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species Metriophasma (Metriophasma) baculus (De Geer, 1773)

• Common name(s):  Surinam Spiny Stick-insect
• Images:

  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  Suriname, French Guiana
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (9):
  • De Geer. 1773. Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire des Insectes 3:405, pl. 36:2-3 >> Mantis baculus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:8241
  • Stål. 1875. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 32:101   >> Metriotes baculus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:8242
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:416   >> Metriotes baculus
  • Redtenbacher. 1906. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden 1:141   >> Metriotes baculus
  • Sjöstedt. 1933. Arkiv för Zoologi 25A(16):2 >> Note: type data >> Metriotes baculus
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 202   >> Metriophasma (Metriophasma) baculus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:8240
  • Jourdan, Lelong & Bellanger. 2014. Bull. Soc. entomol. Fr. 119(4):494   >> Note: in Saül, French Guiana >> Metriophasma baculus
  • Conle, Hennemann, Bellanger, Lelong, Jourdan & Valero. 2020. Zootaxa 4814(1):127   >> Note: in checklist from French Guiana >> Metriophasma (Metriophasma) baculus
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 271, 569, fig   >> Note: Species account; checklist of world species >> Metriophasma (Metriophasma) baculus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Southern America, Northern South America, Surinam
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Female
  • Status of type:  lost
  • Location of type:  NHRS Stockholm

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