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species Eurycantha horrida Boisduval, 1835

• Common name(s):  Spiny Devil Stick Insect
• Images: (12) See all images

  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  Papua New Guinea
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (36):
  • Boisduval. 1835. Faune entomologique de l´Océan Pacifique, avec l´illustration des Insectes nouveaux, recueillis pendant le voyage de l'Astrolabe 2:647, pl. 10:2   >> Eurycantha horrida    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5680
  • Gray, G.R. 1835. Synopsis of the species of insects belonging to the family of Phasmidae 14   >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Brullé. 1835. In Audouin & Brullé. Histoire naturelle des Insectes, vol 9 pl. 10   >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Burmeister. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie 2:569   >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Audinet-Serville. 1838[1839]. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Orthoptères 279   >> Note: female >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Blanchard. 1840. In Castelnau [Ed.]. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthoptères, Néuroptères, Hémiptères, Hymenoptères, Lépidoptères et Diptères 17   >> Eurycantha horrida
  • de Haan. 1842. In Temminck [Ed.]. Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Nederlansche Overzeesche Bezittingen 3:136, pl. 14:8   >> Phasma (Eurycantha) horridum    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5681
  • Montrouzier. 1855. Annales des la Société d’agriculture de Lyon (2)7:82   >> Karabidion horridum    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5682
  • Westwood. 1859. Catalogue of the orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. 63   >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Tepper. 1903. Transactions of the Royal Society of Southern Australia 26:284   >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:395   >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Redtenbacher. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. III. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). 3:342   >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Aldrich. 1919. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 375, Pl. 3, fig >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Günther. 1929. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum, Berlin 14:621 >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Günther. 1932. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum, Berlin 17:769   >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Gurney. 1947. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 40:392, fig. 7   >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Nakata. 1961. Pacific Insects Monograph 2:116   >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Meyer-Rochow. 1975. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 58(1):17   >> Note: Eaten by New Guinea native tribes >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Sellick. 1980. University of London, Unpublished thesis 113, fig. 62   >> Note: Egg [unpublished thesis] >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Tomey. 1985. Aquarium Den Haag 55:95 >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Viscuso, Longo & Luca. 1986. Arch. Biol. (Bruxelles) 97:417 >> Note: SEM egg study (ex. culture - may refer to calcarata) >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Viscuso & Longo. 1987[1986]. In Mazzini & Scali [Ed.]. Stick Insects: Phylogeny and reproduction. Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Stick Insects, Siena 170 >> Note: Micropylar plate >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Sellick. 1988. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 93:280   >> Note: In checklist of eggs studied by SEM >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Preston-Mafham, K. 1990. Grasshoppers and mantids of the world 146 >> Note: note on behaviour >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Kevan. 1990. Lyman Ent. and Research Lab. 16:26 >> Note: ? this sp; in list of adventive and captive alien orthopteroid insects in Canada >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Crosby-Clark. 1995. Phasmid Studies 4(1):7   >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Herwaarden. 1998. Science in New Guinea 24(2):90   >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Sellick. 1998. Systematic Entomology 23:224   >> Note: Micropylar plate >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Harman. 2000[1999]. Phasmid Studies 8(1&2):16   >> Note: in checklist of Oceania phasmids (update of Nakata 1961) >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 140   >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Buckley, Attanayake & Bradler. 2009[2008]. Proc. R. Soc. B. 276:1056, figs 1e-f   >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Bradler. 2015. Entomologie heute 27:6, fig   >> Note: [misidentification; image shows E. immunis] >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Delfosse, Cliquennois, Depraetere & Robillard. 2019. Zoosystema 41(11):205   >> Note: Type data in MHNH, Paris >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Boisseau, Ero, Makai, Bonneau & Emlen. 2020. Behavioural Processes 181(104263):2, fig   >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 522   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Eurycantha horrida
  • Smith, M. 2022. PSG Newsletter 149:20, figs >> Eurycantha horrida
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Asia-Tropical, Papuasia, New Guinea, Dore
  • Kind of type:  syntypes
  • Specimen category:  2 Males
  • Location of type:  MNHN Paris

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