Species Parabacillus hesperus - Western Short-horn Walkingstick

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Habitat · Food

Western Short-horned Walking Stick, Parabacillus hesperus - Parabacillus hesperus - female

Walkingstick - Parabacillus hesperus - female

Western Shorthorned Walkingstick - Parabacillus hesperus - female

Walkingstick, ventral - Parabacillus hesperus - female

Walkingstick, dorso-lateral head - Parabacillus hesperus - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Phasmida (Walkingsticks)

Family Heteronemiidae (Common Walkingsticks)

Genus Parabacillus (Short-horn Walkingsticks)

Species hesperus (Western Short-horn Walkingstick)

Explanation of Names

From Greek hesperos ('εσπερος)- "evening, the evening star, west", probably because it's a western species

Range

California and Oregon in the west, east through Arizona, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico to Texas

Habitat

Chaparral and grassland

Food

Eats various scrub and grassland plants

Contributed by Chuck Entz on 8 August, 2006 - 7:34pm
Additional contributions by David Ferguson
Last updated 31 December, 2011 - 9:41am

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