Smooth Stick-insect

Clitarchus hookeri

Clitarchus hookeri, commonly known as the smooth stick insect or the common stick insect, is a stick insect of the family Phasmatidae, endemic to New Zealand. It is possibly New Zealand's most common stick insect. Clitarchus hookeri is often green in appearance, but can also be brown or red. Alongside the prickly stick insect and the Unarmed stick insect, C. hookeri is one of three stick insect species to have become naturalised in Great Britain, with all three having originated in New Zealand.

Scientific name

Clitarchus hookeri

Family

Phasmatidae