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title: "Southern Two-striped Walkingstick"
description: "Anisomorpha buprestoides — Owady i pająki. Anisomorpha buprestoides, the southern two-striped walkingstick, devil rider, or musk mare, is a stick insect (order Phasmatodea: otherwise known as \"phasmids\" or walkingsticks) which occurs throughout the southeastern United States."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/southern-two-striped-walkingstick
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Southern Two-striped Walkingstick

> Anisomorpha buprestoides — Owady i pająki. Anisomorpha buprestoides, the southern two-striped walkingstick, devil rider, or musk mare, is a stick insect (order Phasmatodea: otherwise known as "phasmids" or walkingsticks) which occurs throughout the southeastern United States.

- Scientific name: *Anisomorpha buprestoides*
- Category: `insects` (Owady i pająki)
- Habitats: `forest` (Las)
- iNaturalist observations: 11018
- Wikidata: [Q149362](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q149362)
- iNaturalist taxon: [134119](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/134119)

## Names

- en: Southern Two-striped Walkingstick

## Countries with the most observations

US (8135)

## Summary

Anisomorpha buprestoides, the southern two-striped walkingstick, devil rider, or musk mare, is a stick insect (order Phasmatodea: otherwise known as "phasmids" or walkingsticks) which occurs throughout the southeastern United States.
Anisomorpha buprestoides is a large, stout (for a stick insect) brown phasmid with three conspicuous longitudinal black stripes. Females average 67.7 mm (2.67 in) in length; males are smaller and more slender, averaging 41.7 mm (1.64 in).

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisomorpha_buprestoides

## Photo

![Southern Two-striped Walkingstick](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/southern-two-striped-walkingstick/medium.jpg)

Photo: Laurie Brooks · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256129563

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/southern-two-striped-walkingstick?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).