Africa Wild

beautiful

we call them "phasme"... if it's can help

that's the order of all stick insects

Toko wrote: that's the order of all stick insects

Genus: Bactrododema Stål, 1858
= Palophus Westwood, 1859: 90
= Ischnopoda Grandidier, 1869: 176 (Homonym of Ischnopoda Stephens, 1835)



Maransis brownii is endemic to the Northern Cape, but doesn't really look like mine.

Do you have a photo of B. reyi? I'm getting confused by the length of the antennae on the pics I find, as "mine" has rather short ones

Only pics from google found

The antennae are short in yours, that's right

Try this site

http://www.phasmatodea.com

http://images.google.com/images?q=Bactr ... eyi&sout=1

I think I was looking at the outstretched fore legs
Okay, shall we go with B. reyi

If you are convinced, go for it

Toko wrote:

ExFmem wrote:

BluTuna wrote:Hi everyone

Here are some more grasshopper/crickets to be ID'd for the insect book. All taken in my garden in Randburg.

4. Two of the same insect, note the extremely long antennae.

This is a baby (nymph?) katydid. Can anyone take it further?

Conocephalus caudalis

females are wingless

Better idea : Subfamily Phaneropterinae , Phaneroptera nymph

Ph. nana for comparison looks like this http://www.flickriver.com/photos/fturmo ... 058041252/

and here:
http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http ... CFsQrQMwAQ

I'd suggest we make it a Phaneropterini nymph, and a possibly Phaneroptera

Objections?