Pink-winged phasma

Pink-winged phasma

Taxobox
name = Pink-winged phasma


image_width = 250px
image_caption = Pink-winged phasma's wings
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Phasmatodea
familia = Phasmatidae
subfamilia = typhon
genus = "Podacanthus"
species = "Typhon"
binomial = "Podacanthus typhon"

The pink-winged phasma ("Podacanthus typhon") is found on Australia along with three other species in the genus "typhon". "P. typhon" is a small stick insect compared with the titan stick insect, its size is comparable to the children's stick insect.

Identification

The pink-winged phasma's body is primarily green, it has a purple-red upper-abdomen along with blue wing joints and pink wings. The meso thorax is reduced in size and has small spines, from the meso thorax goes the largely wide wing-set. Underneath the wing-set are spines that cover a small part of the second thorax and abdomen.


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