Saturday, July 4, 2009

ORTHOMERIA SP (Pandora?)

Here yet another fantastic species I found a few weeks ago in Real / Quezon province, East-Luzon. Small species, male 40/50mm - female 70/80mm, male is a very good flyer and can fly for quite a long distance ! The "thing" with that species is its extreme attitude > highly nervous, almost epilleptic, drops on the floor and run/thumbles franticly !!!! It takes some habitude to be able to handle them without having a nervous breakdown :)) Pictures 2 and 3 are the nymphs stages of the male, quite extraordinary how each stage looks sooo different for the previous one, isn't it ? According to Bruno (kneubuhler) that had a one time breeding try of that genus, they accepted Pyracantha as foodplant in Europe.




















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