Timema douglasi

Timema douglasi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Phasmatodea
Suborder:	Timematodea
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. PMID 21683598.

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[sandoval1996-1] 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.

[schwander2011-2] 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. PMID 21683598.