
Stick Insect, Phasmid - Pylaemenes guangxiensis
This Female Phasmid - Pylaemenes guangxiensis was first described from mainland China and eventually, similar looking Phasmid were also found in Hong Kong Island itself and described as Pylaemenes hongkongensis.
However, further publications have identified both to be the same, thus Pylaemenes hongkongensis is considered a synonym of Pylaemenes guangxiensis.

Pylaemenes guangxiensis is a stick insect originally described by Bi & Li (1994) as Datames guangxiensis.
Similar species: Stick And Leaf Insects
By Albert Kang
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Uploaded Sep 27, 2016. Captured Oct 4, 2015 03:02 in I Po Kau Forest Walks Red Walk, Tai Po Kau, Hong Kong.