Stick insect (IMAGE)

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Stick insect

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Stick insect, Aclistophasma echinulatum, from Middle Jurassic of China. (A and B) Holotype and Line drawing of A. echinulatum. (C and D) Abdominal extension of A. echinulatum. (¬E) Extant stick insect Heteropteryx dilatata. (¬F and G) Spines of abdominal tergal extension within fossil A. echinulatum and living H. dilatata.

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