Conlephasma

Conlephasma enigma is a wingless, ground-dwelling species of stick insect in the monotypic genus Conlephasma, and is found on Mount Halcon, on the Philippine island of Mindoro.[1]

Conlephasma enigma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Family: Lonchodidae
Genus: Conlephasma
Gottardo & Heller, 2012
Species:
C. enigma
Binomial name
Conlephasma enigma
Gottardo & Heller, 2012

The species is brightly coloured, with males having a dark bluish-green head and legs, and a bright orange body with bluish-black triangle-shaped spots on the back.[1] Females are less brightly coloured.[1] It sprays a foul-smelling liquid, from glands behind its head, to repel predators.[1]

The species was identified when entomologist Oskar Conle showed Marco Gottardo and Philipp Heller specimens which had been collected some years earlier.[1] They identified it as new to science and allocated it to a new genus[1] in a paper published in Comptes Rendus Biologies.[2]

References
  1. Matt Walker (September 4, 2012). "'Mystery' stick insect discovered". BBC News. Retrieved September 4, 2012.
  2. Marco Gottardo & Philipp Heller (2012). "An enigmatic new stick insect from the Philippine Islands (Insecta: Phasmatodea)". Comptes Rendus Biologies. 335 (9): 594–601. doi:10.1016/j.crvi.2012.07.004.
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