What is Stick insect?
{{taxobox |fossil_range= [[Cretaceous]] – Recent | image = Le Caylar fg01.JPG | image_width = 230px | image_caption = ''[[Leptynia hispanica]]'' | authority = [[Georgij Georgiewitsch Jacobson|Jacobson]] & [[Valentin Lvovich Bianchi|Bianchi]], 1902 | regnum = [[Animalia]] | phylum = [[Arthropoda]] | classis = [[Insecta]] | superordo = [[Exopterygota]] | ordo = '''Phasmatodea''' | subdivision_ranks = Suborders | subdivision = * [[Agathemerodea]]: only the genus ''[[Agathemera]]'' * [[Timematodea]]: only the primitive genus ''[[Timema]]'' * '''Verophasmatodea''': all the other stick and leaf insects}} [[File:Ctenomorpha chronus02.jpg|thumb|right|230px|Stick insect ''Ctenomorphodes chronus'']] [[File:Acanthoxyla prasina.JPG|thumb|''[[Acanthoxyla prasina]]'' or the prickly stick insect, native to [[New Zealand]]. It may reproduce by [[parthenogenesis]]; no males were recorded until 2016 when a single male was discovered in the UK where this phasmid was introduced.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Brock|first=Paul|date=2018|title=Missing stickman found: The first male of the parthenogenetic New Zealand Phasmid genus Acanthoxyla Uvarov, 1944 discovered in the United Kingdom|journal=Atropos|volume=60|pages=16–23}}</ref>|alt=]] [[File:Anisomorpha-male-female.jpg|thumb|Mating pair of ''Anisomorpha buprestoides'']] [[File:Flügel Peruphasma schultei.jpg|thumb|Good example of a hindwing startle display from a male ''Peruphasma schultei'']] '''Stick insects''' (also called phasmids, walking sticks, stick-bugs, or ghost insects) are [[insect]]s in the [[Order (biology)|order]] '''Phasmatodea''' (or '''Phasmida'''). The whole order is [[camouflage]]d as either [[stick]]s or [[Leaf|leaves]]. [[Leaf insect]]s are generally the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Phylliidae]]. They are found in south and [[southeast Asia]] to [[New Zealand]]. Over 3,000 species have been described.<ref>Bragg P.E. (2001) ''Phasmids of Borneo'', Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu. p614</ref> The name Phasmatodea comes from the [[Ancient Gre