Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Key's Stick Insect being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Podacanthus viridiroseus
- Podacanthus typhon
- Didymuria violescens
- Tropidoderus gracilifemur
- Tropidoderus childrenii
- Tropidoderus rhodomus
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Phasmida
- Family
- Phasmatidae
- Genus
- Podacanthus
- Species
- Podacanthus keyi
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