#NewSpecies!
New stick insect from #australia just got stuck:
Acrophylla alta
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D72B1D-4F56-543C-FF7D-6702FAF2FA19
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5647.4.4
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#NewSpecies!
New stick insect from #ecuador just got stuck:
Trychopeplus mashpiensis
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/F2317335-BBE0-4CBF-8A42-3363832F8965
Publication: http://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1217.130397
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A stick insect (probably western short-horned walkingstick, Parabacillus hesperus). I rescued it from our pool this morning.
A pretty stick insect.
Seen a long ago when home was a tent on a dusty piece of land in the north of Senegal.
A Stick Insect, Presbistus peleus, spotted at Dairy Farm Nature Park, Singapore, along the Wallace Trail, on 17 June 2024. Looked like a twig stuck to the leaf, but decided to have a closer look and saw what it was.
Stick Insects are, of course, a master of disguise and usually only move when necessary. So, spotting one is never easy.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/223300589 ].
Animal photo: striking stick insect
Seven new ‘walking leaf’ #insect species discovered https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/31/new-walking-leaf-insect-species-discovered-genetic-analysis
On seven undescribed #LeafInsect species revealed within the recent “Tree of Leaves” (#Phasmatodea, Phylliidae) https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/104413/
"Researchers used genetic analysis to identify species that cannot be distinguished by appearance alone"
A winter visitor, the stick insect. The elegant and discreet structure of head and eyes (you really don't want these to be obvious if you're pretending to be something with no head and no eyes) is pretty amazing.
Wonder of nature!
