Tisamenus clotho
species of insect
Tisamenus clotho is a stick insect species native to the Philippines.
Description
Females of Tisamenus clotho are light brown to buckthorn brown and often show other shades of brown, with the head and legs being darker. They reach lengths about 56 millimetres (2.2 in). Males are significantly smaller and dark brown. The head is almost square and only slightly longer than wide. The supraorbitals are formed as three prominent, elongated tubercles. The occipitals and median coronals are present as flat tubercles, the lateral coronals are bifid, rounded tubercles. As with Tisamenus deplanatus, the triangular region typical of the genus on the mesonotum is relatively short, reaching just under the middle of the mesothorax, where it forms an approximately equilateral triangle forms. From the center of the base of the triangle at the anterior edge of the mesonotum, a faintly indicated carina runs across the triangle to its posterior angle. From there it extends as a prominent longitudinal carina further over the rest of the mesonotum and the entire metanotum.
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