''Anisomorpha ferruginea'' is a species in the family
Pseudophasmatidae
Pseudophasmatidae is a family (biology), family of stick insect, in the suborder Verophasmatodea, commonly called the "striped walkingsticks".
An important identifying characteristic is its mesothorax, which is never more than three times as lon ...
("striped walkingsticks"), in the order
Phasmatodea
The Phasmatodea (also known as Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an Order (biology), order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick bugs, walkingsticks, stick animals, or bug sticks. They are also occasionally referred ...
("walkingsticks").
[Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)]
/ref> Common names include "northern two-striped walkingstick", "dark walkingstick", and "prairie alligator".[Encyclopedia of Life]
''Anisomorpha ferruginea'' species overview.
''Anisomorpha ferruginea'' is found in North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere, Northern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South Ameri ...
.[ This insect can spray a defensive mist that contains a ]terpene
Terpenes () are a class of natural products consisting of compounds with the formula (C5H8)n for n ≥ 2. Terpenes are major biosynthetic building blocks. Comprising more than 30,000 compounds, these unsaturated hydrocarbons are produced predomi ...
dialdehyde
In organic chemistry, an aldehyde () (lat. ''al''cohol ''dehyd''rogenatum, dehydrogenated alcohol) is an organic compound containing a functional group with the structure . The functional group itself (without the "R" side chain) can be referred ...
.
References
Further reading
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* Otte, Daniel, and Paul Brock (2003). ''Phasmida Species File: A Catalog of the Stick and Leaf Insects of the World'', 505.
External links
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, ''Anisomorpha ferruginea''
Phasmatodea
Insects described in 1805
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