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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Walkingsticks (Phasmida) » Diapheromeridae » Diapheromera » Creosote Bush Walkingstick (Diapheromera covilleae)
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Tan Walking Stick - Diapheromera covilleae - male
Copyright © 2006 Jim McClarin

Tan Walking Stick - Diapheromera covilleae - Male
Organ Mountains foothills, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
August 6, 2006
Collected by day by sweeping and beating various shrubs. Did not measure, but it was 60 - 80 mm judging by ruler segment in one photo.

The insect was dead or nearly so in this photo, having been kept too long awaiting a photo session. It was posed on this vegetation, which is unlikely to be a host plant for this species. I note that, like the Greasew*ood Walkingstick, this one has small horns above its eyes, so I suspect they are closely related

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 17 September, 2006 - 8:06pm
Last updated 31 December, 2011 - 7:18am

sorry I took so long to notice this one
This is male nymph of D. covilleae as you suspected. It probably came off of a Creosote Bush Larrea divaricata.

Moved from Walkingsticks.
… David J. Ferguson, 31 December, 2011 - 7:18am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you, David.
Good to have it nailed down by someone who knows what they're looking at :-)
… Jim McClarin, 31 December, 2011 - 10:45am login or register to post comments

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