Real Giant Ox Armoured Cricket - Damalacantha vacca specimen encased in clear lucite material. The specimen is crystal clear, indestructible and transparent. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put real specimen right at your fingertips!

You can explore the specimen from every angle.

Clear enough for microscope observation.

Length of the cricket from head top to bottom tip is 7 cm(2.8 inch).

Size of the lucite block is 11x4.3x3 cm(4.3x1.7x1.2 inch).

Each one comes with a cardboard box for easy storage.

Weight of the block is 150 g and 180 g with packing box.

It is an ideal learning aid for students and kids and also a very good collectible item for every body.

This is a handmade real animal specimen craft. Each one will be a bit different (specimen size, color and posture) even in the same production batch.
The picture in my listing is just for reference as we are selling multiple pieces with the same picture.

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Giant Ox Armoured Cricket - Damalacantha vacca

Order: Orthoptera   Suborder: Ensifera    Infraorder: Tettigoniidea    Superfamily: Tettigonioidea

Family: Tettigoniidae     Subfamily: Bradyporinae     Tribe: Zichyini      Genus: Damalacantha

Distribution: Northwestern region of China

It is a large master quite lazy Katydid. Male body length of 35mm, female 38mm, huge body , ferocious temperament ; forewings and hind wings degradation, both sexes wing with the sound . Adults appear in summer haunt steppe or desert basin rocks , weeds , and the cracks are important pests desert steppe . " Thermal regulation evaporation " their unique ability to help the body to conserve energy in changing desert environment . Distributed in Xinjiang , the former Soviet Union and Mongolia .
Male body length of 35mm, female 38mm, huge body . Head is usually under -mouth ; antennae are usually less in length , was born in the complex now under the edge level. Pronotum nearly square ; near the trailing edge paired with black nodules, Prosternum with or missing spines. Forewings and hind wings degradation, both sexes wing with the sound . Hind tibia with at the back . Females lay eggs sword-like petals . Body color is usually brown or yellow-gray , with a brown back , black spots. Six stubby limbs , most notably the thighs, more than other katydid short and not good at jumping.
Adults appear in the summer , may have been extended to August-September , life 2-3 months ( not egg ) . They often come in the basin desert hills or rocks , weeds , and the cracks . Ferocious , usually open jaw demonstrations
 Whether male or female , will be hard to tweet when demonstrators frightened . Cow-shaped pretty lazy grasshopper has a "hot regulating moisture evaporation (Water evaporation for thermal regulation)" capability. Thermoregulatory behavior is complicated by the reaction at different temperatures caused by habits and behaviors : regulation of the rate of solar heating and cooling air flow velocity of the body ; they have a unique thermoregulation gesture, that the use of dorsal appendages before (Frontback) on a umbrellas to protect most of the body where the sun . In hot weather , due to the evaporation of water from the body in the body , they can make the body temperature for a long period of time less than the surrounding air, the average daily temperature is about 37 ℃. In the arid desert , they are succulent succulents for food , so that part of the water to cool the body. Cow-shaped pretty lazy grasshopper thermoregulation at high temperatures are arthropods adapt to the hot desert conditions specific performance - to optimize the use of water temperature through active living body .

Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called katydids or bush crickets. There are more than 6,400 species. They are also known as long-horned grasshoppers, although they are more closely related to crickets and weta than to any type of grasshopper. The name is derived from the genus Tettigonia, first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1748. Part of the suborder Ensifera, it is the only family in the superfamily Tettigonioidea. Many tettigoniids exhibit mimicry and camouflage, commonly with shapes and colors similar to leaves.