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species Metriophasma (Acanthometriotes) myrsilus (Westwood, 1859)

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  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  Colombia, Ecuador
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (12):
  • Westwood. 1859. Catalogue of the orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. 160, pl. 15:6   >> Metriotes myrsilus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:8261
  • Stål. 1875. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 32:100   >> Metriotes myrsilus
  • Giglio-Tos. 1898. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della Royal Università di Torino 13(311):34   >> Metriotes myrsilus
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:416   >> Metriotes myrsilus
  • Redtenbacher. 1906. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden 1:139   >> Note: male >> Metriotes myrsilus
  • Giglio-Tos. 1910. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della Royal Università di Torino 25(625):12   >> Metriotes myrsilus
  • Passerin d´Entreves. 1981. Cataloghi. IV - Collezione Ortotterologiche del Museo di Zoologia de´ll Università di Torino 55   >> Metriotes myrsilus
  • Zompro. 2004. Revision of the genera of the Areolatae, including the status of Timema and Agathemera (Insecta, Phasmatodea) 104   >> Metriophasma (Metriophasma) myrsilus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:8262
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 202   >> Metriophasma (Metriophasma) myrsilus
  • Conle, Hennemann & Gutiérrez. 2011. The Stick Insects of Colombia 43   >> Note: Catalogued, Colombia >> Metriophasma (Acanthometriotes) myrsilus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:8260
  • Gutiérrez & Bacca. 2014. Bol. Cient. Mus. Hist. Nat. U. de Caldas 18(1):124, figs 8-9   >> Note: in Ñambí River Nature Reserve >> Metriophasma (Acanthometriotes) myrsilus
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 569   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Metriophasma (Acanthometriotes) myrsilus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Southern America, Western South America, Colombia
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Female
  • Location of type:  OUMNH Oxford

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