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Posts Tagged "Mimetica mortuifolia"

Costa Rican Leaf Katydid (Mimetica mortuifolia)

Posted on Nov 29, 2014

Costa Rican Leaf Katydid (Mimetica mortuifolia)

This Costa Rican Leaf Katydid (Mimetica mortuifolia) by RTPI Affiliate Sean Graesser for the Meet Your Neighbours global diversity project certainly lives up to its name. Sean says that he has found a few individuals of this species and they all look different. He liked this one in particular with it mimicking the signs of decay on a live leaf.

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