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Calvisia flavopennis
This is a very colourful Phasmid - Calvisia flavopennis, not a big species, just around 6cm. This species was newly described in May this year, 2016. The species name flavopennis refers to Yellow Wings (flavo = yellow and pennis = wings, in Latin) but the picture shows more of orange/brown wings, this could be variation. This is a female, with 2 red bands on her prothorax. Her abdomen is red/pink in colour and she has blue legs.
Tropical forest
New Organism to Project Noah
Spotted on Sep 3, 2016
Submitted on Sep 8, 2016
2 Comments
Thanks, @Felix, glad you can appreciates this one :)
Its a rare find indeed :D
Wow, what a beauty! Great spotting.