Tisamenus cervicornis

Tisamenus cervicornis is a stick insect species (Phasmatodea), in the family of the Heteropterygidae endemic to the Philippine island Luzon.

On the pronotum there are two strongly compressed, clearly bidentate combs that point obliquely backwards.

The second segment of the abdomen has an anterior and a posterior pair of tubercles on the upper side.

[2] The female holotype and a male syntype are deposited in the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid.

[3] The original name was officially restored in 2004 by Oliver Zompro, who transferred or retransferred all Filipino species previously listed in Hoploclonia to the genus Tisamenus.

In Europe, it was first bred in 2012 by Bruno Kneubühler and, following an initial identification, he named it Tisamenus deplanatus 'Pocdol' and distributed it.

They eat leaves from bramble, or other Rosaceae, as well as from hazel, salal and Prunus laurocerasus.

Eggs: left from dorsal, right from lateral