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Conservation Biologists. My interests are vertebrate physiology and evolution, aviafauna, theropods, invertebrate conservation and ecology.
Perth, Western Australia
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It is a stink bug. There are several thousand species though, so it may take some effort to ID unless it's a common variety.
Great to see this got spotting of the day. :)
No problem! The information about it is fairly sparse in the major online catalogs. It's a good chance to upload your pictures to the databases.
On a technical note: The species names don't receive a capital letter by convention. So "Phiale Formosa" should be "Phiale formosa".
I'm new to US grasshoppers. Insects are always hard because the numbers of species in each genus is usually quite high. This looks like a female of the above species because of the coloring.
Jumping Spider Mimic
Genus: Phiale although not sure of the species. Looks very similar to Phiale formosa female.
You need to find some male birds Rachael. :)
I was thinking some kind of whistler too.
What an unusual one. The round cephalothorax and reduced abdomen almost make it look like an ophiuroid.
They can be difficult! There's significant dimorphism that lets them look like other species. Keep at it.
Thanks, I'm not familiar with Argiope outside of Australia.
