Hello everyone, good afternoon......
As usual, I will invite you all to take a walk in the wild to enjoy beautiful insects that have escaped attention. Well, today I managed to find a tessaratoma papillosa insect that was stopping by among the dense leaves of a bush. At first I didn't know that among the leaves there was a beautiful creature hiding. He suddenly made a loud sound. I immediately looked for the source of the sound, it turned out he was hiding there and monitoring me.
The tessaratoma papillosa insect is one of the insects that has a large body that I have ever encountered, about the size of an adult's thumb. And the insect comes from the tessaratomidae family. For its color, this insect has a color that is easy to camouflage. Its back is yellowish brown and in the middle there is a black dot. While the other parts of its body are black, white and brown. The legs and antennae are black, while its eyes are shiny brown.
Behind the beauty that it has, there is one thing that is not liked. Namely, it likes to emit an unpleasant odor. The smell is very strange, if we do not immediately leave when the insect emits its smell. We will experience dizziness and sometimes nausea. But don't worry, if he does not feel threatened then he will not emit the smell either. His weapon is very powerful. Just by emitting a foul odor, the predator immediately leaves.
Latin name | Tessaratoma papillosa |
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Observation date | 8 Mar, 2025 |
Camera used | realme 7 Pro |
Photographers | @reachdreams |
Location | Aceh, Indonesia |
Link to original community |
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https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/264463652
Latitude | Longitude | Map |
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4.695135 | 96.7493993 | https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=4.695135&mlon=96.7493993 |