Twi Seraph "Megawing"

diplo seraphim ( "Double Seraph" )

The largest Protypocene flying arthropod on Hoxia, 11 million years in

Physical Biometrics:

Wingspan: up to 7 ft/ ~2.13 meters

Length: ~ 18 inches / 45 cm 

(Excluding cerci )

Weight / Mass: ~ 270 grams

Distribution and Environment:

Primarily resides alongside Hoxia's beaches, particularly on cliffsides, sea stacks, tall trees, or any area of elevation near the sea.

Description:

These flying giants initially diverged from Blaberus Giganteus off a population that found itself simply avoiding its predators by escaping to the shorelines, before capitalizing off of flight ( which was now easier due to Hoxia's lower gravity ), in order to simply avoid the Coconut Crabs as well.  It spends much of its life in the air, away from most dangers on the ground.

Taking the role of the migratory sea bird ( There are no birds on Hoxia obviously ), it loosely uses thermal updrafts similarly to Albatrosses in order to achieve a variation of gliding called soaring. This way it seldom has to flap its enormous wings, and capitalizes off of this to travel vast distances across the ocean. 

It's opportunistic, and oftentimes can scavenge from plant material, fruit, as well as carcasses. Most of the time however, it resides in extremely elevated areas in high altitudes, away from the warzone that is the inland areas. They often congregate atop sea stacks for safety in numbers agaisnt any potential flying predators, as well as when mating is possibly taking place. 

It only ever gets close to inland territory to lay their egg pouch oothecas just past the shoreline. It is during this time they are under the risk of being caught and killed by the local Gargantocervas roaming the beach.

Evolution / Anatomy:

They eventually gained more and more exaggerated bodily features for flight as their lifestyle become more centered around aviation.

Overtime, their antennae's setae became panned out and flattened, similar to real world Slipper Lobster antennae, though less sclerotized. These became a sort of horizontal rudder to control pitch. Their pronotum similarly become grossly widened for larger surface area to catch the wind. 

Their distal antennae segments no take up much of their sensory functions

Their forelimbs'  tibia spines modified into widened panned out structures, with a hybrid cross function between a second pair of wings similar to biplanes and pitch control function similar to its antennae.

Its 2nd pair of legs became saltatorial, becoming extremely muscular in order for them to jump and propel themselves into flight.

Their last pair of legs, strangely hosts a membrane stretched out between its tibial spines, a bit differently from their forelimbs, with their tarsal segments modified into extremely elongate structures serving a similar function to halteres.

Their cerci's sensory setae now hosts a pair of vertical membranes, serving a similar purpose to rudders.

Known Descendants: 

( N / A, coming soon )