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Heavy Stick Insect
Haaniella echinata
4.4008, 117.887
Field Notes
Description:
A large nocturnal Phasmid insect resting on a leaf. Despite being 58mm long, this one is still a nymph. It needs to undergo few more instars to reach adulthood. It is brown in color to mimic twigs, wood and other dry vegetation debris. Other than being armed with spikes, it will also lift up it's rear and hind legs to display it's hidden bright cyan (or turquoise blue) mark as a warning sign to predators.
Habitat:
The nymphs are found on leaves of low growing plants on the forest floor in Tawau Hills Park, Tawau, Sabah.
Notes:
>>>Map accuracy: 200m diameter. Spotted this with Dan during a night walk in one of the forest trails. This is one of the many H.echinata nymphs we found and yet we found no winged adults (imago) tonight. This species is one of the several similar looking Haaniella species endemic to Borneo. Dan's spotting of this http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/233086015 Another instar http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/257816002
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