Stick insects - New World and Old World comparison (IMAGE)
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Stick insect relatives: different in appearance but of the same origin. Surprisingly, New World (above) and Old World stick insects (below) form their own evolutionary lines within this insect group, as a new genomic study shows. From top left to bottom right: pair of Mexican stick insects Pseudosermyle phalangiphora, female of Metriophasma diocles from Panama, pair of Black Velvet stick insects Peruphasma schultei from Peru, female of Australian Giant Prickly stick insect Extatosoma tiaratum, female of Indian stick insect Carausius morosus, a pair of "tree lobster" stick insects Eurycantha calcarata from New Guinea
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Christoph Seiler
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