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Stick insect

Stick insect
Temporal range: Cretaceous – Recent
Leptynia hispanica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Superorder:
Exopterygota
Order:
Phasmatodea
Suborders
Stick insect Ctenomorphodes chronus
Acanthoxyla prasina or the prickly stick insect, native to New Zealand. It may reproduce by parthenogenesis; no males were recorded until 2016 when a single male was discovered in the UK where this phasmid was introduced.[1]
Mating pair of Anisomorpha buprestoides
Good example of a hindwing startle display from a male Peruphasma schultei

Stick insects (also called phasmids, walking sticks, stick-bugs, or ghost insects) are insects in the order Phasmatodea (or Phasmida).

The whole order is camouflaged as either sticks or leaves. Leaf insects are generally the family Phylliidae. They are found in south and southeast Asia to New Zealand.

Over 3,000 species have been described.[2]

The name Phasmatodea comes from the Ancient Greek phasma, meaning an apparition or phantom.

  1. ↑ Brock, Paul (2018). "Missing stickman found: The first male of the parthenogenetic New Zealand Phasmid genus Acanthoxyla Uvarov, 1944 discovered in the United Kingdom". Atropos. 60: 16–23.
  2. ↑ Bragg P.E. (2001) Phasmids of Borneo, Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu. p614
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