Andean Insect: Walkingstick Perhaps

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March 23rd, 2010 at 11:48 pm

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Andean insect with funny tail
March 23, 2010
Found this guy In the Ecuadorian Andes mountains around 12 or 13,000 feet. He seemed to be looking down into a hole in the moss and moved very little. No other bugs present that I could see. Saw one other walking but didn’t take a picture. It seems that the tail lays flat when they walk.
Samuel
Cajas National Park, Cuenca, Ecuador

andean insect samuel 300x214 Andean Insect: Walkingstick Perhaps

Possibly Walkingstick

Hi Samuel,
We wish you had a photo from the front as well as the rear. We don’t know for certain, but we believe this may be a Rove Beetle. We hope to get some confirmation.

Update: January 4, 2011
An identification request that just arrived leads us to believe that this is more likely a Phasmid or Walkingstick than a Rove Beetle.

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From Walkingstick from Ecuador | What's That Bug? on 04 Jan 2011 at 9:29 pm ¶
[...] across your website. It seems that someone hiking there sent in a picture of a similar creature. http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2010/03/23/andean-insect-rove-beetle-perhaps/ I was wondering if based on my pictures you could give any more information about what I found. [...]