Editing Phasmatodea (section)

==Select species==
[[File:Acanthoxyla prasina.JPG|thumb|''[[Acanthoxyla prasina]]'', or the prickly stick insect, native to [[New Zealand]], is believed to reproduce by [[parthenogenesis]]; no males were recorded<ref name="odt">"[http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/194387/insect-poses-prickly-questions Insect poses prickly questions]" on ''[[Otago Daily Times]]'' website, viewed 2013-10-16</ref> until 2016, when a single male was discovered in the UK where this lineage has been 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=]]
One Australian species, the [[Lord Howe Island stick insect]], is now listed as critically endangered. It was believed extinct until its rediscovery on the rock known as [[Ball's Pyramid]].<ref>{{cite iucn |author=Rudolf, E. |author2=Brock, P. |date=2017 |title=''Dryococelus australis'' |volume=2017 |page=e.T6852A21426226 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T6852A21426226.en |access-date=13 November 2021}}</ref> An effort is underway in Australia to rear this species in [[captivity (animal)|captivity]].

The best known of the stick insects is the Indian or laboratory stick insect (''[[Carausius morosus]]''). This insect grows to roughly 10&nbsp;cm (4&nbsp;in) and reproduces [[parthenogenesis|parthenogenically]], and although males have been recorded, they are rare.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn74157.html |title=Indian walking stick |author1=Headrick, D.H. |author2=Walen, C.A. |date=1 May 2011 |work=Pests in Gardens and Landscapes |publisher=UC IPM |access-date=10 October 2015}}</ref>

Fossils of the extinct genus and species ''[[Eoprephasma hichensi]]'' have been recovered from [[Ypresian]] age sediments in the U.S. state of [[Washington (state)|Washington]] and [[British Columbia]], Canada. The species is one of the youngest members of the stem phasmatodean group [[Susumanioidea]].<ref name="Archibald2015">{{cite journal |last1=Archibald |first1=SB |last2=Bradler |first2=S |year=2015 |title=Stem-group stick insects (Phasmatodea) in the early Eocene at McAbee, British Columbia, Canada, and Republic, Washington, United States of America |journal=Canadian Entomologist |volume=147 |issue=6 |doi=10.4039/tce.2015.2 |pages=1–10|s2cid=86608533 }}</ref>

=== European species ===
In Europe there are 17 species of stick insects described, belonging to the genera ''[[Bacillus (animal)|Bacillus]]'' ''[[Clonopsis]]'', ''[[Leptynia]]'' and ''[[Pijnackeria]]''. There are also a few other species that live in Europe but are introduced, as for example with a couple of species of ''[[Acanthoxyla]]'', which are native to New Zealand but are present in southern England.

In the Iberian Peninsula there are currently described 13 species and several subspecies. Their life cycle is annual, living only during the hottest months (especially genera ''Leptynia'' and ''Pijnackeria''), which usually means late spring to early autumn.

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File:LeafInsect.jpg|''[[Phyllium]]'' sp., from the [[Western Ghats]]
File:Clonopsis gallica01.jpg|''[[Clonopsis gallica]]''
File:Ctenomorpha chronus02.jpg|''[[Ctenomorpha marginipennis]]''
File:Leptynia hispanica.png|''[[Leptynia hispanica]]''
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