Any ideas what this insect is?

Hilltop



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Message Posted:
27/05/2010 13:04

What this is?



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Body about 3 inches long

Hilltop



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Message Posted:
27/05/2010 13:08

New link



http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gxkpgI0

AlsancakJack



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Message Posted:
27/05/2010 13:09

Hilltop the link(s) does not work.

AlsancakJack



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Message Posted:
27/05/2010 13:11

Second link ok, looks a bit like a praying mantis to me.

kathsj


Joined: 25/06/2009
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Message Posted:
27/05/2010 13:13

Stickinsect?

essexgirl


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Message Posted:
27/05/2010 13:14

Looks like a cross between a stick insect and a grasshopper !!! LOL

scubaboy


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Message Posted:
27/05/2010 13:15

i think its some type of stick insect , not a mantis ?

Kambylikid


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Message Posted:
27/05/2010 14:01

It's a stick insect.

Family Nepidae.

Groucho



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Message Posted:
27/05/2010 14:05

Do stick insects have wings? I thought not... only this one appears to have wings...



Could it be a species of grasshopper?



We get them like this and they jump... again I don't think stick insects jump.

Groucho



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Message Posted:
27/05/2010 14:07

http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/foltz/eny3005/lab1/hemiptera/Nepid.htm



This is a water scorpion... looks like it, Maureen seems to have the right Latin name.

Hilltop



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Message Posted:
27/05/2010 15:17

I thought so too Gavin, but further research makes me think it may be this.....

http://invertdiary.ebaker.me.uk/2008/10/grasshopper-from-cypruss.html

Groucho



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Message Posted:
27/05/2010 15:25

Yeah sorry, I think my two posts are a bit muddled,



I think Maureen has identified a Water Scorpion (she got the right name for that) I don't think it's a stick insect.



But I do think this is a grasshopper as we see them and they do fly and jump (Acridinae)

givecoffeenow


Joined: 27/05/2010
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Message Posted:
27/05/2010 16:20

Ah yes, the albeit close to extinct Greenatius Netasourus Digestorinaus. Very rare, this insect. Found exclusively in the Amazon river Basin with only one other exception....the developed northern side of the Five Finger Mountain Range in North Cyprus.



Upon wikipedia research this small but resourceful bug has been studied for years and marveled at as its only true source of food is green fishing nets.



Hilltop, you might consider calling the Turkish Entomology Center and see if they'd like a live sample. You never know, could be big money it it for you.

swannee7


Joined: 21/08/2009
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Message Posted:
27/05/2010 16:22

Deffo a 'Cyprus grasshopper'. Used to see loads of them in the 'old days'. Also in days of yore in Cyprus, we occasionally got swarms of locusts.

Hilltop



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Message Posted:
27/05/2010 16:26

Message 13, don't give up the day job, and you got the wrong side of the mountains!

givecoffeenow


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Message Posted:
27/05/2010 20:39

You mean you found him on the South side?! That's incredible! Never before has there been a confirmed circumstance of a GND (as they're affectionately known to those of us that specialize in this kind of thing) actually climbing past the 237 meter altitude marker. Even in extended elevation tests they're rarely gotten beyond 200 meters.



I'd say you indeed have a strong candidate for the Entomology Center.

Clarissa2


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Message Posted:
28/05/2010 03:40

Re : Msg 1,



Dear Hilltop,



I took a picture of this beauty at Hilltop last summer.

You must be attracting them!



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Clarissa2


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Message Posted:
28/05/2010 03:51

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