Black Beauty (Peruphasma schultei) - a photo on Flickriver

            The strikingly beautiful, Black Beauty (Peruphasma schultei) stick insect survives in the wild within an area of less than 5 hectares, among the treacherous Cordillera del Condor mountain range of northern Peru.
   

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Bournemouth (show map)

Taken on: November 26, 2015

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