"Twig-with-leaf"-like insect in central Mexico **What's that?!** I have googled around and found insects that looks like a twig, and others that look like a leaf, but this one looks deceptively like a leaf at the end of a twig (I swear it's a real living thing despite the appearances: it has legs and moves around!). As you can see from my hand on the photo it is also fairly big (well, at least for my European standards...). * **Location:** Morelia, Mexico (about 2000m high, in the tropics) * **Time:** October (humid season), in the morning ![top view with scale]( ![side view](

That is a Mexican/Texas unicorn mantis, which is of the species _Phyllovates chlorophaea_.

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