Stick Insects of North America




	Stick Insects of the Continental United States and Canada Chad Arment, editor ISBN 1-930585-23-3 Retail $12.95 (USD) 202 pp. / Paperback Order through Amazon Order through B & N


	With 41 species in North America, stick insects offer a fascinating challenge to the insect hobbyist. Whether seeking them out for photography, insect collections, natural history studies, or breeding stock, their natural camouflage is both a challenge to and incentive for the hunt. This text offers a brief guide to the genera of stick insects found in the continental United States and Canada. Morphological characters are covered, which can be used with locality data and host plants to successfully identify both genus and species for each of the North American species. A representative distribution for each species is included, showing both state and counties for specimens recorded in published papers and held in museum collections across the country. There is also a bibliography of the most pertinent journal articles and published studies. Also included are 18 classic reprints of systematic, behavioral, and ecological studies of North American stick insects.

				Sample pages (PDF): Megaphasma & Parabacillus Plates from Caudell (1903) Butler (1914)


	Reprinted papers included in the text: The Phasmidæ, or walkingsticks, of the United States Andrew Nelson Caudell (1903) The species of Diapheromera (Phasmidae) found in the United States and Canada Samuel H. Scudder (1901) Two Orthoptera hitherto unrecorded from the United States (excerpt) Andrew Nelson Caudell (1904) Aplopus mayeri, new species Andrew Nelson Caudell (1905) Regarding Diapheromera veleie Walsh and Manomera blatchleyi ... Andrew Nelson Caudell (1918) The Walking-Sticks (extract) W. S. Blatchley (1920) A new walking-stick insect from eastern North America W. T. Davis (1923) The races of Diapheromera veliei ... Morgan Hebard (1931) Studies in Orthoptera which occur in North America north of the Mexican boundary. IV. Synonymy and a New Species of the Genus Diapheromera, (Phasmidae, Heteronemiinae). V. The Pachymorphinae of the United States (Phasmidae) Morgan Hebard (1934) Studies in Orthoptera ... VII. Notes and a new species of Timema, and a new race of Diapheromera velii, (Phasmidae) Morgan Hebard (1937) A study on the structure of the egg of the walking-stick, Diapheromera femorata Say; and the biological significance of the resemblance of phasmid eggs to seeds Henry P. Severin (1910) The effect of moisture and dryness on the emergence from the egg of the walking-stick Diapheromera femorata Say Henry P. Severin and Harry C. Severin (1910) The life-history of the walking-stick, Diapheromera femorata Say Henry P. Severin and Harry C. Severin (1911) The mechanism in the hatching of the walking stick, Diapheromera femorata Say Henry P. Severin and Harry C. Severin (1911) Inheritance in the “Walking-Stick,” Aplopus mayeri Charles R. Stockard (1908) An unusual occurrence of walking-sticks Hortense Butler (1914) Vaporous discharge by Anisomorpha buprestoides W. L. MacAtee (1918)
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