Stick insects (from the Old World) (IMAGE)

University of Göttingen

Stick insects (from the Old World)

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Even though they are so strikingly different, these stick insects from the Old World are genetically more similar to each other than their relatives that are geographically distance in the New World. Shown here: female of Australian Giant Prickly stick insect Extatosoma tiaratum, female of Indian stick insect Carausius morosus, and a pair of "tree lobster" stick insects Eurycantha calcarata from New Guinea.

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Christoph Seiler

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