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The family Phylliidae (often misspelled Phyllidae) contains the extant true leaf insects or walking leaves, which include some of the most remarkably camouflaged leaf mimics (mimesis) in the entire animal kingdom. They occur from South Asia through Southeast Asia to Australia. Earlier sources treat Phylliidae as a much larger taxon, containing ...
Typical Plangia species are moderate-sized katydids, fairly effective green leaf mimics, that lay their fairly large, flattened oval eggs under bark, or in individual incisions in the edges of leaves of their food plants. They make the incisions into the leaf parenchyma, between, and parallel to, the dorsal and ventral leaf epidermis.
Phylliidae are leaf insects, members of the insect order Phasmatodea which resemble leaves. Other members resemble sticks or twigs and are called stick insects.
Cassidinae larvae may be leaf miners (many of the former Hispinae), stem borers (e.g. Estigmena) and external leaf feeders (e.g. Leptispa, Oediopalpa). [9] Chrysomelinae generally feed on leaves as adults and larvae, though some species feed on flowers instead. [10] Criocerinae larvae are usually leaf miners or feed externally on leaves. [9]
An adult Silverleaf Whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) on surface of Cotton leaf Bemisia tabaci adult whiteflies on green leaf. The first instar, commonly called a crawler, is the only mobile nymphal stage. The first instar nymph can grow to about 0.3 millimetres (1 ⁄ 64 in) and is greenish in color and flat in body structure.
Pulchriphyllium bioculatum, [2] [1] Gray's leaf insect, [2] is a leaf insect of the family Phylliidae native to tropical Asia as well as Madagascar, Mauritius and the Seychelles. [2] It was first described by George Robert Gray in 1832 and was the first phasmid he discovered. [3] Leaf insects have extremely flattened, irregularly shaped bodies ...
They can be generally referred to as phasmatodeans, phasmids, or ghost insects, with phasmids in the family Phylliidae called leaf insects, leaf-bugs, walking leaves, or bug leaves. The group's name is derived from the Ancient Greek φάσμα phasma , meaning an apparition or phantom , referring to their resemblance to vegetation while in fact ...
Green mirid (Creontiades dilutus) damages many types of field crops. Potato capsid (Closterotomus norwegicus) is a noted pest of potato and clover plants in New Zealand. Deraeocoris nebulosus prefers other insects to plants in its diet, and has been used as a biocontrol agent against mites and scale insects. [citation needed]