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Does not look like this to me

http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http ... JcBEK0DMBQ


similar to this one (but the Id there might be wrong )



from Pretoria, an Allodapula (there are several species in the genus, perhaps with different distribution)
http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http ... JcBEK0DMBQ

While looking up A. variegata info., I found the following info. regarding the bubble shown in BluTuna's photos in his entry in the book, that maybe you can add to his entry?

As seen in BluTuna's photos, the bee has a water droplet at its mouth, which is referred to as "bubbling", or "tongue-lashing". The purpose of this is for water homeostasis or regulation. Manipulation of nectar or water on the tongue is extensively used by a variety of bees to increase evaporation for either nectar concentrating or cooling purposes.

After drinking the dilute nectar of Aloe arborescens, female allodapine bees, Allodapula variegata and Braunsapis sp., concentrate it on the tongue by repeated regurgitation, evaporation and re-ingestion presumably before mixing it with pollen and feeding it to their larvae. Oral evaporation of excess water compensates for less than ideal nectar concentrations.


http://jeb.biologists.org/content/212/3/429.full

I just found the most SPECTACULAR website for jumping spiders of South Africa

http://www.jumpingspiders.co.za/gallery.html

Can we add this to our WWW list for spider IDs?

Toko wrote:

BluTuna wrote:Sunday morning, another exquisite autumn day.

A new Beetle.

This is also a hairy darkling beetle (Lagria)

Also, from most of the pics I see on Google Images for Lagria vulnerata, BluTuna's, above, looks more like it than mine Maybe post his as the species itself and keep mine as "possibly"?

http://www.google.com/search?site=imghp ... ch&imgdii=_

ExFmem, have added the infos

For the Lagria, I don't know if any of them is Lagria vulnerata, would not claim anything here

There is on ispot a comment that the entire genus and tribe is mess in terms of classification

We post BT's as a Lagria sp, I'd say and you can remove the "possibly" for yours if you think? Or you leave it

I paged through but could not find this one.

Taken at the Nursery near Skukuza in April.

Amoli

Clouded Mother-of-Pearl Protogoniomorpha anacardii nebulosa




Are you going to do an entry to the butterfly book, Amoli or should I do for you?

Super so glad I could contribute.

Would you do the entry Toko - and thanks a lot.

Toko wrote:http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http ... JcBEK0DMBQ


similar to this one (but the Id there might be wrong )



from Pretoria, an Allodapula (there are several species in the genus, perhaps with different distribution)
http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http ... JcBEK0DMBQ

Had another look, it's Allodapula !!!, perhaps not variegata, but good enough for Allodapula sp.

One of these
http://www.waspweb.org/Apoidea/Apidae/X ... /index.htm