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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Walkingsticks (Phasmida) » Timematidae » Timema
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Timema
Copyright © 2005 David Scriven

Timema
Lakeview Mountains near Hemet, Riverside County, California, USA
April 11, 2005
Size: 15 mm
Order Phasmatodea
Family Timematidae
Genus Timema
Species unknown.

Found crawling on my bedroom carpet. Thought it was an earwig at first. Captured and photographed outdoors the next day.
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Contributed by David Scriven on 14 April, 2005 - 5:35pm
Last updated 7 May, 2006 - 1:41pm

Awesome!
Awesome! I've never seen one looking like this before.
… Brittanie Christina McCormack, 13 July, 2006 - 5:12pm login or register to post comments

cool
I've never seem anything like it! Links I found http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Phasmida and here is a key I found (I'm terrible at using keys) http://www.herper.com/insects/timema.html.
… Lynette Schimming, 15 April, 2005 - 5:47pm login or register to post comments

 
keys
I'd never seen anything like it before, either. I was actually pretty excited by the find. My first phasmid!

I'm terrible at those kinds of keys also -- for one thing, you need a good microscope, which I don't have; and for another thing, you pretty much have to dissect the critter.
… David Scriven, 15 April, 2005 - 10:57pm login or register to post comments

reminds us
of Robin's mystery creature . Are they related?
… john and jane balaban, 14 April, 2005 - 8:48pm login or register to post comments

 
I don't think so
Timemas will hold their antennae straight out like that, but they don't have the enlarged hind legs. Also, I can't really tell -- does that creature have wings?
… David Scriven, 14 April, 2005 - 11:13pm login or register to post comments

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