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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Walkingsticks (Phasmida) » Striped Walkingsticks (Pseudophasmatidae) » Anisomorpha » Southern Two-striped Walkingstick (Anisomorpha buprestoides)
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Walkingstick - Anisomorpha buprestoides - male
Copyright © 2005 Lew Scharpf

Walkingstick - Anisomorpha buprestoides - Male
Auburn, Lee County, Alabama, USA
May 20, 2005
Male walkingstick Anisomorpha spp.?

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Walkingstick - Anisomorpha buprestoides - male - female Walkingstick - Anisomorpha buprestoides - male
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Contributed by Lew Scharpf on 22 May, 2005 - 6:58pm
Last updated 3 July, 2008 - 3:59pm

Looks like it.
I think your ID is correct. A word of caution to folks, these insects can squirt an extremely irritating chemical at you over a distance of several inches. If they hit you in the eye, it is very painful as I understand it. There is at least one pair of glands near the insect's neck, not its tail.
… Eric R. Eaton, 24 May, 2005 - 4:22pm login or register to post comments

 
Walking Stick Irritant
I was completely unaware that these guys did that. We found a family of them in the garage of my beach house, the mother of which, being dead. The father was carrying the baby on his back... which is likely why he decided to "spray" when we were observing him.
LUCKILY I was missed, but my male counterpart's eyes were not... he said it felt like his face was on fire, and his eyes and face were red for some time. It was an unfortunate, but really interesting discovery.
Hexapedes amaze me!
… BattleAxe, 3 October, 2007 - 11:34am login or register to post comments

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