Like the Walking Stick insects they resemble, Stick Grasshoppers in the family Proscopiidae are long and slender and easily blend in with twigs on a tree or shrub. Most Proscopiids are brown, and have the eyes placed high up on the head, near the modest antennae.

Unlike the typical grasshoppers, they can neither fly nor leap, and rely on camouflage for their protection.

Female Stick Grasshoppers are considerably larger than the males, and have sometimes been mistaken for a different species.

This interesting family is strictly Neotropical, and in fact is found only in South America and a small adjacent area of Panama.