Orange Stick Insect
Male, Body
Ellura
Orange Stick Insect
Male, Wings (closed)
 
                      
Orange Stick Insect (Lysicles sp)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Stick Insects (Phasmida)
Family: Stick Insect (Phasmatidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Orange Stick Insect (Lysicles sp)
This Photo:     🔍Male, Head & Neck🔎

Thank you Aidan Beutel for identifying and Ethan Beaver & Matthew Connors for helping with the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Originally thought to be Children's Stick Insect (Tropidoderus childrenii), named after zoologist John George Children, not because children like them.
More details about him can be found here John George Children
Thank you to Frank Prinz & Martin Lagerwey for the link; via Bowerbird.

Copyright © 2013-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 28-Jan-2013
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.