Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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The fly is a robber fly. Klippie can offer more specifics O0


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ExFmem wrote: ↑Sat Feb 06, 2021 5:43 pm The fly is a robber fly. Klippie can offer more specifics O0

I am useless with robber flies, but just for the fun of guessing: Alcimus sp.


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A tiny bug, 5mm, Marloth October:


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Is it on a tree trunk, a pole?

This kind of context is an important clue, please always report where you found it

Night?


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Daytime, deck of the house! \O


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Flea beetle?

Is the fat thing an enlarged hind leg? -O-


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The black dot is the eye!

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That looks right! \O \O


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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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Likely a species of the mega diverse genus Longitarsus

They look like this

http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Tax ... xid=167625


In the Afrotropical Region, the genus Longitarsus includes about 120 described species, but many other yet undescribed taxa exist.


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