Kingdom: Animalia, Phylum: Arthropoda, Class: Insecta, Order: Hemiptera, Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha, Infraorder: Fulgoromorpha, Superfamily: Fulgoroidea, Family: Dictyopharidae.
The Biologist Dr. Priyantha Wijesinghe whom I consulted for this had crosschecked its identification with an expert on a related family, and fowarded me his reply. It said, "...I reach the same conclusion as you: probably close to Centromeria viridistigma (or maybe it is that species) but as I am not a Dictyo specialist, I really cannot tell you more..."
15 comments:
Wow Amila,
The colours on that are just so bright and vivid. Amazing.
Thanks RD,
It was a pretty gaudy critter. I didn't use photoshop for any colour editing.
wow beautiful picture...i dream to go back to sinharaja...how did you book that?
Hi Poojitha,
I booked it myself! I am a tour organiser/tour leader.
Faaar out Amila - positively psychedelic!
Thank you, Mr. Jones!
Amazing as usual, Amila!
Hi Sean,
Thanks a lot! Great to hear from you.
Are you sure you didnt Photoshop that just to fool us? :D
I cant imagine such a psychedlic-looking creature. It looks as if it was painted when Mother Nature was tripping!
Simply awesome coloring this tiny creature exhibits...you've captured it's true colors perfectly, Amila! I wish we had such colorful creatures in my area.
Hi Sunitha,
No photoshopping was done except painting the eye colour and the area surrounding it....just kidding!
I only cropped it and included my credits. Glad you liked it.
Hi Kim,
Some of these tiny rain forest critters make excellen macro subjects. I am happy you liked it.
WOW Amila! Amazing as always.
Hi Chandanie,
Thanks a lot! I am pleased to hear those comments.
Amilia: I do love the flouresent colors on that tiny hopper.
Hi Fishing Guy,
Yes those colours were quite amazing to see when I first found it. I am glad they were captured well in the pic.
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