Margin-winged stick insect at Kioloa, NSW
Identification history
| Ctenomorpha marginipennis | 12 Jan 2019 | PaulWhitington | ||
| Ctenomorpha marginipennis | 11 Jan 2019 | MattM |
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User's notes
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.
2 comments
PaulWhitington
wrote:
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.
Location information
- Coordinates 150.374999-35.540544
- Altitude 77.0m
- Places Kioloa, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 10 Jan 2019 11:13 AM Recorded on
- MattM Recorded by
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Insects Stick insects (Phasmatodea) MattM South Coast NatureMapr
Species information
- Ctenomorpha marginipennis Scientific name
- Margin-winged stick insect Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1380m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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