Insect or Invertebrates Identification - DONE

[ExFmem]

Beetlemania


KTP

[Toko]

Beetlemania


KTP

Looks very similar to Frantic tortoise beetle, Zophosis testudinaria but there are many look alikes in the genus, so perhaps only a Zophosis sp.

I love beetles

[Toko]

Beetlemania


Imfolozi

Tenebrionidae. Lagriinae. Lagriini, I think
Similar to Lagria vulnerata, do we search into this genus or tribe

[Toko]

Which dung beetle?


KTP

Does this one match?

http://www.invasive.org/browse/subinfo.cfm?sub=11090

Don't think

but the Subfamily: Dynastinae (rhinoceros beetles) is right!

[Toko]

Beetlemania




KTP

Subfamily: Melolonthinae

50 genera in SA

[Toko]

Some kind of bug I've not seen before.

No.2 might be a stilt bug/thread bug in the family Berytidae.

http://www.google.com/search?site=imghp ... FdGqdOlmNE

So .... I think we can make it a Metacanthus sp.

http://130.235.11.35/search.php?taxa=Be ... h%20Africa

And looking at photos I would match

https://www.google.de/search?q=metacant ... 66&bih=643

[Toko]

Winter has arrived in Johannesburg, a bit earlier than usual. The low temperatures seem to be keeping the bugs away and the past long weekend's sightings were very sparse.

This appears to be a Dragonfly I've not seen in my garden before, unless it's a morph of the Red Veined Dropwing.

This is an Orthetrum sp, either a teneral male or a female


Teneral male of Orthetrum chrysostigma would look like this

http://www.fotonatura.org/galerias/fotos/173865/

Orthetrum chrysostigma: Thorax greenish to yellowish brown with a distinctive light creamish stripe this one does not have a white stripe

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Orthetrum abbotti: here an immature female (looks pretty good to me)
http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http ... CGEQrQMwAw

Female:
face all greenish cream, unmarked except for two blackish markings on dorsal surface of frons adjacent to eyes.
Vertex dark brown with low peaks.
Thorax greenish cream, virtually unmarked except for darkening of sutures. Dorsal surface of thorax covered with minute, blackish spines, giving a fine, spotted appearance. Wings slightly smoky, with darker smoky patches reaching arculus. Costa yellow.
Abdomen light yellowish brown, with dark brown lateral markings starting on S4, becoming wider, joining on S8. S9 all dark brown. S10 yellowish posteriorly, with two,
fine black dots. A fine blackish line runs mid-dorsally from S3-8, with paired dark markings at end of each S3-7.

More photos here
http://www.warwicktarboton.co.za/dfpgs/104abbotti.html


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Orthetrum icteromelas

is too yellow, not greenish and is also more slender

http://www.warwicktarboton.co.za/dfpgs/ ... melas.html

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It is NOT Orthetrum hintzi
Top of abdomen continuously yellowish and no black mid-dorsally

[Lisbeth]

What about this one:Jaunty Dropwing
Trithemis stictica



http://www.greglasley.net/nonBirds/jauntydrop.html Too much blue

[Lisbeth]

This one fits with colors....I think. Don't laugh I am just trying to be helpful

http://www.greglasley.net/nonBirds/yellowjack.html

[Toko]

Pterostigmas (the spots in the wings) are in dark brown between black margins in Trithemis stictica and our beauty has them yellow between black margins, that's why I am pretty sure that it is Orthetrum


Look at the thin black line in ours on the abdomen, there are no blotches, only a dorsal line