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About one cm in size, mantis looking alert little creature. I like the three spots on top of the back, they look like tiny eyes...
Acasia woodland, next to a waterhole on an Acacia tree. Dry season
Photo taken at Hlane Royal National Park, Swaziland
Spotted on Aug 3, 2013
Submitted on Aug 7, 2013
12 Comments
ODONTOGONUS? No, that would be really to much ;-)...
About different leagues... There are many things I have no IDeas about, then only my eyes may help and in this case, I am not much of a help...
I found one that was named by one of your collegues. Genus: ODONTOGONUS! :D
I think it is a wheel bug nymph, the same as the first picture you linked. But I am still on it.
Hmm, you mean I should my coffees from 12 to 10 cups per day? OK, I will think about that and I am longing for your ID...
Ha! How very considerate! Just the fact that you are mentioning such thing as trembling hand, and you make your living out of holding a drill 6 cm from ppls brains make me want to drink fluoride instead of coffee!
We do play in different leagues regarding identification of creatures :) And I think I should remind you that to be able to tell what I dont have on the pictures are also good knowledge :) And after my research so far, many of the assassin bugs in the reduviidae family can now be excluded... FTW! :)
If we won't here anything from you the next few days, I will sent the medical anti-coffee-trembling-unit to rescue you..
I am not giving up! My hope are the antennas! They cant be that different from a nymph to an adult? I am trusting my luck here! I think I might need one more coffee ;)
He, he... Best you go back to this tree and look out for some adults... I think there is no chance to get an ID from this link, it was just thought for your archive... Unfortunately nymphs are a nightmare and almost impossible to ID for sure and there are no pictures on this links...
Oh man! It is a lot of bugs in that link :) Thank you for keeping me occupied... I think I need a cup of coffee before I start...
THAT list rocks!! Good luck... ;-)
http://www.ru.ac.za/static/departments/z...
And for the rocker to become, Mr bayucca... Interesting, many similarities with this one and your link. I have to investigate a bit more :)
I think my beetle is a little more slender in body Wilson, and perhaps the antennas look a bit different as well :) But it could have been, they are quite similar :) Thank you.
Looks for me more like a Reduviidae, Assassin Bug Nymph.
The link is for an US species:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-b3ZC2CyeAo/TC...