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Timema
Sign in to saveTimema is a genus of relatively short-bodied, stout and wingless stick insects native to the far western United States, and the sole extant member of the family Timematidae. The genus was first described in 1895 by Samuel Hubbard Scudder, based on observations of the species Timema californicum.
Taxonomy · GBIF
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderPhasmida
- FamilyTimematidae
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- Parent taxon
- Timematidae
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- Timema sp. - walking stick insect.jpg
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9 sectionsContents
- Description
- Cryptic coloration and camouflage
- Life cycle and reproduction
- Habitat
- Phylogeny
- Classification
- See also
- References
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Timema is a genus of relatively short-bodied, stout and wingless stick insects native to the far western United States, and the sole extant member of the family Timematidae. The genus was first described in 1895 by Samuel Hubbard Scudder, based on observations of the species Timema californicum.
The genus Timema is considered to be the sister group to all other stick insects. To emphasize this outgroup status, all stick insects not included in Timema are sometimes described as "Euphasmatodea."