Beautiful and uncommon species, very interesting because the male and eggs style look very much like a Periphetes and the female much like an Eucarcharus
.........Males are nicely colored with a bright orange body and green abdomen while legs are of a dark blue/green color very striking. High altitude species I found at about 750 to 950masl + raining season which means cool temperatures at arround 20C at night and very often raining / foggy conditions. Here in Manila the species accepted to feed on Rose only (just like Periphetes quezonicus) and is doing well. Most probably the genus Lonchodes isn't the right one for that species and further studies will surely prove it thus a genus change will very certainly occur in the near future.
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