California Timema

Timema californicum · Order: Phasmida · Family: Timematidae

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California Timema
Photo: Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY

The California Timema lives in North America. Its habitat is also reported from North America. Its native range is listed as North America.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

It is found in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It occurs in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Its native range includes North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 1 of 51 states and DC. Most records: California.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America; native in United States. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

California Timema photo 3
Photo: Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY
California Timema photo 4
Photo: Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY
California Timema photo 5
Photo: Cricket Raspet, CC BY
California Timema photo 6
Photo: Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timema_californicum

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-23.

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