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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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ExFmem wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2016 1:59 am

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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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Klippies: "BTW: I love these keys very much lol Immagination runs high when you read these truly wonderful terms such as katepisternal :-0 When you know that these are just setae, it's less exciting to read".

There is an old adage that identification keys are “Written for people who cannot use them, by people who do not need them”. I'm in the former category. 0-

I don't think these pics will help much w/ venation, :no: :no: but here they are:
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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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You won't believe, but it helps, the last photo shows some good stuff.
The cell dm end to the M2 base looks different for Australoechus/Anastoechus vs Systoechus (have been looking at the wing images in the Afro Diptera Manual now for several days =O: to see the difference). Yours does not look like Systoechus.
Australoechus would have the cell br longer than cell bm, which is not the case here, so I'd go for Anastoechus O/\ O/\


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^Q^ ^Q^

Agreed 100%!


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OK, it's actually very easy to see, even Richprins will see the difference comparing the crossvein between the cells dm and M2
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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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ExFmem wrote: Tue Dec 19, 2017 10:12 pm And a few more insects for nan ;-)

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If you look at the photos for this one, we can tell the genus ID, too O**


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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ExFmem wrote: Sat Jan 02, 2016 6:12 pm I now try to capture the beauty of insects through photography, and the Kgalagadi has some really wonderful specimens.

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This fly belongs to the same group as well, but without wing photo, we can not make a call on genus.

Perhaps ExFmem has more photos?


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Re: Jumping Spider IDs and Comments

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Maybe this is the female of the wall one..about 1cm?

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