Timema douglasi

Timema douglasi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Suborder: Timematodea
Family: Timematidae
Genus: Timema
Species: T. douglasi
Binomial name
Timema douglasi
(Sandoval and Vickery, 1996)

Timema douglasi is a stick insect native to northern California and southern Oregon. It was first identified in 1996 as a specialist feeder on old-growth Douglas fir.[1] It is one of five parthenogenetic species of Timema.[2]

References

  1. ^ Sandoval, Cristina P.; Vernon R. Vickery (1996). "Timema douglasi (Phasmatoptera: Timematodea), a new parthenogenetic species from southeastern Oregon and northern California, with notes on other species.". The Canadian Entomologist 128: 79–84. doi:10.4039/Ent12879-1. http://pubs.esc-sec.ca/doi/abs/10.4039/Ent12879-1. Retrieved 19 July 2011. 
  2. ^ Schwander, Tanja; Lee Henry, Bernard J Crespi (2011). "Molecular evidence for ancient asexuality in timema stick insects.". Current Biology 21 (13): 1129–34. PMID 21683598.