Album 2007 Panama from Tony James

100 Homeward Bound

nobody@ipernity.com (Tony James) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:48:35 +0000

End of our stay finally reached, so off to the Panama City airport for our return flights.

98 Pseudophasma bicolor Males

nobody@ipernity.com (Tony James) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:48:34 +0000

Phasmatodea Body Length: ~50mm

This cryptic species had orange wings used for flash colouration when disturbed (see pictures in the 2015 Panama Wildlife album). These were found on low growing plants along the road from the trail towards Gamboa Town.

97 Pseudophasma bicolor F

nobody@ipernity.com (Tony James) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:48:33 +0000

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Phasmatodea Body Length: ~75mm

This cryptic species had orange wings used for flash colouration when disturbed (see pictures in the 2015 Panama Wildlife album). These were found on low growing plants along the road from the trail towards Gamboa Town.

96 Phanocles sp (?) M

nobody@ipernity.com (Tony James) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:48:33 +0000

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Phasmatodea Body Length: ~150mm

The much thinner males were present also, but it wasn't until we had a good look at a couple of them in the keep net to realise they had very small, non-functioning wings about 25mm long.

95 Phanocles sp (?) F

nobody@ipernity.com (Tony James) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:48:32 +0000

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Phasmatodea Body Length: ~220mm

Two females were brought to our room and were in a keep net for the rest of our stay. to collect eggs from them.

94 Phanocles sp (?) F

nobody@ipernity.com (Tony James) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:48:31 +0000

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Phasmatodea Body Length: ~220mm

An adult female of this species is quite big and individuals of this species were found along the side of this trail.

93 Snail-eating Snake (?)

nobody@ipernity.com (Tony James) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:48:31 +0000

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When walking at night it is always possible that you might come across hunting snakes. This very thin individual, although not to easy to view, is probably one of the small Snail-eating Snakes.

92 Young Iguana

nobody@ipernity.com (Tony James) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:48:30 +0000

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A night walk along this trail, revealed a young Iguana on a bush spray. An interesting observation was that the Iguana had its eyes closed, but a mark on the eyelids simulated an open eye. A strange adaptation, with no obvious reason.

91 Lagoon Trail Entrance

nobody@ipernity.com (Tony James) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:48:29 +0000

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The Lagoon Trail entrance was a fairly wide flat area surrounded by forest. This view is looking left from the sign in the previous picture back towards the hotel car park entrance up the hill. the bush on the "corner" was home to some rather large Phasmids, shown in pictures 94-96.

90 Lagoon Trail

nobody@ipernity.com (Tony James) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:48:28 +0000

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Close to the hotel in the other direction we found another trail into the forest from the main road through the hotel grounds towards Gamboa town which looked promising, so night visits were decided. This is a view from the road.

83 Pterinoxylus sp

nobody@ipernity.com (Tony James) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:48:28 +0000

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Phasmatodea Body Length: ~130mm

A new Phasmid for us! Although a last instar female nymph, it appears to be similar to an existing culture species from Guadeloupe, so my identification is provisionally the same Genus. Unfortunately, further night visits to the Service Road did not result in any other insects from this species, so there was no real chance of initiating a culture.

82 Metriophasma diocles M

nobody@ipernity.com (Tony James) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:48:27 +0000

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Phasmatodea Body Length: ~75mm

A common species which may be widespread in Panama. This is one of a number of Males seen during this night walk.

81 Red-Eyed Tree Frog (Agalychnis camdryas)

nobody@ipernity.com (Tony James) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:48:26 +0000

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Whilst searching the low bushes at the side of the Service Road for insects one night walk, we came across this little individual casually watching us from his stem.

80 Tower Service Road

nobody@ipernity.com (Tony James) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:48:25 +0000

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Just down the exhibition road from the back of the hotel there was a small branch service road to the hilltop tower. It was usually a closed road with a drop barrier across it out of hours, but it was an ideal safe night walk route up into the rain-forest with low growth and trees all the way up the sides to explore. This is an aerial view from one of the aerial tram gondolas as we went up to the tower in daytime.

74 Leaf Cricket

nobody@ipernity.com (Tony James) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:37:46 +0000

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This quite interestingly shaped cricket appeared on the handrail of the walk way near one of the lights.

73 Cane Toad (Rhinella marina)

nobody@ipernity.com (Tony James) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:37:45 +0000

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Also known as the Marine Toad as it seems at home in the sea as well. A more normal, but often giant sized, ground-based Toad found on the hotel bottom floor walk way.

72 Trachycephalus venulosus

nobody@ipernity.com (Tony James) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:37:44 +0000

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A much larger Tree Frog which occasionally appeared on the walk ways during the evenings.

71 Dendropsophus microcephalus

nobody@ipernity.com (Tony James) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:37:44 +0000

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This small Tree Frog was quite common on the walls and ceilings around the lights in the evenings.

70 Assassin Bug 2

nobody@ipernity.com (Tony James) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:37:43 +0000

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Reduviidae

Another species found around the lights.

69 Assassin Bug 1

nobody@ipernity.com (Tony James) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:37:43 +0000

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Reduviidae

One of the Assassin bugs found loitering around the lights.