New Hybrid Hisser Project: Principoda planatigris

I have successfully recreated Kyle Kandilian's old accidental cross between Aeluropoda insignis and Princisia vanwaerebeki "Tiger", which I am officially naming Principoda planatigris, strain name "Paper Tiger". I will probably line breed these for a generation or two for the most prominent striping and flattest body morphology possible, and then call it good, from what I've seen when Kyle made this cross, there was no need for backcrossing IMO.

To clarify, this was a cross between a male A.insignis, and female P.vanwaerebeki "Tiger". I may try the reverse cross in the future, but for now I'm just happy this cross worked! I did use multiple Tiger females to ensure that at least one of them would get gravid, that's the thing with making hybrids, some species are less willing to mate with other species than others.

Some pictures of a couple of the adults used to create the cross:

And now, pictures of the resulting nymphs!

L1 nymph

L2 nymph

First instars look a lot more like Aeluropoda than anything, with lots of speckling and a lighter color tone to their body, second instars look more like Princisia.

I'm looking forward to watching this project develop, and will keep y'all posted on these!

Anyways, that does it for this post, thanks for reading, hope everyone enjoyed, and I'll see you all next time! 😉