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Bush katydid (Poecilopsyra octoseriata)

Photo by Kurt (Orionmystery) G

Plain Mimicking Snout-Nose Katydid.

Pseudorhynchus selonis

28/05/22

One night in Nicaragua I was trying to get some sleep at one of the research stations we were stopped at, but something in the room was making a real big ruckus and keeping me up. Eventually, I heard it get close to my head so I went and grabbed for it only to feel something bite down HARD on my finger. I made a number of embarrassing noises of surprise and distress and flapped my hand around like an idiot but the thing stays clamped. I fumbled for my headlamp with my other hand and reveal this fucking asshole just going to town on my fingermeat. I ended up having to stick it and my bleeding finger in a 50ml tube of alcohol until it died.

Anyway, that’s why the common name for Lirometopum coronatum is the pitbull katydid

#bflyphotos #dead animal #the alcohol leached away its natural pigment #which is too bad cause it was even cooler looking when it was bright green #orthoptera #tettigonioidea #nicaragua