Conlephasma

Conlephasma enigma is a wingless, ground-dwelling species of stick insect in the monotypic genus Conlephasma, and is found on Mount Halcon, on the Philippine island of Mindoro.^[1]

Conlephasma enigma
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Phasmatodea
Family:	Lonchodidae
Genus:	Conlephasma Gottardo & Heller, 2012
Species:	C. enigma
Binomial name
Conlephasma enigma Gottardo & Heller, 2012

The species is brightly coloured, with males having a dark bluish-green head and legs, and a bright orange body with bluish-black triangle-shaped spots on the back.^[1] Females are less brightly coloured.^[1] It sprays a foul-smelling liquid, from glands behind its head, to repel predators.^[1]

The species was identified when entomologist Oskar Conle showed Marco Gottardo and Philipp Heller specimens which had been collected some years earlier.^[1] They identified it as new to science and allocated it to a new genus^[1] in a paper published in Comptes Rendus Biologies.^[2]