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unusual facts about stick insect



Conlephasma

Conlephasma enigma is a wingless, ground-dwelling species of stick insect in the genus Conlephasma, and is found on on Mount Halcon, on the Philippine island of Mindoro.

Megacrania batesii

The Peppermint Stick Insect (Megacrania batesii) is a bluish-green coloured stick insect that only lives on the midribs of the leaves of the "screwpine" Pandanus tectorius.


see also

A. horridus

Argosarchus horridus, the New Zealand giant stick insect, a stick insect species endemic to New Zealand

Giant Spiny

Extatosoma tiaratum (suggested common name: Giant Prickly Stick Insect)

Eurycantha calcarata (suggested common name: Giant Spiny Stick Insect / Thorny Devil Stick Insect)

LAURON

For example,the ratios of the leg segments to each other were similar to ratios found in the stick insect Carausius Morosus.

Phasmid

Dryococelus australis, the Lord Howe Island phasmid (stick insect or tree lobster)