Length - 56 centimeters: which insect is the largest in the world
There are not only small and barely noticeable insects that can easily fit into a matchbox.
There are also some very large representatives of the class.
First of all, we are talking about the species Phobaeticus chani , which belongs to the stick insect family.
The length of this creature can reach... almost 57 centimeters.
What is known about the longest insect
The body length of Phobaeticus chani is 35.7 centimeters.
But if the insect stretches its limbs, the figure will increase to 56.7 centimeters.
The largest specimen of the above-mentioned species was found in 1989 in one of the forests of Malaysia.
Almost 20 years later, the unusual insect was handed over to the staff of the Natural History Museum in Great Britain.
It is worth emphasizing that only three representatives of the species Phobaeticus chani have been discovered in the world.
Scientists still have not received complete information about this insect. Thus, the lifestyle of this species of stick insects is almost not studied.
