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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Walkingsticks (Phasmida) » Heteronemiidae » Short-horn Walkingsticks (Parabacillus) » Western Short-horn Walkingstick (Parabacillus hesperus)

Species Parabacillus hesperus - Western Short-horn Walkingstick

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Habitat · Food
Western Shorthorned Walkingstick - Parabacillus hesperus - female Western Shorthorned Walkingstick - Parabacillus hesperus - female Walking stick, unkown species and gender - Parabacillus hesperus Walking stick, unkown species and gender - Parabacillus hesperus - Parabacillus hesperus Walkingstick, ventral - Parabacillus hesperus - female Walkingstick, dorso-lateral head - Parabacillus hesperus - female Walkingstick, ventral head - Parabacillus hesperus - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Phasmida (Walkingsticks)
Family Heteronemiidae
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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