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Extatosoma tiaratum,
commonly known as the
spiny leaf insect, the
giant prickly stick insect, Macleay's spectre, or the
Australian walking stick, is a...
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parts of the wings. Some species, such as the
young nymphs of
Extatosoma tiaratum, have been
observed to curl the
abdomen upwards over the body and head...
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Plate 8 from The
Monograph of the
Genus Phasma,
showing Extatosoma tiaratum...
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cryptic animals such as the
leafy sea dragon, the
stick insect Extatosoma tiaratum, and mantises.
These animals resemble vegetation with
their coloration...
- also in some insects, like Macleay's
spectre stick insect,
Extatosoma tiaratum. The
behaviour may be
motion crypsis,
preventing detection, or
motion masquerade...
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Species File lists:
Extatosoma popa Stål, 1875 (New Guinea)
Extatosoma tiaratum (Macleay, 1826) - type
species (Australia) Gray GR (1833) The Entomology...
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adult is aposematic.
Phasmid Extatosoma tiaratum adult is a well-camouflaged
plant mimic.
Extatosoma tiaratum eggs,
mimicking ant-dis****d (myrmecochoric)...
- (myrmecophily),
resembling the ants in
whose nests they live.
Young Extatosoma tiaratum stick insect, an ant
mimic (adults are phytomimetic)
Phytomimesis is mimicry...
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Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Bactrododema tiaratum Scientific classification Domain:
Eukaryota Kingdom:
Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda...
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Cooktownia plana subfamily:
Tropidoderinae genus:
Extatosoma Extatosoma tiaratum Extatosoma popa genus:
Podacanthus Podacanthus typhon Podacanthus viridiroseus...
