>>34186383Honestly, the coolest thing about tardigrades is the fact that, compared to insects and myriapods, they're just tiny, elongated "heads" with no bodies. Their legs are actually the equivalent of mouthparts in most arthropods.
Anyway, here's a bunch of bugs I'd like to see in Pokemon, complete with a poorly cropped collage:
- Bug/Fairy katydid siren, modeled after these katydids in Australia that learned to click like female cicadas to lure and eat courting males. Continues Pokemon's recent trend of making easily sexualizable bug-types like Ribombee, Pheromosa and Scolipede.
- Bug/Dark rove beetle line with Disguise, based on Coatonachthodes beetles that live in termite nests and have abdomens resembling their hosts. Naturally, the Pokemon equivalent lives in Vespiquen and Beedrill nests and has a tail that resembles Combee or Weedle.
- Bug/Fire Melanophila beetle that lays its eggs into open fires instead of recently burned wood, acting as the Pokemon equivalent to medieval salamanders.
- Bug/Electric mountain midge that hunts by running a current through water with its long electric antennae, with a sucker-footed Bug/Water pre-evolution based on both mountain midges and the closely related net-winged midges.
- Bug/Dragon membracid with no embellishment whatsoever, just slightly stylize one of these things and put it into Pokemon and nobody will be able to say a word about how it isn't a majestic dragon.
