Conlephasma enigma is a wingless, ground-dwelling species of stick insect in the monotypic genus Conlephasma, and is found on Mount Halcon, on the Philippine island of Mindoro.[1]
The species is brightly coloured, with males having a dark bluish-green head and legs, and a bright orange body with bluish-black triangle-shaped spots on the back.[1] Females are less brightly coloured.[1] It sprays a foul-smelling liquid, from glands behind its head, to repel predators.[1]
The species was identified when entomologist Oskar Conle showed Marco Gottardo and Philipp Heller specimens which had been collected some years earlier.[1] They identified it as new to science and allocated it to a new genus[1] in a paper published in Comptes Rendus Biologies.[2]