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| Name | latin |
Bacillus rossius |
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Mediterrain Stick Insect |
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| | PSG-Number | 3 |
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| | Systematics | Super-Order |
Dictyoptera |
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Phasmatodea |
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Phylliidae |
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Bacillinae |
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Bacillini |
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| | First Description | Author |
ROSSI |
| Year |
1788 |
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| Size
Quotation of Size
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The given size is measured from the head to the end of the abdomen, without the wings.
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| | | Female |
ca. 8cm- 9cm |
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| Lifespan
Quotation of the Lifespan
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The lifespan is given in month and has the following definition:
overall-age ("time between hatching and imago" + "lifespan after the last molting")
Example: 9 (2 + 7) month lifespan
overall-age = 9 month
time between hatching and imago = 2 month
lifespan after the last molting = 7 month
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| | | Female |
5 ( 2 + 3) months |
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| Sexing
Sexing
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Morphologically differences between male and female.
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adult: thinner than females |
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adult: more compact than males |
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| | | | | Spreading | southeuropean Mediterranean area (Spain, France, Italy, Croatia, the Balkans) |
| The description of this species is based on individuals of the following origin:
Putini (Croatia) |
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| | Habitat | on forage crops, bushes, shrubbes, dry grassland, border of wood
inhabts dry, warm areas |
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| | Aggressiveness | none |
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| | Colorvariants | shades of green and brown |
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| | Hint | In Mediterranean area live besides Bacillus rossius, Clonopsis gallica and Leptynia hispanica.
During the winter, they make a diapause in their eggs. Adults die when it gets colder. The autumn- eggs overwinter and the nymphs hatch in spring, when temperature rises. Till the end of spring those larvae become adult and lay eggs. These eggs hatch without a diapause. The nymphs grow till the end of summer/ beginning autumn. Whose eggs overwinter.
Thus 2 generations grow in a year. |
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