Hawk Moth

The closest I could get was family: Sphingidae. These are two different individuals, and don't know if they are the same sp. The larva is voracious, and they can destroy a pot plant overnight single-handed.
We call them Hawk Moths, the Americans Sphingids.
 

Notarcha quaternalis

It's not often I can name a moth, but this one came into our house one evening and was characteristic enough to be identified. It is found in central Africa, and in the NE of the RSA. Wingspan is about 2 cm. Its common name is the Fourth Pearl, pearl being applied to the most members of the subfamily Spilomelinae. Fourth refers to the specific name, but I don't know why Zeller 1852 named it thus.
 

Cyana pretoriae

 

The Pretoria Red Line, this handsome moth is found in Central and Southern Africa. The diet is lichen. The family Arctiidae, it has similarly striped legs to its close relative the Tri-coloured Tiger.
The specific name for the city.
The genealogy of the name is as follows:
Both Cyana and Bizone Walker 1854
Bizone pretoriae Distant, 1897
Now Cyana pretoria (Distant 1897)

Cacyreus lingeus

This Bush-bronze butterfly was found frequently, possibly because of one of its food-plants, Plectranthus sp. is commonly grown here. The other Cacyreus is the Common Geranium Bronze, which although the underside has a resemblance to this sp., the upper side is a rich chocolate brown
 

Cacyreus marshalli

Again there was some uncertainty as to whether this is is the Common or the Water geranium Bronze, (C. marshalli or C. tespis which is now C. fracta. Apart from observation of the genitalia, the only feature would be how much coppery violet there is on the upper side.
See previous post on this blog.
 

Teracolus eris

The Banded Gold Tip. Having been better known as Colotis eris, now reassigned back to T. eris (Butler 1897), who used sub-genus Teracolus (Swainson 1833). A pierid, it was first described Pieris eris Klug, 1829;
The female (bottom) lacks the violet and gold of the male.
Eris was the goddess of strife.
I had posted more of this butterfly on Butterfly party.

Cupidopsis cissus

The Common Meadow Blue. This was found at Cumberland. It is a female, the male has more blue on the upper side. I had  done a previous post on this butterfly which has the male. Compare it with its cousin C. jobates.