The spiny-crested katydid below may be a new species or it “may be a Diacanthodis formidabilis, but the only known specimen of that species was lost after it was documented in 1838 in Brazil.”

This walking-leaf katydid appears to be different from “previously known walking-leaf katydid.”

Via National Geographic and Conservation International. More about the expedition to Nangaritza, Ecuador can be found here.

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