Anisomorpha buprestoides: Twostriped Walkingstick
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Description: Photographs and a description of this stick insect, with information on its distribution, identification, habits, habitats and its defensive secretion.
twostriped walkingstick - Anisomorpha buprestoides (Stoll) common name: twostriped walkingstick (Stoll) (Insecta: Phasmatodea: Pseudophasmatidae) The most common stick insect in Florida is (Stoll), the so-called twostriped walkingstick. Other names applied to it and to stick insects in general include devil's riding horse, prairie alligator, stick bug, witch's horse, devil's darning needle, scorpion, and musk mare (Caudell 1903). The last common name is particularly apt as this species is capable of squirting a strong-smelling defensive spray that is painfully irritating to the eyes and mucous membranes (Gray 1835, Meinwald et al. 1962, Eisner 1965, Stewart 1937, Hatch et al. 1993, Paysse et al. 2001, Dziezyc 1992). Several recent inquiries about such incidents prompted the preparation of this circular.
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| Page title: | twostriped walkingstick - Anisomorpha buprestoides (Stoll) |
| Keywords: | twostriped walkingstick Anisomorpha buprestoides Phasmatodea Pseudophasmatidae Michael Thomas |
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| IP-address: | 128.227.242.110 |
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| NS | Name Servers: NS.NAME.UFL.EDU 128.227.30.254 RNS.NAME.UFL.EDU 8.6.245.30 |
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| Date | activated: 25-Mar-1986 last updated: 03-Feb-2014 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |