Large Pink-winged Phasma, Podacanthus typhon

Plate 80. Large Pink-winged Phasma, Podacanthus typhon (now known as Podacanthus typhon) found in Richmond Paddock

This most beautiful Phasma is readily distinguished from the other two large species found near Melbourne, the Tropidoderus rhodomus and T. iodomus, figured in our Plates 69-70, by the beautiful rosy-pink colour of the membrane of the lower wings, with the bright rosy-carmine veins, and the same colour occupying as much of the basal portion of the costal area as can be covered over by the tegmina when at rest.

I have not seen the males as yet, nor can I account for their apparent rarity.

Specimens are in the collection from the Richmond Paddock and other localities near Melbourne.