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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Walkingsticks (Phasmida) » Common Walkingsticks (Heteronemiidae) » Short-horn Walkingsticks (Parabacillus) » Western Short-horn Walkingstick (Parabacillus hesperus)
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Walking stick, unkown species and gender - Parabacillus hesperus
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Walking stick, unkown species and gender - Parabacillus hesperus
Death Valley National Park, entrance sign on the Bonnie Clare Road (Northeastern entrance), Inyo County, California, USA
November 21, 2009
The person who took this image no longer works in Death Valley National Park. I am trying to identify images on the Park's shared drives and have no experience with this insect.

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Walking stick, unkown species and gender - Parabacillus hesperus Walking stick, unkown species and gender - Parabacillus hesperus
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Contributed by Stacy Holt on 6 March, 2012 - 8:02pm
Last updated 7 March, 2012 - 9:00pm

That is indeed what this is.
Stacy, I took the liberty of moving these to the species page, but if you don't want them to remain on BugGuide, you can delete them.

Moved from ID Request.
… David J. Ferguson, 7 March, 2012 - 9:00pm login or register to post comments

Western Short horn maybe
Parabacillus hesperus, would be my guess.
… Shaun Michael, 7 March, 2012 - 6:46pm login or register to post comments

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