| Timema douglasi | |
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Scientific 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. 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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
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