Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 4:12 pm
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Insect or Invertebrates Identification - DONE
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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 5:49 pm
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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 6:52 pm
KTP
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:02 pm
Imfolozi
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 1:23 pm
ExFmem wrote:
KTP
Acrotylus diana ???
http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http ... KABEK0DMBY
Acrotylus patruelis is also recorded there, but can not find a photo for reference
http://www.koedoe.co.za/index.php/koedo ... le/597/626
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 3:28 pm
BluTuna wrote:Some more from my garden....
I thought this was a Cotton-Stainer Assassin Bug (Platymeris) but Toko disagrees.
Phonoctonus sp. perhaps
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 3:45 pm
There are only 3 species reported in the SA list
Genus: PHONOCTONUS
P. nigrofasciatus Stål 1855
Zimbabwe, KwaZulu-Natal, E. Cape.
P. principalis Gerstaecker
E. Africa, South Africa, Eastern Cape.
P. fasciatus Palisot de Beauvois 1805
W. Africa, C. Africa, E. Africa, Congo, Angola.
And it is NOT P. fasciatus
http://books.google.de/books?id=1prNdUu ... us&f=false
Genus: PHONOCTONUS
P. nigrofasciatus Stål 1855
Zimbabwe, KwaZulu-Natal, E. Cape.
P. principalis Gerstaecker
E. Africa, South Africa, Eastern Cape.
P. fasciatus Palisot de Beauvois 1805
W. Africa, C. Africa, E. Africa, Congo, Angola.
And it is NOT P. fasciatus
http://books.google.de/books?id=1prNdUu ... us&f=false
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 3:47 pm
Your guess is much better than mine. I found a couple of pictures of this bug when I Googled it but it depends on how much you trust the information on the Internet. I gather that the Cotton-Stainer Bugs are plant eaters; if so, this one is definitely not one of those, one picture I found shows it consuming an insect.Toko wrote:BluTuna wrote:Some more from my garden....
I thought this was a Cotton-Stainer Assassin Bug (Platymeris) but Toko disagrees.
Phonoctonus sp. perhaps
http://pixmag.ning.com/photo/cottonstai ... ntext=user
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 4:02 pm
The field guide says, this genus has the white banded underside!
And they are not plant feeders, but the cotton stainer bugs are and they mimic these ones as they prey on them
And they are not plant feeders, but the cotton stainer bugs are and they mimic these ones as they prey on them
Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 4:15 pm
Which makes it an Assassin Bug!Toko wrote:The field guide says, this genus has the white banded underside!
And they are not plant feeders, but the cotton stainer bugs are and they mimic these ones as they prey on them
Another one done and dusted