About Acrophylla wuelfingi (Redtenbacher, 1908)
Acrophylla wuelfingi is a species of stick insect. Like all stick insects, they have long, slender bodies and are large overall. Females grow to much larger sizes and are more heavily built than males. When outstretched legs are excluded from measurement, adult males reach a body length of 90 to 150 millimeters, while adult females reach 180 to 230 millimeters. Many parts of their bodies have small spines: small spiny knobs occur on the thorax, and jagged serrations are present on their front legs. Both sexes develop wings once they reach maturity. Females cannot fly due to their larger body size, while males can only fly for short distances. Males mostly use their wings to startle predators instead of for sustained flight. This species is found exclusively in the far northern section of Queensland, Australia’s eastern coast. It lives in a variety of forest habitats, including rainforest, eucalypt bushland, and She-oak woodlands made up of Allocasuarina species, and can also be found regularly in suburban gardens.
