Stick Insect

When you are a stick insect and creeping through a toilet building you risk being photographed ;) Like this one experienced.
I put him back in the bushes afterward.

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Ferdy Christant

Lion

Nice catch! Only the second photo of a stick insect on JD. Posted 14 years ago

Yannick Bellanger Asper

Green Fly

This is an adult female of Pijnackeria masettii Posted 7 years ago
1. Albert Kang
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks, Yannick for the correct ID :) Posted 7 years ago
2. Joost Thissen
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks! Posted 7 years ago

The Pijnackeria masettii

Pijnackeria masettii is a species of Phasmid from the family of Lonchodidae.

Originally known to be Pijnackeria hispanica, new DNA studies on specimens from various locations have found them to be of different species, with 5 new species described in the year 2013 by Scali, Milani & Passamonti :

- Pijnackeria barbarae
- Pijnackeria lelongi
- Pijnackeria lelongi
- Pijnackeria masettii
- Pijnackeria originis

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Similar species: Stick And Leaf Insects

Species identified by Albert Kang