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​Insect Icons

Documenting the invertebrate icons and telling their great stories

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Photographers, Naturalists! We need your photos, your stories

IPSIO members are writing an invertebrate icons of Madagascar field guide to be published in Vahatra's field guide series.  We are asking visitors to Madagascar to help capture images of insects and other invertebrates that tell their story.  These stories will also be used for the basis of  promoting insect in tourism, creating Madagascar National Park posters and calendars, insect focused t-shirts, and developing children's books.  Contributors to the Icon's Book will be credited. Send your photos and questions to the email link below.  

We need photos of the following

Full list of species here.
Reunion Rhinoceros Beetle
tree tiger beetle (trunkrunners?)
Giraffe Weevil
weevil
longhorn
fruit chafer
Madagascar Frog beetle
Urania beetle
Jacaranda rain bug
pink flatids
naucorid
Malagasy Lantern Bug
Madagascar Giant Glasswing
Madagascar Bullseye
Comet Moth
Madagascar Forest Nymph
Lamba Moth
Madagascar Forest Queen
Sunset Moth
Gilded Tomb moth
Madagascar Giant Casebearer
Malagasy Rocket moth
Réunion Crow Butterfly
Comoro Swordtail
Fern moth
Harpoon moth
Attenuate Ringlet
False Dotted Border
Malagasy Paradox
Madagascar Diadem
Madagascar Sapphire / Brilliant Blue
Malagasy Castanet moth
Madagascar Birdwing / Giant / Emperor Swallowtail
Madagascar Beauty
Ward's Novelty
Suffert's Hook-Tip
Wallace's Hawkmoth
Whalley's Enigma
caddisfly
​Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
termite
praying mantis
Madagascar crayfish
freshwater crab
tsingy crab
screwpalm crab
Coconut Crab
Attenborough's Pintail
Madagascar Emperor
Prettywing
Selys's Glyphtail
Seychelles Stream Damsel
Silver Widow
Wandering Glider
Madagascar Demoiselle
Madagascar Cruiser
featherlegs
Madagascar Flutterer
Madagascar Jungleskimmer
Greenbolt
Madagascar fishfly
malaria mosquito
trident flower fly
queen's locust
monsters
Malagasy Wetas
giant ant lion
mantis lacewings
bat-winged/whirligig mayfly
giant mayfly
Infernal Fire Millipede
Spotted Blood Millipede
Singing Giant Pill Millipede
Emerald Giant Pill Millipede
African Giant Snail
Nudist Snail
Banana Slug
Snail hoisting spider
scorpion fly
Darwin’s Bark Spider
pelican spider
Golden-orb Spider
net-throwing spider
tarantala
giant stick insect
giant pompiliid wasp (like Pepsis)
big green wasp
giant sphecid
Malagasy stingless bee
edible wasp
terrestrial leech
giant earth worm
giant flatworm
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IPSIO is supported by CEPF,  a joint initiative of l'Agence Française de Développement, Conservation International, the European Union, the Global Environment Facility, the Government of Japan, the MacArthur Foundation and the World Bank.
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