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Stick Grasshopper

Photo by LuisStevens
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Field Notes

Description:

Stick Grasshopper with a cone shaped head. It has a red mite on it. 10 cm long (four inches). Family Proscopiidae

Habitat:

Dry landscape at 3,300 masl.

Reference Links:

Proscopia cf. scabra, Stick Grasshoppers in the subfamily Proscopiinae

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Comments (3)
LuisStevens
Thanks to my friend Darren McNabb I know now it is a Stick Grasshopper not a Walking Stick.

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