Phasmida11 species

Family Timematidae

Timematidae is a family in the order Phasmida. Browse 11 named species recorded in this family, or open an individual profile for its available identification and natural-history information.

Species in Timematidae (11)

Timema boharti

Identification: The distinctive male terminalia are illustrated in Fig. 1 here . The female terminalia have the apex of the last (10th) tergite shallowly-notched (or "emarginate"), as emphasized in the keys in both Vickery (1993) and the earlier pap

Timema californicum

Identification: A depiction of the male terminalia appears as Fig. 6 in the plate here .

Timema cristinae

Identification: This species comes in a number of color morphs, and also striped or unstriped patterns. Male terminalia are similar to that of T. californicum , except the sinistral cercus is abruptly widened near its base in T. cristinae . This is p

Timema genevievae

Identification: Light to dark gray (sometimes nearly blackish ) with a mottled pattern. Terminal (10th) tergite slightly emarginate. Eyes are more "produced" (i.e. bulging outwards) than in most other Timema species. All individuals are female (it's

Timema knulli

Identification: similar in color to the sexual T. poppense and its asexual relative T. douglasi but differs in host plants, size, and male terminalia. T. knulli is restricted to Santa Lucia range in Monterey Co.; T. poppense and T. douglasi are more

Timema podura

The original description of T. podura , with depictions of the male and female terminalia appear in Strohecker (1936) .

Timema poppense

Identification: Both males and females are a luminous green with three narrow, darker-green (longitudinal) stripes along the dorsum of the abdomen (one medial, and another on each side). Confident ID should be strongly supported by a good match with

Timema ritense

Identification: Male with terminalia in dorsal view as in Fig. 2 here from Tinkham(1942) . Strongly mottled with reddish-brown; legs and cerci also mottled; underside pale with reddish-brown mottling as on dorsum but with paired indistinct lateral li