AlexPan
10-23-2007, 08:41 AM
Giant Stick Bug (Phobaeticus serratipes, formerly known as Pharnacia serratipes) (PSG-25)
Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Sub-Order: Anareolatae
Family: Phasmatidae
Sub-Family: Phasmatinae
Genus: Phobaeticus
Species: serratipes
Year: ???
Distribution: West Malaysia, Singapore.
This specie holds the record for the longest individual insect ever at 55.5cm long. One of the hardest thing to do is to raise them to maturity in captivity without them losing any legs. Usually takes 4-5 month for their eggs to hatch. They have to be kept at 24-25°C, 70-80% damp.
A nymphs hatching:
http://www.phasmidsincyberspace.com/Pictures/P.S6.JPG
I have lost my P. serratipes culture. They were doing great for me, but then when all have hatched from the parents that I hatched and grew up, during a couple of months all (around 200) have died. Some have died from molting problems, others from not eating Bramble, though their parents were fed on Bramble their whole life. I think the molting problems can be blamed on not feeding their parents anything but Bramble, thus they had not enaph nutrience to sustain a healthy exoskeleton. Though I still wander why other nymphs would not eat.
Females: are commonly green but sometimes brown.
Adult female:
http://www.phasmidsincyberspace.com/Pictures/P.S15.JPG
Males: are much shorter than females. Males have a blue and a black stripe along the sides of the thorax, and are winged, but cannot fly. Their wings get 5 1/2 inches (14cm) long.
Diet: Oak, Bramble, Photinia, Red/ Yellow Salmon Berry.
Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Sub-Order: Anareolatae
Family: Phasmatidae
Sub-Family: Phasmatinae
Genus: Phobaeticus
Species: serratipes
Year: ???
Distribution: West Malaysia, Singapore.
This specie holds the record for the longest individual insect ever at 55.5cm long. One of the hardest thing to do is to raise them to maturity in captivity without them losing any legs. Usually takes 4-5 month for their eggs to hatch. They have to be kept at 24-25°C, 70-80% damp.
A nymphs hatching:
http://www.phasmidsincyberspace.com/Pictures/P.S6.JPG
I have lost my P. serratipes culture. They were doing great for me, but then when all have hatched from the parents that I hatched and grew up, during a couple of months all (around 200) have died. Some have died from molting problems, others from not eating Bramble, though their parents were fed on Bramble their whole life. I think the molting problems can be blamed on not feeding their parents anything but Bramble, thus they had not enaph nutrience to sustain a healthy exoskeleton. Though I still wander why other nymphs would not eat.
Females: are commonly green but sometimes brown.
Adult female:
http://www.phasmidsincyberspace.com/Pictures/P.S15.JPG
Males: are much shorter than females. Males have a blue and a black stripe along the sides of the thorax, and are winged, but cannot fly. Their wings get 5 1/2 inches (14cm) long.
Diet: Oak, Bramble, Photinia, Red/ Yellow Salmon Berry.