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''Acrophylla titan'', the titan stick insect, is the second-longest
Titan stick insects are pale brown-grey in colour and can grow up to in body length. The females can be easily identified as being larger than the males. Males are able to fly but females are not.
Phasmid Study Group: Acrophylla titanQueensland Museum Factsheet
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stick insect
The Phasmatodea (also known as Phasmida, Phasmatoptera or Spectra) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick-bugs, walking sticks, stick animals, or bug sticks. They are also occasionally referred to as ...
found in Australia
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It is native to south-east Queensland
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Description
Titan stick insects are pale brown-grey in colour and can grow up to in body length. The females can be easily identified as being larger than the males. Males are able to fly but females are not.
Breeding
Titans breed during winter/summer. During the mating process, the male connects his abdomen to the lower part of the female's egg compartment. Mating can take up to 40mins and is repeated several times. The female will end up with a fat abdomen and will produce many eggs (200 to 1000) in her lifetime. The females then flick their eggs to the ground. The eggs look like those of the children's stick insect (''Tropidoderus childrenii'') but they are black-grey with a small white growth. Ants pick them up and eat the growth, and leave the egg in the refinery where they hatch.See also
*List of Australian stick insects and mantids
This is an incomplete list of mantids and stick insects found in Australia.
Common species
* Titan stick insect, '' Acrophylla titan''
* Tesselated phasmid, '' Anchiale austrotessulata''
* Large brown mantis, '' Archimantis latistyla''
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* Spur legged phasmid
* Children's stick insect
* Goliath stick insect
External links
Phasmid Study Group: Acrophylla titan
{{Taxonbar, from=Q481994 Phasmatodea Insects of Australia Endemic fauna of Australia Insects described in 1827