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Proscopia Apioscelis bulbosa
1 1/2" long bug
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Thanks Lauren! Unfortunately it did jump - just as I tried for a better shot!
So amazing. Those expanded hind trochanters must be for jumping! I would love to see this jump! ;)
Thank you Livan - very interesting!
I don't think it's a mantid, and though they look like stick insects (Order Phasmida) I think this is a kind of "jumping stick" grasshopper (family Proscopidae of the Order Orthoptera) perhaps Apioscelis bulbosa http://us.fotolia.com/id/23333064here are other sites about this:http://entomolog.tumblr.com/post/7269784...http://animalworld.tumblr.com/page/13
I'm thinking it may be some kind of mantid as it has a similar stance but when I asked our guide what it was he said "bug"! I ended up teaching him some of the family names!
What is this related to. It looks like an unusual stick bug. WOW
Spotted on Dec 5, 2012 Submitted on Dec 8, 2012
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Thanks Lauren! Unfortunately it did jump - just as I tried for a better shot!
So amazing. Those expanded hind trochanters must be for jumping! I would love to see this jump! ;)
Thank you Livan - very interesting!
I don't think it's a mantid, and though they look like stick insects (Order Phasmida) I think this is a kind of "jumping stick" grasshopper (family Proscopidae of the Order Orthoptera) perhaps Apioscelis bulbosa
http://us.fotolia.com/id/23333064
here are other sites about this:
http://entomolog.tumblr.com/post/7269784...
http://animalworld.tumblr.com/page/13
I'm thinking it may be some kind of mantid as it has a similar stance but when I asked our guide what it was he said "bug"! I ended up teaching him some of the family names!
What is this related to. It looks like an unusual stick bug. WOW