Timema douglasi

{{Short description|Species of stick insect}}

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| image = Timema_douglasi.jpg

| genus = Timema

| species = douglasi

| authority = Sandoval and Vickery, 1996

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Timema douglasi is a stick insect native to northern California and southern Oregon, United States. It was first described in 1996 as a specialist feeder on old-growth Douglas fir.{{cite journal|last=Sandoval|first=Cristina P.|author2=Vernon R. Vickery|title=Timema douglasi (Phasmatoptera: Timematodea), a new parthenogenetic species from southeastern Oregon and northern California, with notes on other species.|journal=The Canadian Entomologist|year=1996|volume=128|pages=79–84|url=http://pubs.esc-sec.ca/doi/abs/10.4039/Ent12879-1|accessdate=19 July 2011|doi=10.4039/Ent12879-1|url-access=subscription}}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }} It is one of five parthenogenetic species in the genus Timema.{{cite journal|last=Schwander|first=Tanja|author2=Lee Henry |author3=Bernard J Crespi |title=Molecular evidence for ancient asexuality in timema stick insects.|journal=Current Biology|year=2011|volume=21|issue=13|pages=1129–34|pmid=21683598|doi=10.1016/j.cub.2011.05.026|hdl=11370/8c189a5e-f36b-4199-934c-53347c0e2131|hdl-access=free}}

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Category:Phasmatodea

Category:Insects described in 1996

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