PHASMID INJURY TO THE HUMAN EYE
- 1 April 1937
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist
- Vol. 69 (4) , 84-86
- https://doi.org/10.4039/ent6984-4
Abstract
It has long been known that some of the Phasmidae discharge a fetid fluid from certain glands. King (1867) published a note on his observations of a phasmid in Jamaica, identified as Anisomorpha buprestoides (Stoll) but which Bates believed to be a true Phasma, in which he stated that the prothorax contains two glands, secreting a fetid fluid which is discharged through two elevated pores and serves as a defensive agent. This author further stated that these nocturnal, or crepuscular, and gregarious insects are almost always found in the adult stage in copulation.Keywords
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- The Phasmidae, or walking sticks, of the United StatesProceedings of the United States National Museum, 1903