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Crested Stick Insect

Pylaemenes borneensis

Photo by ChunXingWong
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Description:

Pylaemenes borneensis - a small black-colored stick insect which appears to be wet and dirty. The whole body is black in color except for the orange eyes and white-tipped antennae. It is 48mm in length. This is a male. Follow the link to see the female spotting - http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/148436026

Habitat:

Spotted this on a plant leaf along a forest trail in Tawau Hills Park, Tawau, Sabah.

Notes:

>>>Map accuracy: 100m diameter. Spotted this with Dan during our night walk in one of the forest trails. This was spotted just beside my previous spotting. Dan's spotting of it http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/233006041

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Then you are going to love Dan's spotting of it too.

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