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Phymateus viridipes
A stocky large and colourful African locust of the Pyrgomorphidae. This is a nymph with it wings still underdeveloped and locked in the thoracic case. with in a day we found the this outer armour shed and the locust most likely flew away. these insects eat poisons plants that the manifest as a toxic spray from their joints when disturbed.
Arid and semi arid grass and farm land
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