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Stick Bug, Bicho Pau

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Field Notes

Description:

Proscopiidae family. Very nice and docile insect, about 13cm long.

Habitat:

Found on a small guava tree.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (3)
Carol Snow Milne
Great! It does look like a stick bug, but I have never seen one in person. In the grasshopper family. cool! Never would have guessed.
BrunoKneubühler
this is no stick insect, this is a long-headed grasshopper (order Orthoptera)

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Mimetic Animals of the World
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PublishedJuly 29, 2011

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