Insect or Invertebrates Identification - DONE

[Toko]

This one doesn't appear to have the bands on the abdomen, just plain green. Same as above, or different? Chrysomya or Lucilia sp.??


Sept. Kruger

According to this there are 7 species of Chrysomya

http://eprints.ru.ac.za/1951/1/Richards_et_al_2009c.pdf


How about female C. megacephala?

http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org/MM/ ... M1_MXa.jpg

http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org/species.asp?id=9197

Glossy, robust fly, 7-10mmBL. HEAD large red eyes; Male eyes meet topside, and have top 60% with distinctly larger facets; Female eyes widely separated topside and entirely with small facets. THORAX and ABDOMEN glossy dark blue to dark green. WINGS transparent.

Have googled the other ones mentioned in Villet's paper, they are all banded


But my feeling is more that is a Lucilia, perhaps Lucilia cuprina

http://www.efoto.lt/files/images/25378/ ... 6701-1.jpg

Adults are easy to distinguish due to bristles on the meron, in addition to the arista, the prominent hair on the terminal antennal segment being plumose, or feathery. L. cuprina are most easily identified by their strong dorsal setae and their black thoracic spiracle.

Here Lucilia sericata
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/liv ... ricata.htm


Perhaps M Villet would be so kind and identify for us

Looking at all the photos on the www, I am not sure if the IDs here are correct

https://africawild-forum.com/viewtopic.p ... 14#p147314

If I were you, I'd make it a Lucilia

[ExFmem]

Oops Posted flesh fly but made a mistake about the species (Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis), just now corrected...
Will do Re: Lucilia

[Toko]

Shall I just post this one as Rhinia sp. ?


Sept. Imfolozi

Looks similar to this one
http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthrea ... 0&pid=4409

don't think though it's Rhinia, because it does not have the huge "backpack"

But if we trust the link, it's a Rhiniine Blowfly
Family: Calliphoridae. Subfamily: Rhiniinae

Wonder if we are up to date with taxonomy, we could also make up a family Rhiniidae

[ExFmem]

Getting closer! I will read through all the entries tomorrow and see what they have to say. Interesting.

I also just posted the "Drone fly??" on their site as my first post, so hopefully will come up with some direction to head .

Now need guidance w/ this one please:



Family Ichneumonidae
Subfamily: Pimplinae

Re:Classification and checklist of Afrotropical pimpline wasps

Genus Theronia Holmgren, 1859

1.Theronia angustatrix Seyrig,1934 (Madagascar)
*2.Theronia lurida Tosquinet,1896 (Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe)
3.Theronia univittata Seyrig,1935 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

#2 is found in SA

?? Picker, etc says "three longitudinal black stripes on pronotum and black antennae…"

Mine only has 2 1/3 stripes

[Toko]

Ex Fmem

Does not look like this one: http://www.waspweb.org/Ichneumonoidea/I ... lurida.htm

[ExFmem]

Yep, you're right, doesn't match that one. Will move to the "needs further research" list. Thanks.

I did get a couple ballpark IDs of these two - nothing specific as to genus/species, but more info. than I had before. (From Diptera.info website experts)



Kruger
"a species of the subfamily Scholastinae of the Platystomatidae"




"Bombyliidae. Maybe Petrorossia sp."

[Toko]

Hehe - well done, ExFmem and if one googles further ......

http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthrea ... &pid=96758

[ExFmem]

There's also another that looks "exactly" like that one and mine, also from Tanzania. Shall I proceed as POSSIBLE Paryphodes sp., or keep it to Subfamily level, (or hold off a while longer)?

[Toko]

Bombyliidae. Maybe Petrorossia

looks very good, I'd say

[Toko]

There's also another that looks "exactly" like that one and mine, also from Tanzania. Shall I proceed as POSSIBLE Paryphodes sp., or keep it to Subfamily level, (or hold off a while longer)?

Paryphodes