- English Common Name
- Okinawa Walking Stick
- Scientific name
- Entoria okinawaensis
- Taxonomy
- Order: Phasmida, Family: Phasmatidae
- Size
- About 9.2 cm – 13.5 cm
- Species Distribution
- This species is found on Okinawa Island and southward in Nansei Islands, and Yakushima Islands.
- Okinawan Common Name
- So-lawn-ma, Gu-sawn-ma
- This insect can be found through the year, but many are found from summer to autumn. Okinawa walking sticks are capable of facultative parthenogenesis, meaning they can reproduce sexually as well as asexually.
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- Updated November 2018
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