Ctenomorpha marginipennis

Margin-winged stick insect at Kioloa, NSW

Ctenomorpha marginipennis at Kioloa, NSW - 10 Jan 2019
Ctenomorpha marginipennis at Kioloa, NSW - 10 Jan 2019
Ctenomorpha marginipennis at Kioloa, NSW - 10 Jan 2019
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Ctenomorpha marginipennis 11 Jan 2019 MattM

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It was on the move! It started climbing all over me while I was sitting beneath Leptospermum. On the hill behind the ANU Kioloa Campus homestead.

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   12 Jan 2019
Looks like a newly hatched nymph of this species. Brock and Hasenpusch show an image of the green morph (both green and brown morphs can be found in the same area) on p.107 of their CSIRO field guide. Your insect looks very similar but early nymphs of different species are probably similar in appearance. But let’s go with this ID for now.
MattM wrote:
   12 Jan 2019
I went with that ID purely because it was the closest match (by appearance) to the other stick insects reported on the site.

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