Extinct Invertebrate species in South Africa.

Beetles:

Table Mountain Hairy Crawling Waterbeetle - Algophilus lathridioides (? - Back Table) - unlikely to be extinct**

Table Mountain Water Scavenger Beetle - Allocotocerus mixtus (? - Back Table) - unlikely to be extinct**

Butterflies:

Bashee River Buff - Deloneura immaculata (1863 - EC)
Morants Blue - Lepidochrysops hypopolia (1879 - KZN, NW)
Dicksons Monkey Blue - Lepidochrysops methymna dicksonii (1964 - Tygerberg)

Velvetworms:

Lion Velvetworm - Peripatopsis leonine (? - Signal Hill)

(posted on iSpot: 28 July 2015 - 11:31PM)

Posted on 07 March, 2018 11:49 by tonyrebelo