Dog-eared Stick Insect
S1 Male, head
Dog-eared Stick Insect
S1 Male, abdomen "tail"
| Dog-eared Stick Insect S1 Male, head | | Dog-eared Stick Insect S1 Male, abdomen "tail" | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Stick Insects (Phasmida) | ||||
| Family: | Stick Insect (Phasmatidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Dog-eared Stick Insect (Hyrtacus tuberculatus) | ||||
| This Photo: | S1 Male, abdomen spines | ||||
| Other name: | Lobed-Abdomen Stick Insect | ||||
Thank you Matthew Connors & Aidan Beutel for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere The adult male was ~55mm long, the adult female was considerably larger and just over 80mm. The body parts of stick insects are a little harder to work out than most insects. It looks like they have 5 main parts rather than 3. This is because the thorax is broken up into 3 distinct parts, where it often looks like one. The head is obvious, then the thorax starts with the pronotum (looks like a collar behind the head). The 2nd part of the thorax is the Mesonotum & the 3rd part is the Metanotum, followed up by the abdomen from the hindlegs back. | |||||
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