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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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YAY! Found one!!!! O/\ O/\ O/\ O/\

Tachinid fly / Hedgehog Fly / Porcupine Fly (Dejeania)

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(Some GREAT pics here, BluTuna ^Q^ ^Q^ ) Will try and help out with IDs.... next year O** O**
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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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Porcupine Fly =O:
magnificent picture ^Q^

have to post the Paper Wasp ??


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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mposthumus wrote:Image

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A King Cricket of the family Anostostomatidae.

There are 8 genera in SA. Possibly found in KNP: Libanasa, Libanasidus, Nasidius and Onosandrus.

-O- -O- -O- Nasidius is closest according to descriptions here http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/ ... tation.pdf


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nan wrote:
have to post the Paper Wasp ??

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Ja, you can post, nan ;-)


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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BluTuna wrote:YAY! Found one!!!! O/\ O/\ O/\ O/\

Tachinid fly / Hedgehog Fly / Porcupine Fly (Dejeania)

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Dejeania bombylans ;-) is the only one with pale yellow abdomen and black patches on the back

^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^

http://sdei.senckenberg.de/~openaccess/00520.pdf


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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Thank you Toko O0 Back with some new ones ;-)

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KNP - Mooiplaas


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Pls pardon the quality as the next three pictures as they were taken in the evening O**
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KNP - Tamboti


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Cicada? :-?
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