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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]
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.
Extatosoma tiaratum. This is a list of the Australian Phasmatodea. There are approximately 150 species. The list is organized from family, to subfamily, ...
“Snakes don’t leave footprints, but their movement leaves distinct trails,” Guerrera explains. They also often leave droppings behind. Guerrera describes a “dark, thick” dropping that ...
E. tiaratum actively sways back and forth or side to side when disturbed or when there is a gust of wind, with a frequency distribution like foliage rustling in the wind. This behaviour may represent motion crypsis, preventing detection by predators, or motion masquerade, promoting misclassification (as something other than prey), or a ...
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Extatosoma [1] is a genus of phasmids, in the monotypic subfamily Extatosomatinae, with two species. One occurs in Australia , one in New Guinea . Both have a colour morph imitating leaves, and one imitating lichen.