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Sweet Potato Bug

Physomerus grossipes

Description:

About 3.5 cm. in length and 0.5-0.75 cm wide. It was jumping/hopping around to many different leaves, and has two brown antennas.

Habitat:

Tropical Rainforest (Singapore American School Rainforest)

Notes:

Seen at 10:50 in the morning, after raining.

1 Species ID Suggestions

Rufous-legged Grasshopper
Xenocatantops humilis (Serville, 1838) Xenocatantops humilis - Wikipedia


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4 Comments

Võ Anh Tuấn
Võ Anh Tuấn 2 years ago

"Physomerus grossipes" is the species of the order Hemiptera, while the photo in the your post is a grasshopper of the order Orthoptera.

kfox
kfox 11 years ago

I love this description. I appreciate that you include weather information. I hope you get a suggestion!

Singapore American School
Spotted by a stud ent at Singapore American School

Singapore, Singapore

Spotted on Feb 27, 2013
Submitted on Feb 27, 2013

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