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Description
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Horned Glowhopper
(Lumolocusta ceratus)

Habitat: Rainforest

Length: 4cm

Weight: 100g

Food: Plants

Breeding: Unknown

Lifespan: Unknown

Status: Common

Glowhoppers are a group of orthopteran that have evolved a symbiotic relationship with bioluminescent bacteria, meaning that they glow at night. The exact reasons for this are unknown, but it is believed to be because the calls of the 'hoppers' would be drowned out by everything else, so they have evolved a way of dealing with this and still getting noticed.

Pharoah Priest fly
(Seranggaimam egyptimimus)

Habitat: Rainforest

Length: 7mm

Weight: Unknown

Food: Fruit, fungi, smaller invertebrates

Breeding: Eggs layed in dead wood

Lifespan: 4 months

Status: Common

The Pharoah Priest fly is a common, yet bizarre insect native to Skull Island. It belongs to the subsection Acalyptratae and shows some similarities to stalk-eyed flies. Whilst the females have short conventional looking antennas, the male ones have enormously long, antler-like ones, which make it hard for them to fly. The antennas are crossed at some point and hold in position by hooks, so that they aren’t in the way the whole time. Unlike their relative, Seranggaimam corona, this species antennae resemble a pharaohs crown, hence it's name. The male flies compare their antenna lengths for competition and try to attract females with their colorful antenna tips. The eyes are enormous, so that they spot predators soon enough, which is important, since the male flies aren’t that good in flying.*

Dwarf Kitebeetle
(Triangocoleoptera minimus)

Habitat: Rainforest floor

Length: 8mm

Weight: Unknown

Food: Fungi, plants

Breeding: Eggs layed in dead wood

Lifespan: Unknown

Status: Common

Kitebeetles are so named due to the shape of their abdomens. They are small omnivores found across Skull Island.

Tool-box ant
(Ferramentamymerca multus)

Habitat: Grassland

Length: 8mm

Weight: Unknown

Food: Insects, fungi, plants, fruit

Breeding: Eggs layed by queen in ant nest

Lifespan: Unknown

Status: Common

Tool-box ants are a species of ant native to the grasslands that get their name from the multiple 'tools' on their limbs. The front pair are for digging and have enlarged claws, the second pair are for shovelling material and for dragging food and the last pair are for brushing dirt out of the tunnels as they dig. These unique appendages allow them to build huge, complex nests underground.

*The description came from the original Priest Fly: skullislandreborn.deviantart.c…

Description
Clockwise from top left:

Horned Glowhopper
(Lumolocusta ceratus)

Habitat: Rainforest

Length: 4cm

Weight: 100g

Food: Plants

Breeding: Unknown

Lifespan: Unknown

Status: Common

Glowhoppers are a group of orthopteran that have evolved a symbiotic relationship with bioluminescent bacteria, meaning that they glow at night. The exact reasons for this are unknown, but it is believed to be because the calls of the 'hoppers' would be drowned out by everything else, so they have evolved a way of dealing with this and still getting noticed.

Pharoah Priest fly
(Seranggaimam egyptimimus)

Habitat: Rainforest

Length: 7mm

Weight: Unknown

Food: Fruit, fungi, smaller invertebrates

Breeding: Eggs layed in dead wood

Lifespan: 4 months

Status: Common

The Pharoah Priest fly is a common, yet bizarre insect native to Skull Island. It belongs to the subsection Acalyptratae and shows some similarities to stalk-eyed flies. Whilst the females have short conventional looking antennas, the male ones have enormously long, antler-like ones, which make it hard for them to fly. The antennas are crossed at some point and hold in position by hooks, so that they aren’t in the way the whole time. Unlike their relative, Seranggaimam corona, this species antennae resemble a pharaohs crown, hence it's name. The male flies compare their antenna lengths for competition and try to attract females with their colorful antenna tips. The eyes are enormous, so that they spot predators soon enough, which is important, since the male flies aren’t that good in flying.*

Dwarf Kitebeetle
(Triangocoleoptera minimus)

Habitat: Rainforest floor

Length: 8mm

Weight: Unknown

Food: Fungi, plants

Breeding: Eggs layed in dead wood

Lifespan: Unknown

Status: Common

Kitebeetles are so named due to the shape of their abdomens. They are small omnivores found across Skull Island.

Tool-box ant
(Ferramentamymerca multus)

Habitat: Grassland

Length: 8mm

Weight: Unknown

Food: Insects, fungi, plants, fruit

Breeding: Eggs layed by queen in ant nest

Lifespan: Unknown

Status: Common

Tool-box ants are a species of ant native to the grasslands that get their name from the multiple 'tools' on their limbs. The front pair are for digging and have enlarged claws, the second pair are for shovelling material and for dragging food and the last pair are for brushing dirt out of the tunnels as they dig. These unique appendages allow them to build huge, complex nests underground.

*The description came from the original Priest Fly: skullislandreborn.deviantart.c…