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Walking Stick
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Field Notes
Description:
A stick insect from the order Phasmida (probably Diapheromeridae)
This species is not equipped with wings (some species can fly).
Its body is green except for its head and the tips of the legs which are orange in color.
Body length is about 10cm.
Almost every body part of this insect is long - thorax, abdomen, legs, antennas.
The tip of it's abdomen which is a purplish brown is a little swollen.
Even though these walking stick insect are nocturnal, they are seen commonly walking in broad daylight here in Kinabalu Park.
Habitat:
Leafy plants that camouflages it in Kinabalu National Park, Kundasang, Sabah, Malaysia.
Notes:
One of the 3 different species of Phasmatodea insects I saw on the same day in Kinabalu Park.
>>>Map accuracy : 400m diameter.
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