Aretaon asperrimus | Thorny Stick Insect
 
PSG 118
 
Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Family: Heteropterygidae
Subfamily: Obriminae
Genus: Aretaon
Species: asperrimus
 
Food - Aretaon asperrimus Thorny Stick Insect will eat the leaves of bramble, raspberry, wild rose, oak, beech, hazel
 
Description - The females of Aretaon asperrimus thorny stick insect are larger than the males A mature females body length is around 7cm and dark brown in colouration while a mature male is around 5cm is also dark brown in appearance with a light yellowish strip down the centre of the back.
 
Breeding - All you need is 1 mature male and 1 female of Aretaon asperrimus the thorny stick Insect to breed.
 
How We Keep Them - We keep our Aretaon asperrimus thorny stick insects in tall glass enclosures with plenty of ventilation a damp leaf litter base, mist well every 1-2 days.
 
Where stated, we will supply the quoted sexed animals, on the smaller animals we will post them unsexed.
We will do our best so sex the animals if requested however, we never can guarantee the accuracy.