Known as the Jungle Nymph, this is one of the most popular species in the hobby.  Females are very large, weighing more than any other phasmid. With it's striking green color of the adult female that make this one of the most amazing species. Females can range from green to yellow, and males are reddish to brown as nymphs, and then brown at maturity.  Very aggressive and will use their spiked legs as weapons in a scissor-like motion.  Their wings are very small.  Males are also winged and capable of flight, the inner wings being reddish. 
Their diet consists of bayberry, bramble, gauve, hawthorn and ivy.

Heteropteryx dilatata

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