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A couple more plant hoppers taken in KTP

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Do you have a more dorsal view of the brown one?

I think it's in the Fulgoridae

One of these:

Subfamily Strongylodematinae Fennah, 1962
Tribe Capocleini Emeljanov, 2004
Capocles Emeljanov, 2004

Tribe Strongylodematini Stål, 1853
Capenopsis Melichar, 1912
Codon Fennah, 1962
Strongylodemas Stål, 1853
Tecmar Fennah, 1962


https://www.hemiptera-databases.org/flowpdf/2500.pdf

check fig 2 in this paper and description
https://www.hemiptera-databases.org/flowpdf/3443.pdf

Is there anything in the field guide?

The green one is in the Dictyopharidae, subfamily Dictyopharinae, but other than that I have no clue and nothing for reference.

Thanks for the bee-fly photo, looks like another Anastoechus , you have quite a collection of these

(KTP)

Is this the same as:

Egyptian Hoverfly Ischiodon aegyptius
Family: Syrphidae. Subfamily: Syrphinae. Tribe: Syrphini

https://africawild-forum.com/viewtopic. ... 47#p178447


Female, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Mata Mata © ExFmem

thanks! - Will get to the other replies from you later - dinner time.

ExFmem wrote: ↑Sat May 23, 2020 11:45 pm
Is this the same as:

Egyptian Hoverfly Ischiodon aegyptius
Family: Syrphidae. Subfamily: Syrphinae. Tribe: Syrphini

Added and like it

Re: plant hoppers -
The Guidebook (Picker, etc) says Fulgoridae can be distinguished from related families by the combination of a very swollen first antennal segment, bearing a small bristle, and a network of veins in the fan-like basal (anal) area of the hindwing.

Dictyopharidae have wings narrow, often clear, but without network of tiny veins in the anal area….

I do not have any pics of the brown one dorsally. Both the brown and green one have similar antennae, and I obviously can’t see the hindwing of the brown one….so I’m fine with the green one being a Dictyopharidae and the brown being a Fulgoridae.

Seems most of the papers I’ve read on those two Families (from various areas worldwide), indicate a confused state presently, with definitive IDs and diagnostics in flux.

Will just have to put them away for now. But they are lil’ cutie pies.

Ja, this subfamily of the brown ones has travelled around the taxonomic world, but I have checked again and I am almost convinced that we have the same as Fig 2.

I certainly agree with that.