hook-faced conehead
Pyrgocorypha uncinata


Photograph of brown male in a grass clump, Alachua County, FL, by T.J. Walker, University of Florida.

By caging individuals in outdoor cages with transplanted clumps of living and dead grass, J. J. Whitesell discovered that they spent the daylight hours concealed as illustrated above. [In this photograph, the male is headdown with only his left forewing and left hind and middle legs visible.]