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Phasmatodea

通用名稱：

Stick insects or leaf insects

分配：

Every continent except Antarctica

棲息地：

On trees in woodlands and tropical forests, mostly in temperate and tropical regions

飲食：

Leaves of trees and shrubs

全球物種數量：

3000

香港的物種數量：

18

形態學
（如何識別它們）：

-Long, cylindrical body like stick or leaf
-Leg segments long and slender
-Wings often reduced or absent
-Prothorax shorter than meso- or metathorax

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你可知道 ？

Stick insects may sway back and forth to more closely resemble a twig moving in the wind. Although called walking sticks, they can walk very fast like running sticks!

畫廊

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