phasmid insect

1. Large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants;
   Walking sticks and leaf insects (synset 102233704)
   is a type of: insect - small air-breathing arthropod
   subtypes:

   • stick insect, walking stick, walkingstick - any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies
   • leaf insect, walking leaf - tropical insect having a flattened leaflike body; common in southern Asia and the East Indies
   belongs to: order phasmatodea, order phasmida, phasmatodea, phasmida - in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects
   same as: phasmid

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