Key Identification Features
- It also has two distinct Australian populations: one on Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula, and the other on the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
- Only males of this species have distinct spurs, located on their thicker hind legs, which gives the insect its spur-legged common name.
- The species displays variation in the number and size of its characteristic spines, including a distinctive projection located under the abdomen at the base of the subgenital plate.
- This species, commonly called the crowned stick insect, can be identified by the following characteristics.
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