Insect or Invertebrates Identification - DONE

[steamtrainfan]

[ExFmem]

Toko
I put my weird bug write up in the "book", so it can be moved from here and indexed please.

[Toko]

One of your coolest insects ever

[steamtrainfan]

Is this what is known as the Toktokkie?
It would run along and then stop and tap its rear end on the ground and then move and repeat the process.

[nan]

wow, shining like a brand new piece of money


"brillant comme un sous neuf"

[Toko]

White-legged Toktokkie Dichtha incantatoris


Where have you found this cutie?

[steamtrainfan]

wow, shining like a brand new piece of money

HI nan, he sure was very clean.

White-legged Toktokkie Dichtha incantatoris Where have you found this cutie?

Thanks very much Toko.

We found walking around outside our unit in Bakgatla camp in Pilanesberg.

[steamtrainfan]

Joan found this one in our garden.

I would estimate its size to be 2-3cm.

After the photo session it flew off.



Is it a juvenile stick insect?

[nan]

special one
nice one and photo too

[Toko]

A member of the Fulgoridae family (Lantern Bugs, Snout Bugs; Planthoppers), in the genus Zanna. Some of the larger members of this family are spectacularly colorful and have the front of the head elongated into a hollow, horn-like projection often with extensions. In others, like the twig snout bug, Zanna, this extension, combined with the cylindrical shape of the folded wings, results in good camouflage by resembling the stub of a broken twig. They are mostly grey with black speckling.

Nice one,