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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification - DONE
Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 11:33 pm
by Mel
Missed that. But thanks.
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 4:16 pm
by wynand
Super Mongoose wrote:Marakele, Bontle campsite's bathroom, November.
One of the more striking moths in our region, with a rather quaint name: Hampson's Salad.
Yes, that is it's common name; "Hampson's Salad".
Mittonia hampsoni.
See:
AfricanMoths. Scroll down the page and click on one of the thumbnails of a live specimen.
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 4:21 pm
by Mel
Hampson's Salad...
Poor critter.
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 4:31 pm
by Toko
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 4:40 pm
by Lisbeth
Methinks that we have another super identifier on the forum!!
Wynand
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 4:42 pm
by Toko
Mel wrote:Possibly a ground spitting beetle?
Photo by moggiedog, taken in Zim.
Can be any of the Anthia species
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 4:53 pm
by Mel
But it does have a bit of that white rim. And it
could be that it goes all around.
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 4:57 pm
by Toko
Mel wrote:But it does have a bit of that white rim. And it
could be that it goes all around.
Spot on, but there are other Anthia with white rim such as the apt named Anthia circumscripta
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 5:51 pm
by Mel
Worse than blurred spots on a cheetah.
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 5:53 pm
by Lisbeth
Insects etc. are not boring at all, with the right people around
