[RPG] the winged creature on the back of the Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes book

artbookscontent-identificationdnd-5emonsters

On the back of the Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes book, there is a small creature with wings:

enter image description here

What is this creature? It doesn't match any of the creatures in any of the monster manuals. It kind of looks like an imp, but it clearly isn't one, and my only other guess is that maybe it's some kind of homunculus?

Best Answer

It appears to be a Berbalang

coverart

Looking through the pictures in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes it most looks like the Berbalang.

Wizards of the coast has been known to put baby pictures of monsters in their books.

As such I suspect it's a baby Berbalang. For reference a Berbalang looks like this:

berbalang