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Stick Insect - Phasmid
This is a nymph of Phasmid from the species Phobaeticus kirbyi. This one are probably 4th-instar around 15 cm, the adults can grow up to 30 cm in body length and 50 cm including the legs.
This was an interesting find, to me at least as when I first took the pics of the green form (previous post) around 9 pm and then on my way back, I passed by the same tree an hour later and saw it again, but this time, it is in brown/greyish colour. I kept looking around the area to see if I can find the green one but to no avail. So, am wondering, if the green one that I saw first managed to change its colour to grey/brown within an hour?
''Phobaeticus kirbyi'' is a very long stick insect native to Borneo. The holotype deposited at the Natural History Museum in London measures 328 mm excluding legs and 546 mm including legs. This makes it the second-longest known insect in terms of body length, behind ''Phobaeticus chani'' with 357 mm . Both ''P. chani'' and ''Phobaeticus serratipes'' exceed it in total length with legs extended. However, recent specimens of ''P. kirbyi'' have only reached 283 mm in body length.
