Master of Camouflage Leaf Bug / Walking Leaves

Among the biggest stick insects of the world stand Dryococelus australis (Montrouzier, 1885), deemed extinct and then rediscovered in 2001, living in Lord Howe Island (island belonging to the Asutralian territory located east of Australia); the Spiny leaf insect (Extatosoma tiaratum Macleay, 1826) living in the Australian states of Queensland and of New South Wales and Heteropteryx dilatata Parkinson, 1798, living in the Malaysian Peninsula, whose bodies reach respectively the length of 15 and 20 and 25 cm.

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