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Photo by Chris79
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Field Notes

Description:

Our guide at this point did tell us what this was but I don't remember the name - some kind of grasshopper maybe? It blended itself in to it's surrounding looking like moss.

Spotted in the Tirimbina Rainforest, near Sarapiqui, Costa Rica

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
Saturniidae27
Possibly some sort of Ancistrocercus. https://myrockytop.smugmug.com/Travel/Costa-Rica-2015/La-Selva-Biological-Station/i-ZZZ8tg2
Ornithoptera80
The closest match is some sort of katydid nymph, (Tettigoniidae).

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PublishedMay 18, 2020

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