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Photos of arthropods in Madagascar [updated 2013-02-13]



Calendars


Chameleons of Madagascar - 12-month calendar



Herps of Madagascar - 12-month calendar



Lemurs of Madagascar - 12-month calendar



Madagascar - 18-month calendar



Madagascar Calendar - 12-month calendar



Madagascar Calendar II - 12 months by mongabay



Wildlife of Madagascar - 12-month calendar


Budget Calendars




Swallowtail butterfly



Mantid Purple Antenna



Red and black bugs



Yellow and orange beetle (Coptemia celata)



Blue, yellow, black, and red caterpillar



Red millipede



Caterpillar



Polybothris jewel beetle



Thorn spider (Acrosomoides acrosomoides) (Masoala NP)



Beige Ground Mantis (Tarachodes sp)



Madagascar moth with an orange marking on its back



Spider eating a red leafhopper



Pink and purple Homopteran, probably a Flatid or a Fulgorid bug, with huge eyes; this is a nymph that has JUST molted



Rainbow locust



Red Bug (immature nymph, which lacks full wings)



Red millipede in Madagascar



Pink and orange spider



Katydid



Green pill millipede rolled in palm of hand



Dung beetle in Madagascar



Red millipede compared with size of hand



Katydid



Mating butterflies



Yellow and pink caterpillar



Giant orb spider in Madagascar



Walking stick insect



Brown Praying Mantis (Phyllocrania paradoxa)



Insect



Mossy stick insect



Yellow scorpion (Manambolo)



Katydid



Green beetle with an orange head



Yellow-speckled Cleonine weevil (genus Lixus - Curculionidae family)



Yellow and pink caterpillar



Stick insect



Stick insect



Black moth with orange and green spots



Thorn spider (gasteracanthinae sub-family, probably Madacantha nossibeana) (Masoala NP)



Crematogaster ant trail going up the trunk of a canopy tree



Baby yellow and black grasshoppers



Orb spider



Orange-eyed grasshopper



aquatic insect in hand (Nepidae, probably nepa) (Kirindy)



Mating orange, red, and black bugs



Butterfly (Aterica rabena)



Camouflaged caterpillar



Pink and orange mite resembling a spider spider



Colorful wing of the Malagasy sunset moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus)



Phromnia rosea (fuschia colored insects) (Isalo)



Katydid



Mating beetles



Madagascar spider



Orb spider



Comet moth with damaged wings



Mossy stick insects



Brilliant green beetle [Tortoise beetle of the Chrysomelidae family]



Blue planthopper



Orange and blue planthopper



Malagasy flatid bug (Phromnia rosea) in its nymph stage



Grasshopper



Polybothris Jewel beetle (family Buprestidae)



Caterpillar with blue and black spines



Green praying mantis



Stick insect



Worm in a protective case



Swallowtail butterfly



Mantis



Raspberry dragonfly



Juvenile Malagasy Emerald Green Pill Millipede (Sphaerotheriida)



Mantid



Katydid



Dragonfly tsingy canyon (Tsingy de Bemaraha)




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