Stick InsectStick Insect| Barbados 1990 | Tuvalu 2001 | Taiwan 1997 | Dominican Republic 1999 |
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| God horse Bostra maxwelli (Phasmatidae) |
Stick Insect Chondrostethus woodfordi (Phasmatidae) |
Walking Stick Megacrania tsudai (Phasmatidae) |
Stick Insect Aplopus sp. (Phasmatidae) |
| Fiji 2006 | Fiji 2006 | Fiji 2006 |
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| Giant Stick Insect Hermarchus apollonius (Phasmatidae) |
Fijian Stick Insect Cotylosoma dipneusticum (Phasmatidae) |
Coconut Stick Insect Graeffea crouanii (Phasmatidae) |
| Palau 2011 SILVER |
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| Giant Prickly Stick Insect Extatosoma tiaratum (Phasmatidae) |
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| Walking Stick Megacrania tsudai (Phasmatidae) (PHASMDA) |
Stick Insect is the Insecta which was most adapted for the life on tree. Generally the body is a large-sized insect, although it is thin, and it lives in the Torrid Zone in Southeast Asia. The body and the leg which carried out mimicry to the wooden branch and were extended long and slender are the feature.
A small head eats a leaf by front mouth style by which the mouth was ahead suitable. Although there are many kinds without a wing, also by the species of an owner wing, a front wing is very smaller than a back wing, and wing venation has also degenerated remarkably. Fan-like parts of thin membrane material occupies most and a back wing is thinly folded on the body in the shape of a fan.
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