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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2021 3:21 pm
by Alf
Klipspringer wrote: ↑Fri Jan 01, 2021 2:32 pm
One of the Goliath beetles.
You can feed her fruit.
That’s why our tomato in the garden was eaten up
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2021 3:22 pm
by Alf
Lisbeth wrote: ↑Fri Jan 01, 2021 2:37 pm
Your lawn needs mowing, Alfie
The guy working in our complex is on leave
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification - DONE
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2021 6:05 pm
by Richprins
You must say how big it were, Alpheus!
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification - DONE
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2021 6:11 pm
by Lisbeth
It's written somewhere in Klippie's answer
Size: 30-60 mm.
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification - DONE
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2021 6:25 pm
by Klipspringer
Forget to say: Well done, Alf. Photo not blurred + relevant ID features captured + location and date given = a good candidate for a correct identification
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification - DONE
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2021 7:08 pm
by Alf
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2021 6:44 pm
by Klipspringer
nan wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2017 10:00 pm
I don't know if somebody has already seen this one
Upington, 10.12.2017
a stunk bug nymph in the tribe Halyini, a member of the Stink Bugs Family Pentatomidae
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:42 pm
by Klipspringer
ExFmem wrote: ↑Tue Dec 29, 2020 1:12 am
2016 Kruger
Closest match is
Peucetia pulchra
https://books.google.de/books?id=RKs_Dw ... de&f=false
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 12:09 am
by ExFmem
Here are some mantids from 2015 and 2016 KTP. The two 2015 entries are not the same individual, but perhaps the same genus/sp. (?) As far as
M. religiosa, it seems there is a distinctive feature on the legs, but my pics don’t show that part, unfortunately.
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 12:10 am
by ExFmem