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Oreophoetes topoense
Peruvian Fern Stick Insect (Oreophoetes sp.), might be Oreophoetes topoense (confirmed by Bruno Kneubühler), Farnheuschrecke, Farn-Stabschrecke, Rainforest of the Amazon River, CeibaTops, Loreto, Amazonia, Peru.
Neotropical rainforest in Amazonia
Phasmatodea, Verophasmatodea, Anareolatae, Diapheromeridae, Diapheromerinae, Oreophoetini, Oreophoetes topoense.
Spotted on Apr 30, 2007
Submitted on Apr 30, 2012
75 Comments (1–25)
Thanks, folks!
How did I miss this one. Fantastic bayucca.
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wow, amazing! :)
Congrats! And thanks for all you do to help us keep our Amazon postings accurate and correctly ID'd
Congrats!
... What an amazing biodiversity has Perú!
Great capture!
Congrats Dominik!
Thanks folks!!
Congratulations on your stick :-))
Awesome! Congrats bayucca!
Congratulations, Dominik! This is very very beautiful!
Congratulations, Dominik!
very Sweet!
Amazing photo congratulations
Congratulations :)
Thanks Karen!! Cool start for 2013! Thanks Gerardo, Pamela and Cindy!
Amazing insect! Congratulations Dominik!
congrats bayucca...
Congratulations Dominik :):)
Congratulations Dominik! This great capture has been chosen as a runner up in the Best of 2012, arthropods category.
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Spectacular.
Thanks, folks!
Amazing!
Superb spotting Bayucca!
Indeed and this might be a very effective technique to confuse the birds: Just let them pick an "unimportant" (at least for survival) peace of the body to distract and/or gain some time to run/fly away. Really effective as you can see in this spot:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/818...
If you look very carefully you see a complete symmetry: right side are the real eyes and antennae and on the left side the mimic eyes and antennae.
But that's not enough! Hairstreaks usually move the tails as they are imitating the moving of the head and antennae!!