Its length with elongated extremities is of the order of 62.4 cm in length.
Incredible in scale exotic insect was found in the mountains of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region in southwest China.
According to local media, the detected value representative of the family plotnikovyh with outstretched limbs is about 62,4 cm in length.
Previously announced, the record was considered to be the stick insect is Phobaeticus chani, which was seen in the jungles of Malaysia in 2008. The length of such a instance reached 56,7 see At the moment he is at the natural history Museum in the British capital.
His Chinese “brother” managed to find entomologist Zhao Li. As he told a researcher, he conducted search operations in the mountains, the height of which amounted to 1.2 thousand meters, near the city of Liuzhou. At one point his attention was attracted by something similar to a tree branch. Specialist could not believe my eyes when I realized that this was a huge insect.
This instance was defined to the new type, which was named in honor of Zhao — Zhao Phryganistria chinensis. Representative plotnikovyh delivered to conduct research on it in the Museum of rare insects of China (Chengdu city, southwest China). It is worth noting the insect had postponed six eggs.
The stick insects managed to successfully disguise themselves, finding the kind of environment in which they are located. They can easily be confused with a branch or leaf of the tree. Worldwide the number of species of these insects is about 3 thousand.
