New Zealand Invertebrates

DSC_8041 Prickly stick insect (Acanthoxyla geisovii) detail of abdomen. This green and white morph is one of the more attractively patterned of our green stick insects. This genus is very unusual as all populations are female and they reproduce by parthenogenesis. Otago Peninsula *

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