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rare
Brazilian Treehopper
Bocydium globulare
- Habitat
- Brazilian Atlantic rainforest
- Body length
- 5 mm
- Order
- Hemiptera · Membracidae
Weird but real
Wears a helicopter-rotor crown of black hairy spheres on its head. Scientists still aren't sure what they're for.
Why it's cool
Looks like an alien drone got stuck on a beetle. Evolution occasionally produces something so weird it shouldn't be allowed to exist, and then it does, on a leaf in Brazil.
