Colours of Autumn Leaf

Lovely colour adaptation of this leaf insect, Pulchriphyllium bioculatum. Besides the most common colour of green, they can also takes on other colours of mix of green, yellow, orange and brown to adapt and camouflage among the leafs. On the rare occasion, some species had even take on the colours of red.

This species is one of the earliest Leaf Insect described by George Robert Gray in 1832 and is likely the most widespread species that can be found in most tropical parts of Asia as well as Madagascar, Mauritius and the Seychelles.