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Mark Eising wrote: ↑Sun Jul 26, 2020 12:12 pm


Found at Djamandjary, Nosy Be, Madagascar, on 29 February 2020. Hope anyone can help with identification.
Thanks, Mark Eising (markeisingbirding.com)

Mark

I am not familiar with insect fauna of Madagascar, but I like your photos.
This one could be a Diplacodes sp.

(Have merged all of your photos to one topic)

Mark Eising wrote: ↑Sun Jul 26, 2020 12:19 pm Praying Mantis sp. on Nosy Be, Madagascar


Found at Lokobe National Park, Nosy Be, Madagascar, on 22 February 2020. Hope anyone can help with identification.
Thanks, Mark Eising (markeisingbirding.com)


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This is Polyspilota aeruginosa

Thank you very much Klipspringer. Your reply is highly appreciated!

Mark Eising wrote: ↑Sun Jul 26, 2020 12:03 pm Found at Lokobe National Park, Nosy Be, Madagascar on 22 February 2020. Hope anyone can help with identification.
Thanks, Mark Eising (markeisingbirding.com)

This is a King Cricket in the family Anostostomatidae

Thank you very much Klipspringer!

Mark Eising wrote: ↑Sun Jul 26, 2020 12:04 pm Found at Lokobe National Park, Nosy Be, Madagascar on 22 February 2020. Hope anyone can help with identification.
Thanks, Mark Eising (markeisingbirding.com)

I think this is a nymph of a true cricket in the subfamily Gryllinae, possibly Brachytrupes membranaceus or closely realated species

If I look at photos of Anostostomatidae, I think this is also one of them.
B. membracaneua looks quite different I believe.

Mark Eising wrote: ↑Sun Jul 26, 2020 12:20 pm Found at Nosy Komba, Madagascar on 24 February 2020. Hope anyone can help with identification.
Thanks, Mark Eising (markeisingbirding.com)

Stick Insect in the family Bacillidae, lovely creatures

Mark Eising wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 12:49 pm If I look at photos of Anostostomatidae, I think this is also one of them.
B. membracaneua looks quite different I believe.

Might be anything, difficult to see if you don't have a proper view of the head, but it looks like Gryllidae to me due to the hind legs.

Mark Eising wrote: ↑Sun Jul 26, 2020 12:10 pm Found at Djamandjary, Nosy Be, Madagascar, 2 March 2020. Hope anyone can help with identification.
Thanks, Mark Eising (markeisingbirding.com)

This looks very much like a female Diplacodes trivialis which does probably not occur around Madagascar.

But it might help to find a related species.

Diplacodes lefebvrii and Diplacodes luminans are recorded from Madagascar

Is there some orange in the forewing?