Insect List

Insects recorded at ZANDVLEI ESTUARY NATURE RESERVE since 2001

Nathan Meyers is compiling the insect collection. He has to research each insect to verify it, against the known data records.This is done at the S A Museum. About 125 samples have been collected to date. Nathan now has an intergrated database (September 2001) which he is trying out and refining, this will be very useful for future publishing. It is planned to link the database to this web page at a later stage.
This list will be updated as the information becomes available.

Key to sightings

Common               C
Uncommon            UC
Very common        VC
Fairly common       FC
Rare Visitor           RV
Unknown               UK
Red Data Species RD

No.

Index
No.

Order

Genus & Species

Common Name

Key

1.	NM002	Lepidoptera	Dira clytus clytus	Autumn Widow (Butterfly)	FC
2.	NM003	Lepidoptera	Pseudonympha magus	Silver– bottom brown (Butterfly)	FC
3.	NM005	Odonata		Damsel fly	C
4.	NM007	Lepidoptera	Pieris brasssicae	Cabbage white (Butterfly)	C
5.	EK015	Blattodea		Cockroach	UC
6.	EK018	Orthoptera		Grasshopper	C
7.	NM019	Coleoptera	Scerabaeus sp.	Dung beetle	UK
8.	NM024	Diptera		Robberfly	UK
9.	NM025	Odonata	Anisoptera	King Dragonfly	C
10.	EK027	Orthoptera	Paracinema tricolor	Green Grasshopper	C
11.	EK034	Hemiptera	Goreidae, Coreinae	Twig wilter	C
12.	CD037	Hymenoptera	Apis monelifera	Honey bee	C
13.	CD041	Coleoptera	Neochetina bruchi	Weevil	UC
14.	NM044	Coloptera	Cuculoidea, Coccinellidae	Lady Bird	UK
15.	NM049	Lepidoptera	Metisella metis metis	Gold – spotted Slyph (Butterfly)	UK
16.	NM050	Coleoptera	Pachnoda sinuata	Fruit Chafer	UC
17.	NM054	Coleoptera	Lampyrud SP.	Glow worm	UK
18.	CD055	Coleoptera	Mylabris sp.	Blister beetle	UK
19.	CD075	Coleoptera	Cacasceles sp.	Longhorn beetle	UK
20.	NM085	Hymenoptera	Polistes marginalis	Social wasp	UK
21.	CD089	Hemiptera	Eumenes maxillosus	Spider wasp	UK
22.	NM099	Lepidoptera	Pelopides thrax inconspicua	White banded swift (Butterfly)	UK
23.	–	–	–	Meadow White (Butterfly)	FC
24.	–	–	–	Blue (Butterfly)	FC
25.	–	–	–	Small Blue (Butterfly)	FC
26.	–	–	–	Common-dotted Border (Butterfly)	FC
27.	–	–	Kedestes barberae	Barbers Ranger (Butterfly)	UK
28.	–	–	Kedestes lenis	Unique Ranger (Butterfly)	UK
29.	–	–	Apis monelifera	Honey Bee	CR
30.	–	–	–	Parasitic Bee	FC