【Giant ♂】 Lobster Grasshopper Muscular Grasshopper Tree Cricket Liococercus Specimen

Scientific Name: Colossopus sp.

Common Name: Macho Grasshopper / Lobster Grasshopper
Chinese Name: 巨像螽

This is a nocturnal bush cricket endemic to southwestern Madagascar.
It was briefly a trending topic on Twitter.
It belongs to a genus with only three species.
We highly recommend it for its incredibly cool, muscular, and buff forelegs!

The light brown, cigar-shaped eggs are laid one by one in the soil. Although only 6mm when laid, they grow significantly over 3 months to a year. Females lay 150 to 200 eggs in their lifetime. Adult females and males have similar body colors, but the upper lip is reddish-orange in females and yellowish-orange in males. When encountering a foreign object, adults stand on their hind legs, spread their forelegs, and open their mandibles in a defensive posture. When adopting this posture, adult males emit a high-pitched chirp, while adult females do not. If a foreign object approaches, C. grandidieri will grasp it with its forelegs and attempt to bite with its mandibles.

Please note that we cannot guarantee against downgrades due to shipping.
We will ship an individual, likely a male, from Morondava, Madagascar. It was last molted in September 2025. It is about two sizes larger than the females. My measurement of its body length was 64mm.