Phasmotodea (Phasmida)

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Common Name: Stick Insects or Walking Sticks

Order Name Means: "phantom"

Elongate Cryptic body

Can regenerate limbs

Prognathous, mandibulate

Cerci one-segmented

Herbivores

Emit foul-smelling substance

Neopterous, forewings leathery tegmina