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Necroscia annulipes
Necroscia annulipes, Females are around 9 cm in length with long blue antennae, bright yellow-green color with blue markings on her forewings and black/brown line along the body. Males are around 6 cm in length. Legs are segmented in yellow-green and blue color. They have full wings that is bright pink in color, clearly visible when they fly.
Tropical forest
First time for me to go spotting back in my hometown, Penang, Malaysia and was surprise to find this beauty :) Pic#1 - Male with his red wings visible Pic#2 & #3 - Female New Organism to Project Noah
Spotted on Oct 6, 2014
Submitted on Oct 6, 2014
5 Comments
Thanks too, @hardy.
Glad you love this one :)
great find Albert
love this :)
thanks for the share
I went back to the same trail again and saw the Male of the same specie.
He was flying around and when he settled on the plant, one of his wing was still exposed, hence I was able to take a picture showing his Red colored wings.
Thanks, @Luis :)
Great find Albert!