Invertebrates
MADAGASCAN Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forest

Kingdom Animalia

Class Arachnida

Class Insecta

Order Phasmatodea: 'Stick Insects'

Stick Insects mating.

Order Hemiptera: 'Bugs'

Family Flatidae

This is a large family that is found around most of the world. They are a type of 'planthopper' that sucks out the phloem from plants. The adults resemble a small tent, but the nymphs are distinctively different, with their tail of waxy filaments making them look like part of the plant. 

'Flatid Planthopper' adults.

Phromnia rosea, 'Flatid Leaf Insect' nymph.