Leaf insect

 

"Serangga daun" is common name in Indonesia language for this exotics leaf insects or phasmids. They have various shapes mimicking the leaf and many different colors, like green, yellow and red. The host plant where they live is "pohon jambu" or guava plant and they eat the leaf. There many species of this kind of leaf insect, such as: phyllium giganteum, phyllium pulchrifolium, phyllium celebicum, etc.

Dynastidae from Indonesia  

Lucanidae from Indonesia  

Chalcosoma caucasus, Chalcosoma atlas, Oryctes  from Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Papua   

Allotopus rosenbergi, Dorcus titanus, prosopocoilus  from Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Papua  

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