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Timema douglasi

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Species of stick insect

Timema douglasi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
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, United States. It was first described in 1996 as a specialist feeder on old-growth Douglas fir. It is one of five parthenogenetic species in the genus Timema.

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. 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. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.05.026. hdl:11370/8c189a5e-f36b-4199-934c-53347c0e2131. PMID 21683598.
Taxon identifiers
Timema douglasi


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