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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 1:58 pm
by BluTuna
Here's a fly that needs to be ID'd - it's either a Hoverfly or a Bee Fly or some other fly
Whatever it is, it has a long proboscis. Taken in Hartebeespoort.
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 3:34 pm
by Toko
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 3:54 pm
by BluTuna
Looks close enough to me, plenty of similar examples but I can't see any that are a match.
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 4:24 pm
by BluTuna
A couple of Dragonflies I took at Mount Amanzi.
This one looks like an Epaulet Skimmer (Orthetrum chrysostigma)
This one looks similar but it's not the same species.
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 6:27 pm
by wynand
Nice skimmer shots, BluTuna.
I concur. The top one is an Epaulet Skimmer, Orthetrum chrysostigma. The pale diagonal stripe on the thorax is visible.
The second one, I believe, is a teneral male Julia Skimmer, Orthetrum julia falsum. Blackish pterostigmata and a green thorax with black diagonal stripes.
Source: Tarboton & Tarboton 2012, PDF Edition. Dragonflies of SA
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 6:31 pm
by Toko
BluTuna wrote:A couple of Dragonflies I took at Mount Amanzi.
This one looks like an Epaulet Skimmer (Orthetrum chrysostigma)
Does match with photo and description:
Synthorax: dull dark brown, with a single, large, but indistinct, creamish grey side stripe. Becomes obscured with pruinescence in old individuals. Pruinescence light, but forms a greyish blue stripe between the wings.
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 12:49 pm
by Toko
BluTuna wrote:Here's a freaky-eyed fly that I can't ID.
Blowfly
Family Calliphoridae. Subfamily Rhiniinae. Also considered a family Rhiniidae.
Several similar looking ones there
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:08 pm
by BluTuna
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 11:43 am
by Toko
nan wrote:I've got some... a lot
... to ID
1. "normal" Beetle
- Kruger
I think an Armoured Darkling Beetle
Genus Anomalipus
Perhaps
Anomalipus elephas Large Armoured Darkling Beetle
Large (body length 28-38 mm), heavily built, entirely black. Head and pronotum smooth and lightly punctured, the latter expanded sideways and wider at the middle than abdomen. Elytra strongly sculptured, with several ribs.
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 12:09 pm
by Toko
nan wrote:
Kgalagadi
Lydomorphus bisignatus Slender Grey Blister Beetle
Medium-sized (body length 16 mm), elongate. Head black with greyish flat-lying hairs. Antennae long and thin. Pronotum orange. Elytra black, covered with greyish hairs.
For me it matches, if you look at this photo
http://www.google.de/imgres?sa=X&espvd= ... CFcQrQMwAA
