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Necroscia punctata
Female Phasmid of the species, Necroscia punctata. Mostly yellow/green in colour with white wing membrane. She flew away from where I first spotted her and when she landed on another leaf, she kept her wings opened for a few minutes, possibly as a defense posture.
Tropical forest
Spotted on Jul 5, 2015
Submitted on Aug 1, 2015
4 Comments
Thanks, @Daniele :)
Congratulations Albert! This spotting is featured in today's Fact of the Day: " The Phasmatodea (sometimes called Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects, whose members are variously known as stick insects (in Europe and Australasia), walking sticks or stick-bugs (in the United States and Canada), phasmids, ghost insects and leaf insects (generally the family Phylliidae). The ordinal name is derived from the Ancient Greek φάσμα phasma, meaning an apparition or phantom, and refers to the resemblance of many species to sticks or leaves. Their natural camouflage can make them extremely difficult to spot. Phasmatodea can be found all over the world in warmer zones, especially the tropics and subtropics. ~Wikipedia"
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Thanks, @DrNamgyalT.Sherpa.
Not all of them do but more likely those species with false/pseudo wings are more likely to make the defensive postures with their wings.
Didn't know they posses wings too! Beautiful!