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species Anisomorpha buprestoides (Houttuyn, 1813)

• Common name(s):  Two-Striped Walkingstick; Florida Stick Insect
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• Distribution:
  •  United States: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (102):
  • Houttuyn. 1813. In Stoll. Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschryvingen der spooken, wandelende, bladen, zabelspringhaanen, krekels, treksprinkhaanen en kakkerlakken [Représentation exactement colorée d'après nature des spectres, des mantes, des sauterelles, des grillons, des criquets et des blattes] 1787-1813:68, pl. 23:87 >> Phasma buprestoides    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:9072
  • Gray, G.R. 1835. Synopsis of the species of insects belonging to the family of Phasmidae 19   >> Anisomorpha buprestoides    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:9071
  • Burmeister. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie 2:570   >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Westwood. 1859. Catalogue of the orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. 17   >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Caudell. 1903. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 26:880   >> Note: redescription >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1903. Ent. News 14:331   >> Note: in Texas >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:401   >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Redtenbacher. 1906. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden 1:91   >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1907. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 59:284   >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1910. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 62:6   >> Note: in Bermuda >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Russell. 1912. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 14:117   >> Note: tachinid parasite (Phasmophaga meridionalis) >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Davis. 1914. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 22:191   >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1914. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 22:101   >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • McAtee. 1918. Ent. News 29:388   >> Note: defensive spray >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Blatchley. 1920. Orthoptera of Northeastern America: with especial reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida 145   >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Stewart. 1937. Canadian Entomologist 69:84 >> Note: injury to human eye >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Cantrall. 1941. Compendium of entomological methods. Part II. Notes on collecting and preserving Orthoptera 2, fig >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Littig. 1942. Florida Entomologist 25(3):33   >> Note: external anatomy >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Albert, R.O. 1947. Ent. News 58:57 >> Note: injury to human eye >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Hetrick. 1949. Florida Entomologist 32(2):74   >> Note: colour variation >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Hetrick. 1949. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 51(3):103 >> Note: Oviposition >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Neff & Eisner. 1960. Bull. Brooklyn Entomol. Soc. 55:101 >> Note: parasites >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Meinwald, Chadha, Hurst & Eisner. 1962. Tetrahedron Letters 1:29 >> Note: Defensive secretion >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Eisner. 1965. Science 148:966 >> Note: defensive spray >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Happ, G.M., Strandberg & C.M. Happ. 1966. International Journal of Insect Morphology and Embryology 143 >> Note: cell morphology and chemistry >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Crotch & et al. 1970. Rearing Stick Insects 16, fig >> Note: Rearing >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Sellick. 1974. Stick and Leaf Insects 30 >> Note: rearing >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Sellick. 1975. AES Exotic Entomology Group 1975(3):1 >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Brock. 1975. TIEG 10(1):28 >> Note: Rearing >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Sellick. 1976. Systematic Entomology 1:97   >> Note: description egg >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Brock. 1977. TIEG 11(1):37 >> Note: Rearing >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Bedford. 1978. Annual Review of Entomology 23:126   >> Note: Oviposition and review of literature >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • James, T. 1980. PSG Newsletter 3:5 >> Note: rearing; egg >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Sellick. 1980. University of London, Unpublished thesis 185, fig. 114c   >> Note: Egg [unpublished thesis] >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Kevan. 1980. Mem. Lyman ent. Mus. Res. Lab. No. 8:3 >> Note: Mislabelled specimen from Bermuda? >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Hinton. 1981. Biology of insect eggs 2 533   >> Note: buries eggs >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Vanschuytbroeck & Cools. 1981. Bull. Inst. r. Sci. nat. Belg. 53(23):25   >> Note: in RBINS coll >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Carlberg. 1981. J. Chem. Ecol. 7(5):905 >> Note: Defensive secretion >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Carlberg. 1985. Zool. Anz. 215:177 >> Note: Chemical defense >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Arnett. 1985. American insects: a handbook of the insects of America north of Mexico. First edition. 115 (figs), 116 >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Brock. 1985. The Phasmid Rearer’s Handbook (Stick Insects and Leaf Insects) 5, 22, figs >> Note: Rearing >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Carlberg. 1985. Zool. Jb. Anat. 113:51 >> Note: Postembryonic stages >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Carlberg. 1985. Biol. Zentralbl. 104:529 >> Note: Hatching time and defensive behaviour >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Allred, Stark & Lentz. 1986. Ent. News 97(4):169   >> Note: Egg capsule SEM study >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Carlberg. 1986. Zool. Anz. 216(1/2):6 >> Note: Biology >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Carlberg. 1986. Zool. Anz. 217(1/2):39 >> Note: Thanatosis and autotomy >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Gunning. 1987. Florida Entomologist 70:406   >> Note: Behaviour >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Helfer. 1987. How to know the grasshoppers, crickets, cockroaches and their allies 21, fig. 27 >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Baccetti. 1987[1986]. In Mazzini & Scali [Ed.]. Stick Insects: Phylogeny and reproduction. Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Stick Insects, Siena 117 >> Note: Spermatozoa >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Carlberg. 1987. Z. Versuchstierkd. 29:50 >> Note: Culturing phasmids for experiments >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Carlberg. 1987. Zool. Jb. Syst. 114:47 >> Note: Ovarian structure >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Carlberg. 1987. Zool. Jb. Anat. 115:77 >> Note: Ovary anatomy >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Carlberg. 1987. Zool. Anz. 218(3/4):261 >> Note: Sperm ultrastructure >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Carlberg. 1987. Zool. Anz. 218(5/6):369 >> Note: Chemical defence >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Sellick. 1988. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 93:280   >> Note: In checklist of eggs studied by SEM >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Preston-Mafham, K. 1990. Grasshoppers and mantids of the world 84, 148 >> Note: notes on behaviour >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Bragg. 1990. Journal of the Derbyshire Entomological Society 100:13 >> Note: Behaviour >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Kevan. 1990. Lyman Ent. and Research Lab. 16:23 >> Note: in list of adventive and captive alien orthopteroid insects in Canada >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Nentwig. 1990. Oecologica 82:446   >> Note: As prey of spiders >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Carlberg & Sellick. 1991. PSG Newsletter 49:11, figs >> Note: Rearing >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Dziedzyc. 1992. Journal of the American Vetinary Medicine Association 200:1969 >> Note: injury to dog >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Brock. 1992. Rearing and studying stick and leaf insects. The Amateur Entomologist Volume 22 42, figs   >> Note: Rearing >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Hatch, Lamsens & Perchalski. 1993. Journal of the Florida Medical Association 80:758 >> Note: Chemical secretion >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Preston-Mafham, R. & K. Preston-Mafham. 1993. The encyclopedia of land invertebrate behaviour 294 >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Schulten. 1995. Wandelnde Blätter, Stab- und Gespenstschrecken 3:114, fig.   >> Note: rearing >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Crosby-Clark. 1995. Phasmid Studies 4(1):9   >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Carwardine. 1995. The Guinness Book of Animal Records 234 >> Note: Most dangerous stick insect >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Langlois. 1995. Le Monde des Phasmes 31(Semptember):27   >> Note: Defence >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Otte. 1997. In Poole & Gentili [Ed.]. Nomina Insecta Nearctica. A check list of the insects of North America. Volume 4 Non-holometabolous orders 638   >> Note: in checklist of insects of North America >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Sellick. 1998. Systematic Entomology 23:209   >> Note: Micropylar plate of eggs >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Brock. 1999. Amateur Entomologist 26:25, fig. 13   >> Note: most dangerous phasmid record >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Seiler, C. & et al. 2000. Phasmiden Pflege und Zucht von Gespenstschrecken, Stabschrecken und Wandelnden Blattern im Terrarium 43, figs >> Note: rearing >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Zompro. 2000[1999]. TenDenZen Supplement 1999:62   >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Potvin, W. 2000. Arthropoda 8(3):10, fig >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Paysse, Holder & Coats. 2001. Opthalmology 108:190 >> Note: injury to human eye >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Hoskisson. 2001[2000]. Phasmid Studies 9(1&2):33   >> Note: Stripes >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Conle & Hennemann. 2002. Spixiana Suppl. 28:22   >> Note: references >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Baxter. 2002. Rearing Stick and Leaf Insects 27, figs   >> Note: rearing >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Potvin, W. 2002. Arthropoda 10(3):10, fig >> Note: rearing >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Thomas, M.C. 2003. Fla. Dept. Agri. Ent. Circ. 408:1   >> Note: illustrated summary of what is known about this sp. >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Brock. 2003. Rearing and studying stick and leaf insects. The Amateur Entomologist Volume 22 44, 75, fig. 25   >> Note: rearing >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Conle & Hennemann. 2003. Phasmid Studies 11(2):47   >> Note: Rearing >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Eisner. 2003. For Love of Insects 83-89, figs >> Note: Defensive spray >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Zompro. 2004. Revision of the genera of the Areolatae, including the status of Timema and Agathemera (Insecta, Phasmatodea) 151, figs   >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 47   >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Tozier. 2005. Florida Entomologist 88(1):106   >> Note: Behaviour (aggregation, drumming) before hurricane >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Arment [Ed.]. 2006. Stick Insects of the Continental United States and Canada: species and early studies 15   >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Delfosse. 2006. Le Bulletin d'Arthropoda 2 28:11 >> Note: taxonomy, biology >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Evans. 2007. National Wildlife Federation field guide to insects and spiders of North America 104, fig   >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Dossey, Walse & Edison. 2008. J. Chem. Ecol. 34:584 >> Note: chemical defense >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Conle, Hennemann & Dossey. 2009. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 102(2):210, many figs.   >> Note: colour forms; behaviour >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Buckley, Attanayake & Bradler. 2009[2008]. Proc. R. Soc. B. 276:1058   >> Note: In Phylogenetic tree >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Maginnis, T.L. & Redmond. 2009. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 102(6):1099 >> Note: Leg regeneration studies >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Baker, E. W. 2010. Practical Reptile Keeping 2010:26   >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Harman. 2011. PSG Newsletter 125:8   >> Note: PSG culture stock origin >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Vera, Pastenes, Veloso & Méndez. 2012. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165:66   >> Note: phylogeny >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Shelomi, Sitepu, Boundy-Mills & Kimsey. 2015. Jour. of Orthoptera Res. 24(1):2   >> Note: anatomy >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Marshall, S.A. 2017. Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity: With a Photographic Guide to Insects of Eastern North America. 2nd Edition 70, fig   >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Büscher, Buckley, Grohmann, Gorb & Bradler. 2018. Front. Ecol. Evol. 6:1-11   >> Note: Phylogeny and tarsal morphology >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • O'Hanlon, B.R. Jones & Bulbert. 2020. The Science of Nature 107(34):8   >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 239, 564, fig   >> Note: Species account; checklist of world species >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
  • Luna. 2022. Phasmid Studies 21:94   >> Note: Checklist of North American phasmids >> Anisomorpha buprestoides
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, Southeastern U.S.A., Georgia
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Female
  • Status of type:  lost

• synonym bivittatum (Say, 1828)
• synonym calamus (Burmeister, 1838)
• synonym palmeus (Taylor, 1862)
• synonym vermicularis (Houttuyn, 1813)
• synonym vittata (Jaeger, 1854)

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