Giant Prickly Stick Insect | 台北市立動物園資訊網

TheGiantPricklyStickInsect,alsorefferredtoasMacleay'sSpectreStickInsect,isalargestickinsectfromAustraliaandNewGuinea.ItsscientificLatinnameis ...

The Giant Prickly Stick Insect, also refferred to as Macleay’s Spectre Stick Insect, is a large stick insect from Australia and New Guinea. Its scientific Latin name is Extatosoma tiaratum. Like almost all stick insects it has a Phasmid Study Group number or psg number: psg 9. This is a very popular species of stick insect, because of the large size and amazing camouflage.

This is a subsubadult female nymph of Extatosoma tiaratum.

This species of stick insect looks more like a cactus than like a twig. Its body is bulky and covered in small spines. On its legs it has big lobes that are also spiked and look like leaves of a desert plant. Extatosoma tiaratum are often light to mid brown, but occasionally you can find green, beige or dark brown varieties. There is also a rare “lic...