This sighting dates back to 2007-ish. One fine morning, this shows up in a rocky patch behind the kitchen in the village home. It took a while to figure out what it exactly was - about 7 years. It took that long because of a giant feature on this giant leaf bug which is unlike any - the pronotum (which resemble horns on this one). Even though its id sheet mentions "humeral angles of pronotum broadly expanded", this one had outrageously expanded pronotum compared to what an image search returned.
While earlier identified as Acanthocephala Declivis, the id seems misleading, as it featured no thorny head (that Acanthocephala means). It is safe to say it is one of the family Coreidae (Leaf-footed bugs).
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