Monday, October 26, 2009

UPDATE # 5

And here are the pictures of the Adult male of Ctenomorphodes tessulata, missing in my previous post.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Other Non-Filipino species I breed / have breed #12

EXTATOSOMA TIARATUM SP?
Origin > Queensland - Australia
Here's a very nice and interesting species......starts with the eggs that are only half size of the "usual" ETs we all know, then the females colorations are very variable indeed : as pictured it goes from brown to orange and then green!!! I started culture with guava (Psidium gujava) till L4 then changed foodplant to Muntingia....from that moment on started to appear a few specimens turning green color :) I should have probably started with muntingia even a moult earlier and I'm convinced that some specimens would turn in very deep green color > next generation for sure ! Sexual breeding. (Thanks Alex)







Other Non-Filipino species I breed / have breed #11

CTENOMORPHODES TESSULATA
Origin > Queensland - Australia
Nice medium sized phasmid, pretty common, variable in colorations. Nice orange mini wings however. Have only females in culture as of today and a single male which is a subadult now (see future UPDATE for pics). Species is parthenogenetic anyway. I feed them problemless on guava (Psidium gujava). (Thanks Alex)



Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Other Non-Filipino species I breed / have breed #10

ACROPHYLLA TITAN
Origin > Queensland - Australia
Sumptuous and very large species, the largest I have breed so far. Both sexes have large wings, black and white with a nice purple base, the male flies nicely, strongly.
Here they accepted Guava (Psidium gujava) as replacement foodplant easily. That species require a very large cage, at least 80cm in height, as the final moult of the female is a tricky one, she needs that depth to fully hang her huge front legs and develop correctly her large wings. (thanks Alex)




Other Non-Filipino species I breed / have breed # 9

MEGACRANIA TSUDAI
Origin > Taiwan


My second Pandanus eater and Megacrania after sp. Phelaus ! Parthenogenetic culture......so all females.....less colorful species than Phelaus but has its charm too. Tought that Phelaus was eating many Pandanus but compared to this one > no match !!! They eat each and every variety of Pandanus I have been given to them, tried about 5 kinds and all were eaten ! (thanks Ken)

UPDATE # 4

1) Here is a "foodplants" update to consider :

> Orthomeria sp. pandora beside, Firethorn/Pyracantha (cf. Bruno Kneubuhler), also accept Willowherb as foodplant (cf. Rob Krijns / Netherlands - Thank you)

> Tisamenus sp Clotho? is NOT accepting Bramble as foodplant as other Tisamenus do, but feed on Firethorn (Pyracantha) and Hypericum (cf. Bruno Kneubuhler / Switzerland - Thank you)

> Scionecra sp. "QNP" will very probably feed on Cherry Laurel as do its close relative from "Negros" (cf. Bruno Kneubuhler / Switzerland - Thank you)