31. If one is discerning enough, the stick insect and leaf mantis may be found well-camouflaged among the vegetation. 32. In Australia many kinds of stick insects are kept as pets including the Strong, Goliath, Spiny and Children's. 33. It is found throughout New Zealand, although it is less frequently reported than " common " stick insect species. 34. It contains the only known wild population of the Lord Howe Island stick insect , formerly thought to be extinct. 35. This stick insect is restricted to the Poor Knights Islands, some 22 kilometres from the eastern coast of Aorangi. 36. Stick insects are often kept in captivity : almost 300 species have been reared in laboratories or as pets.37. Surprisingly, two species previously considered extinct have been rediscovered, the Lord Howe Island stick insect and the Bavarian pine vole. 38. The best known of the stick insects is the Indian or laboratory stick insect ( " Carausius morosus " ). 39. The cockroach and the stick insect are the two most commonly used insect species; both have been neurophysiologically extensively studied. 40. It was described as new species of stick insect in 2014 in the journal " European Journal of Taxonomy ".
