Stheneboea repudiosa "Tapah Hills"

(by Bruno Kneubuehler)

General Notes

• synonyms: Prisomera repudiosa (Brock, 1995)
• several new culture stocks have been imported over the years
• 2008 - new stock culture distributed to other breeders

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Origin

• Tapah Hills (Malaysia)

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Females

• quite spiny
• about 7 – 7,5 cm long
• the spines on the thorax are covered with fine hairs
• colouration is brown with some dark, almost black spots
• feelers are almost as long as the forelegs

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Males

• quite spiny too
• lenghs is about 6 – 6,3 cm
• colouration is dark brown on the upper body side, lighter brown on the sides and reddish brown spots at the leg joints
• feelers are somewhat longer than the forelegs

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Eggs

• the irrgularely shaped eggs are flat, dimensions about 5 x 2 mm
• colour is a light greyish-brown
• incubate them at room temperatures (18 – 25 °C) on a damp, not too wet substrate. Incubation time is about 4 – 5 months

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Food Plants

• nymphs as well as adults feed easily on bramble, nymphs grow up without problems on this plant. But they will prefer fern from the forests - if available

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Breeding Notes

• easy to breed
• keep the nymphs as well as the adults in a airy, yet humid cage
• nymphs grow up quite slowly. Males reach maturity in about 7 months, while females take about 8 months (at room temperatures). As it
• is a slow growing and slow moving species, they do not eat a lot
• females start about 4 – 5 weeks after their final moult to lay eggs. They lay about 1 egg per day and just drop them to the ground
• mating lasts only for some hours, the males do not stay with a female for a long time