Pictures: Tube-Nosed Bat, More Rare Species Found

Pictures: RARE SPECIES, UNNAMED SPECIES OF KATYDID GLIMMERS DARK EMERALD

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Rare Jewel

Photograph courtesy Piotr Naskrecki, Conservation International

Found in the Muller Range in September 2009, a new, unnamed species of katydid glimmers dark emerald—a color Naskrecki, director of Conservation International's Invertebrate RAP, had never before seen in katydids.

Katydids, which are related to crickets and grasshoppers, play an important role in the rain forest's food chain, providing protein to monkeys, bats, birds, rodents, and even other insects.

The Muller Range expedition spent a week at each of three camps, each at a different elevation. Around each camp, the scientists found entirely new animals.