ratio 1:1:1; posthumerals1 + 1; prealar of same length as posterior notopleural; dorsal surface of scutellum bare centrally; katepisternals 2 + 2, lower posterior nearly as long as upper anterior seta, lower anterior half length of upper anterior; anepisternum with a developed upper anterior setula.
Legs: f2 with row of 3–4 pv on about basal third; f3 with 7–8 av in distal half; t1 with 1 median pv; t2 without ad, 1–2 pd and 2p/pv; t3 with 1 av, 5–6 ad, 2 pd and 3–4 pv.
Wing: costa with all marginal spinules short; the pair before distal break not or hardly differentiated; lower cross-vein sinuate, joining M1+2 obliquely; last section of M1+2 1.4 times length of preceding section. Lower squama as long as upper.
Wing length up to 5.0 mm.
Abdomen: Long ovate and rather short (1.5–1.7 times as long as wide), widest at 3rd tergite; dorsoventrally semi-compressed in basal two-thirds. 4th sternite (Fig. 127) about as long as wide, with a straight posterior margin, only lateral margins with long setae. 5th sternite processes (Figs 127, 128) with quite numerous setae laterally along whole length, otherwise with only short setulae on convex inner margins of processes (which are densely pilose); membranous lobes (Fig. 128) hardly projecting ventrally in lateral view, the apical setulae short. Central process of synsternite (6+7) (Figs 131, 132) with divergent or parallel arms, which are pilose. Surstylus weakly downcurved, apical half equally wide in lateral view, in profile upper dorsal margin with a well developed lobe. Cercal plate (Fig. 125) of about equal length and width, with a few short apical spinules and 1 pair of longer setulae on either side of them, otherwise setulose only on basal half, in profile apex weakly projecting, concealed behind surstylus. Pregonite small and short, not longer than wide (Fig. 129), with 2 normal setulae on distal margin, postgonite (Fig. 129) with an expanded setula on posterior ventral corner. Distal section of aedeagus (Fig. 130) long and slender, with a proclinate dorsal process slightly separated from its base, dorsal margin of distal section straight in lateral view, then abruptly flexed in distal half.
Female:
Colour: Head dark as in male. Thoracic pattern very similar to that of male. Abdomen with black and grey pattern on abdominal tergites similar to that of male (with central black marks often triangular (wide basally). Legs dark or orange as in male.
Head: Eyes widely separated (by slightly more than their transverse width, ratio 5:4:5); interfrontalia at level of middle orbitals about twice as wide as each parafrontal; frontal stripe narrowed anteriorly; parafrontalia widening anteriorly to about width of first flagellomere; genae below lowest point of eye margin about 0.27 times eye-height. Arista as in male (often with longer hairing). Parafrontal setae differentiated into 3 pairs of orbital setae (anterior setae normally proclinate, posterior two reclinate) + 2 pairs of (inwardly directed) frontal setae; crossed interfrontal setae well developed, their tips reaching margins of frontal stripe.
Thorax: Presutural acrostichal setulae slightly stronger than in male. Katepisternals 2 + 2, both lower setae about half length of upper setae. Dusted frontal triangle with a rounded anterior margin.
Legs: f2 with 1 av and 2 pv on basal half; f3 with 5 av (shorter basally), and 1 preapical pv; t1 with 1 p; t2 with 1 ad, 2 pd and 2 p/pv; t3 with 1 av, 4–5 ad and 2 pd.
Wing length up to 5.0 mm.
Abdomen: Postabdomen equal in length to preabdomen.
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Sounds definitive to me - when the presutural acrostichal setulae and the katepisternals coincide, and the cercal plate is in the flagellomere sphere, the hypopygium, squamae, interfrontalia, parafrontalia and genae are in alignment with the planetary forces of the Universe, and the age of Aquarius is upon us, with its Mystic crystal revelation, and the moon is in the Seventh House, it’s a certainty.

[ExFmem]

See previous page re: Anthomyia ID reply.

P.S. I don't have a dorsal view, nor a clue, for that matter. Totally up to you .

[Richprins]

These are interesting pics of worker termites preparing to send their queens off!

(S-36)

[Klipspringer]

Your observation? Which month? Where is the burrow?

Not Harvester termites

[Klipspringer]

Sounds definitive to me - when the presutural acrostichal setulae and the katepisternals coincide, and the cercal plate is in the flagellomere sphere, the hypopygium, squamae, interfrontalia, parafrontalia and genae are in alignment with the planetary forces of the Universe, and the age of Aquarius is upon us, with its Mystic crystal revelation, and the moon is in the Seventh House, it’s a certainty.

Glad you are in the seventh house and have discovered the holy grale

BTW: I love these keys very much Immagination runs high when you read these truly wonderful terms such as katepisternal When you know that these are just setae, it's less exciting to read

Anepimeral and take care

[Richprins]

Your observation? Which month? Where is the burrow?

Not Harvester termites

The burrows were in the road on the S36 near Talamati. December/January I think?

[Klipspringer]

I think, we will never know what they are

[ExFmem]

Klippies

The long-nose fly ID looks good to me