![]() | Dog-eared Stick Insect Adult Male, abdomen "tail" | Children's Stick Insect Male, whole | ![]() | |||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Stick Insects (Phasmida) | ||||
Family: | Stick Insect (Phasmatidae) | ||||
Species: | Dog-eared Stick Insect (Hyrtacus tuberculatus) | ||||
This Photo: | Adult Male, ventral | ||||
Other name: | Lobed-Abdomen Stick Insect | ||||
Thank you Matthew Connors for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere The adult is about 50-55mm long | |||||
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