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Extatosoma tiaratum, commonly known as the spiny leaf insect, the giant prickly stick insect, [2] Macleay's spectre, [3] or the Australian walking stick, is a large species of Australian stick insect. [4] [5] The species has the Phasmid Study Group number PSG9. [6]
Extatosoma [1] is a genus of phasmids, in the monotypic subfamily Extatosomatinae, with two species. ... Extatosoma tiaratum (Macleay, 1826) - type species (Australia)
Extatosoma tiaratum. This is a list of the Australian Phasmatodea. There are approximately 150 species. ... Extatosoma tiaratum; Extatosoma popa; genus: Podacanthus.
One extant species, Leptomyrmex relictus, is known from central Brazil; [3] otherwise, the global distribution of this genus is restricted to eastern Australia, New Caledonia and New Guinea, as well as the nearby Indonesian islands of Aru and Seram. [4] Newly hatched Extatosoma tiaratum stick insects mimic these ants to avoid predation. [5]
Bactrododema tiaratum: Scientific classification ... contains the single genus Extatosoma Gray, 1833 ... the extinct subfamily Echinosomiscinae is known from the ...
Some species, such as the young nymphs of Extatosoma tiaratum, ... (1 genus and 8 species), Timematodea (1 genus and 21 species) and Euphasmatodea ...
Notes on the Spiny Green Phasma (Extatosoma tiaratum). Australian Naturalist, Sydney, iv, 16, 1 October, pp. 235–237 (1921) [ 2 ] Description of a new phasma belonging to the genus Extatosoma .
The phasmid Extatosoma tiaratum, resembling dried thorny leaves as an adult, hatches from the egg as a replica of a Leptomyrmex ant, with a red head and black body. The long end is curled to make the body shape appear ant-like, and the movement is erratic, while the adults move differently, if at all.