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ExFmem wrote: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

Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis was first described by Carl Fredrik Fallén (1764–1830), a Swedish botanist and entomologist, in 1817 during his tenure at Lund University between 1814–1827. Fallén first named this species Musca haemorrhoidalis in 1817 not knowing that Charles Joseph de Villers[5] had already named an unrelated species Musca haemorrhoidalis in 1789. In 1826, Johann Wilhelm Meigen, a German entomologist famous for his pioneering work on Diptera, described the same species that Fallén had described in 1817 as Sarcophaga cruentata following Meigen's description of the genus Sarcophaga. Since two different species can not share the same name,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcophaga_haemorrhoidalis

here a good description of S. haemorrhoidalis
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/mis ... sh_fly.htm

But there are more than 40 species
http://www.ru.ac.za/static/departments/ ... gidae.html

Expert required

nan wrote:Scorpion
Kruger, Satara - 19.3.2011

Tree Creeping Scorpion Opisthacanthus asper
Family: Liochelidae

Description
This species has a totally dark morph and a morph with lighter legs.

Distribution
Botswana, South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe.

Habitat
Inhabits cracks in trees, under loose bark. Often found in Mopane and Knobthorn trees.

Vers shy, rarely stings in defense.

I will post in the good thread

ExFmem wrote:??? Drone fly Eristalinus or Eristalis ?
I have NO idea.


Kruger

This requires research

Have not seen a Eristalinus with eye stripes not vertical

nan wrote:Scorpion
Kgalagadi - Twee Rivieren - 16.1.2012



but which one

A Parabuthus

If you can make a close-up we can see if it is hairy and then get the Id on species level - but be careful with getting close, this is a highly dangerous species

hairy... will try

it seems not

Granulated Thick-tailed Scorpion Parabuthus granulatus