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Necroscia pallida
Necroscia pallida - a small green stick insect (Phasmida) with a body length of about 35 mm / 3.5 cm. It seems to own a pair of wings that is neatly folded on it's abdomen. It did not displayed it's wings though. It's fully grown wings indicate that it isn't young anymore.
Plants of Kinabalu National Park, Kundasang, Sabah, Malaysia.
>>>Map accuracy : 300m diameter. Another species of walking stick that I spotted in Kinabalu park. This species is a new spotting for me. Special thanks to Albert Kang for identifying this.
Thanks for the helpful information, next time I will try taking photographs of it's abdomen.
Which part of the abdomen shows the gender differences?
The front, the tip or the whole?
There is a stick insect I spotted nearby with a swollen abdomen tip, is this what you meant by "bump" ? http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/775...
A photo of the abdomen will be useful for gender determination. Males have a bump pointing downwards, containing a spermatophore. Males also have typically larger wings and longer antennae but not always. Based on these observations and its narrow abdomen, I would say male. Most of our smaller species are in the genera Sipyloidea and Candovia and they occur in Asia too. You will have other possibilities.
Spotted on Dec 16, 2009
Submitted on Nov 27, 2011
