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Toko wrote: Can anyone ID these lovely ticks



mposthumus, are yours from Kruger ?

would you like I ask my dog

ExFmem wrote:
My new best friend, mpost....!!! I was coming on here to post that I would just put mine in the Creatures Seen in the KTP as I thought no one else would ever be as weird, I mean as me, and then you come along.

By the way, your ticks are real cuties

I'll stick w/ the new topic Toko was gracious enough to start.

TICKS R US

I like the last one - it even has a snowman on it's back. Very holiday appropriate.

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Toko wrote:mposthumus, are yours from Kruger?

Kruger it is Toko (good ID on that one) To be more precise Transport dam 4/1/2012

nan wrote:would you like I ask my dog

Amblyomma hebraeum male and female


Now you can guess which one is the female

Is this also a Shieldback Locust (Pamphagidae) Toko?

Mopani - 27/12/2012

Yes, but I am not sure if it is a different species or the same (Pamphagidae is only the family)

I have not really searched these ones yet, perhaps I can get to genus ID level at least

Now we are wiser it is the subfamily Porthetinae

Either a a species of Lamarckiana, female
Lamarckiana Rain locusts
Identification: Large (body length 60-100 mm), generally uniformly grey, with very flattened antennae, and cream cheek and prothoracic stripe. Males winged. with smoky black hind wings; females wingless
Males call from trees by night.
There is a hearing organ on either side of her thorax
Lamarckiana are nocturnal

Or perhaps female Hoplolopha sp - don't know

Hoplolopha: Saw-backed locusts
Identification: Fairly large (body length 38-43 mm), typically with wingless females and winged males. Females are various shades of brownish and greenish grey, males steel grey with a cream cheek

Lobosceliana perhaps also for the second one
Identification: Large (body length 43-68 mm), brown, with tan pronotum edged with white stripe and with 2 brown wedge-shaped markings. Antennae broad and flattened. Males winged, with brown hind wings. Females wingless.

http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Commo ... ID=1117228

http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Commo ... ID=1117217

http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Commo ... ID=1117245

http://thesmallermajority.com/category/ ... ue/page/2/


Transvaaliana is another possible genus

At least I know now that these are two different ones

Interesting but way to complicated for me