
Stick Insect, Phasmid - Calvisia (Nigracalvisia) flavopennis
This is a very colourful Phasmid - Calvisia flavopennis, not a big species, just around 6cm.
This species was newly described in May this year, 2016.
The species name flavopennis refers to Yellow Wings (flavo = yellow and pennis = wings, in Latin) but the picture shows her wings of more brown/orange. So, this could be a variation in the colours of the wings.
This is a female, with 2 red bands on her prothorax. Her abdomen is red/pink in colour and she has blue legs.
Similar species: Stick And Leaf Insects
By Albert Kang
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Uploaded Sep 8, 2016. Captured Sep 3, 2016 21:15 in Jalan Coastal Bintulu - Miri, Similajau, Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia.
comments (4)
Do you have a reference link for the identification? eol.org does not know it. Posted 8 years ago
You can look up the info at this website :
http://phasmida.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1228383 Posted 8 years ago, modified 8 years ago