Africa Wild

Sphodromantis gastrica, African mantis or common green mantis

is one of the larger, commonest species; always apple green and havily built. I think it's a male, the female has reduced wings.

Their favourite food is caterpillars

Klippies!

nana?

I think of this one :
https://africawild-forum.com/viewtopic. ... 40#p156940
insectes or invertebrates ID p. 24

nan wrote: ↑Sat Oct 24, 2020 10:16 pm I think of this one :
https://africawild-forum.com/viewtopic. ... 40#p156940
insectes or invertebrates ID p. 24

nan

We have your green one here
https://africawild-forum.com/viewtopic. ... 07#p500307
the leaf mantis is much more exciting than the common green one

Klipspringer wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 9:10 am

nan wrote: ↑Sat Oct 24, 2020 10:16 pm I think of this one :
https://africawild-forum.com/viewtopic. ... 40#p156940
insectes or invertebrates ID p. 24

nan

We have your green one here
https://africawild-forum.com/viewtopic. ... 07#p500307
the leaf mantis is much more exciting than the common green one

thank you Klipspringer
I was very active "once upon the time"

Small fly, 7mm


Nelspruit

Difficult, perhaps fam. Lauxaniidae. Note the striped eye!

The Afrotropical lauxaniid fauna comprises approximately 28 genera and at least 90 described species. Lauxaniids are generally small acalyptrate flies, which can be identified, in the vast Afrotropical acalyptrate assemblage by, inter alia, their (a) lack of vibrissae, (b) two reclinate fronto-orbital bristles, (c) decussate (cruciate) postvertical bristles, (d) complete subcosta, (e) lack of costal breaks and (f) dorsal pre-apical tibial bristles.

The SANBI list has these ones:
Calliopum indecorum
Drepanephora lindneri
Dyticomyia oraria
Sapromyza affra
Sapromyza argus
Sapromyza guttulata
Sapromyza oestrachion
Sapromyza ringens
Lauxania atrovirens
Lauxania chlorogastra
Lauxania clypeata
Lauxania metallica
Lauxania oblonga
Prosamyza viridiventris
Teratolauxania cybeplax
Xangelina submetallica
Cainohomoneura delta
Cestrotus striatus
Cestrotus turritus
Cestrotus variegatus
Cestrotus megacephalus
Cestrotus oculatus
Cestrotus pictipennis
Cestrotus polygrammus
Homoneura trinotata
Homoneura obliquepunctata
Homoneura terminalis

A moth in the car, 2cm. Napi Road KNP

Can't you get a proper photo?

My immaginative powers suggest it might be this one

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/126738 ... wse_photos

Etiella zinckenella, the pulse pod borer moth or Zincken's Knothorn or Gold-banded Etiella Moth, is a moth of the family Pyralidae, a pest for many legumes

A HUGE butterfly, 8cm

Nelspruit