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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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BluTuna wrote:This one came from my SO's work at Hartebeeshoek, Gauteng.

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Solygia sulcaüfrons or Ischnomantis fatiloqua are the only one I can find in similar shape :-?


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Toko wrote:
BluTuna wrote:This one came from my SO's work at Hartebeeshoek, Gauteng.

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Solygia sulcatifrons or Ischnomantis fatiloqua are the only ones I can find with similar shape :-?
But I might be superwrong 0:


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If that's the only mention of those two species then | give up! 0:


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You tell me to give up =O:

well then ... we have a X#X


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BluTuna wrote:Still on the road to N'wanetsi, I got lucky with some birds in flight.

From the lookout, we watched a Crocodile takes a leisurely swim around the pool.

A Wasp with its Grasshopper prey was on the path near the bottom of the hill. I only got two pictures of this as a Touron with even less manners than usual, who could not wait for a few seconds, barged past me and scared the wasp away.
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Sphex sp. Digger Wasp
Family: Sphecidae; Subfamily: Sphecinae; Tribe: Sphecini

They prey on katydids in the family Tettigoniidae.

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On the wind screen somewhere in Southern Kruger?

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Family Thericleidae O:V Lis 0: 0: 0: I have no clue :-?

Good looking guy with green legs on brown body, stylish knee shape also X#X


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=O:


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A Corn Cricket and according to the region we spotted them, it's the Acanthoproctus Cervinus, but the colour in my book is totally different, light green and yellow.

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Super Mongoose wrote:A Corn Cricket and according to the region we spotted them, it's the Acanthoproctus Cervinus, but the colour in my book is totally different, light green and yellow.

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Acanthoplus longipes (I think!) or discoidales ^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^

Both reported from the Gariep River in the Northern Cape. Do you have only this photo?


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