Acanthoxyla prasina (Westwood, 1859)
(a stick insect)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesAcanthoxyla prasina (a stick insect)
GenusAcanthoxyla (a genus of stick insects)
FamilyPHASMATIDAE (a family of stick insects)
OrderPHASMATODEA (stick insects)
Division Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Brock, P.D., Lee, M., Morgan-Richards, M. & Trewick, S.A. 2018 Missing stickman found: the first male of the parthenogenetic New Zealand phasmid genus Acanthoxyla Uvarov, 1944 discovered in the United Kingdom Atropos Vol 60: 16-23.

Acanthoxyla prasina (a stick insect) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Acanthoxyla prasina (a stick insect)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Acanthoxyla prasina (a stick insect)
Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

Photographs from other photographers are used with permission but not included under the above CC licence.

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)