Epidares

Epidares
Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Family: Heteropterygidae
Tribe: Datamini
Genus: Epidares
Redtenbacher, 1906
Species:
E. nolimetangere
Binomial name
Epidares nolimetangere
(de Haan, 1842)

Epidares nolimetangere, the touch-me-not stick insect, is an insect species from the order of the Phasmatodea and the only representative of the genus Epidares. The species name nolimetangere (originally: noli-me-tangere) comes from Latin and means "don't touch me". It refers to the prickly appearance of the animals.

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