Extatosoma tiaratum, commonly known as the spiny leaf insect, the giant prickly stick insect, Macleay's spectre, or the Australian walking stick, is a...

Extatosoma is a genus of phasmids, in the monotypic subfamily Extatosomatinae, with two species. One occurs in Australia, one in New Guinea. Both have...

Extatosoma popa is a species of stick insect in the genus Extatosoma from New Guinea. The subspecies: E. popa carlbergi (Beccaloni, 1993) previously was...

together 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...

(sometimes in Phasmatinae) Extatosomatinae: contains the single genus Extatosoma Gray, 1833 (found in Australasia) Lonchodinae (sometimes in Diapheromeridae:...

Plate 8 from The Monograph of the Genus Phasma, showing Extatosoma tiaratum...

whereas the adult is aposematic. Phasmid Extatosoma tiaratum adult is a well-camouflaged plant mimic. Extatosoma tiaratum eggs, mimicking ant-dispersed...

Swaying is seen also in some insects, like Macleay's spectre stick insect, Extatosoma tiaratum. The behaviour may be motion crypsis, preventing detection, or...

highly cryptic animals such as the leafy sea dragon, the stick insect Extatosoma tiaratum, and mantises. These animals resemble vegetation with their coloration...

of the Australian Museum, 3(2), 37–44. [Note that he made a mistake re Extatosoma popa and E. tiaratum according to Gurney, A.B. (1947). Notes on some remarkable...

Cooktownia Cooktownia plana subfamily: Tropidoderinae genus: Extatosoma Extatosoma tiaratum Extatosoma popa genus: Podacanthus Podacanthus typhon Podacanthus...

725–731, 807–813 (1921). Hathitrust link Notes on the Spiny Green Phasma (Extatosoma tiaratum). Australian Naturalist, Sydney, iv, 16, 1 October, pp. 235–237...

ants (myrmecophily), resembling the ants in whose nests they live. Young Extatosoma tiaratum stick insect, an ant mimic (adults are phytomimetic) Phytomimesis...

well as the nearby Indonesian islands of Aru and Seram. Newly hatched Extatosoma tiaratum stick insects mimic these ants to avoid predation. Workers of...

native environment. He first bred stick insects at the age of eleven with Extatosoma tiaratum and Haplopus bicuspidatus, which awakened his enthusiasm and...

mantis's wing-buds List of mantis genera and species Dead Leaf Mantis Extatosoma tiaratum For a technical discussion of an aspect of this species' anatomy...

Carlberg, U. (1984). "Oviposition behavior in the Australian stick insect Extatosoma tiaratum". Experientia. 40 (8): 888–889. doi:10.1007/BF01952011. S2CID 42978781...

Melbourne’s invertebrate fauna includes species like the spiny leaf insect (Extatosoma tiaratum), various butterflies, and a range of spiders, all of which contribute...

Erringtonia c g Eucarcharus c g Eupromachus c g Eurycantha c g Eurycnema c g Extatosoma c g Gigantophasma c g Glawiana c g Gongylopus c g Graeffea c g Greenia...

gueldenstaedtii) Poecilia wingei Koi (Cyprinus carpio carpio) Idea leuconoe Achatina fulica Extatosoma tiaratum Brachypelma smithi Atta colombica (Atta sexdens)...

Macleay's swallowtail, Graphium macleayanus, a butterfly. Macleay's spectre, Extatosoma tiaratum, a stick insect. This disambiguation page lists articles associated...