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Suspected Parahyrtacus
Gorkomi
| Size male: |
6.5 to 7cm without legs |
| Size female: |
8.5 to 9 cm without legs |
| Size eggs: |
2 mm |
| Origin : |
Mindoro Island, Philippines |
| Food plants: |
Guava, Syzygium, Mango,... |
| Time Incubation: |
3 to 4 months |
| Time nymphs: |
2 months male, 3 months female
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| Time adult: |
4 to 5 months |
| Comments |
The female lays
about 4 to 8 eggs at a time.
But not every day.
They like to stick their eggs into styrofoam at the bottom of
the cage.
They average about one egg
a day
One sees them rarely mating.
They are very sensitive to
heat
and lack of food and die easily
The female secrete some kind
of Nylon like
string. (see picture below)
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A female nymph
A female nymph
female
female
male
male
eggs
The nylon kind of stuff which the female secrete
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