Biology:Parabacillus hesperus

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Short description: Species of insect

Parabacillus hesperus
Insect Specimen from LAKE Collection (34027970922).jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Family: Heteronemiidae
Genus: Parabacillus
Species:
P. hesperus
Binomial name
Parabacillus hesperus
Hebard, 1934

Parabacillus hesperus, the western short-horn walkingstick, is a species of walkingstick in the family Heteronemiidae.[1][2][3][4] It is found in North America.[2] This species is found in dry, arid in the summer and fall. Their diet consists of various scrub and grassland plants. Through an adaptation called "crypsis," it blends in so perfectly with its natural habitat that it often goes completely undetected by would-be predators.

Western short-horn walkingstick, Parabacillus hesperus

References

Further reading

  • Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. 2nd Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9. 
  • Brock, Paul D. (1999). The amazing world of stick and leaf-insects. 26. The Amateur Entomologists' Society. ISBN 0-900054-63-8. 
  • Otte, Daniel; Brock, Paul (2005). Phasmida Species File: Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the World. Second Edition. Insect Diversity Association at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. ISBN 1-929014-08-2. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q10616778 entry