New Zealand Invertebrates

DSC_7997 Prickly stick insect (Acanthoxyla geisovii) detail of head. 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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DSC_7997 Prickly stick insect (Acanthoxyla geisovii) detail of head. 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 *

DSC 7997 prickly stick insect spiny acanthoxyla geisovii black spined invertebrate