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species Metriophasma (Metriophasma) diocles (Westwood, 1859)

• Common name(s):  Blue-tinged Stick-insect
• Images: (16) See all images

  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (25):
  • Westwood. 1859. Catalogue of the orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. 161, pl. 15:1   >> Metriotes diocles    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:8238
  • Stål. 1875. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 32:100   >> Metriotes diocles
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:416   >> Metriotes diocles
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1904. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 56:105   >> Note: designated type species of Metriotes >> Metriotes diocles
  • Redtenbacher. 1906. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden 1:140   >> Metriotes diocles
  • Shelford. 1909. Biologia Centrali-Americana Insecta Orthoptera 2:374   >> Metriotes diocles
  • Hebard. 1919. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 45:157   >> Metriotes diocles
  • Hebard. 1924. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 76:139   >> Metriotes diocles
  • Hebard. 1933. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 59(1):34   >> Metriotes diocles
  • Hebard. 1933. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 59:123   >> Metriotes diocles
  • Robinson, M.H. 1968. Ent. mon. Mag. 104:53, fig. 5 >> Note: startle display >> Metriotes diocles
  • Robinson, M.H. 1969. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society, London 121(7):287, fig. 6 >> Note: defensive behavior >> Metriotes diocles
  • Bedford. 1978. Annual Review of Entomology 23:126   >> Note: Oviposition >> Metriotes diocles
  • Preston-Mafham, R. & K. Preston-Mafham. 1993. The encyclopedia of land invertebrate behaviour 284 >> Metriotes diocles
  • Berger & Wirth. 2004. Biotropica 36(3):424 >> Note: predation >> Metriophasma diocles    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:8239
  • Zompro. 2004. Revision of the genera of the Areolatae, including the status of Timema and Agathemera (Insecta, Phasmatodea) 104, fig.   >> Metriophasma (Metriophasma) diocles
  • Berger. 2004. Ecology of phasmids (phasmatodea) in a moist neotropical forest: a study on life history, host-range and bottom-up versus top-down regulation 18   >> Note: Ecology UNPUBLISHED THESIS >> Metriophasma diocles
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 202   >> Metriophasma (Metriophasma) diocles
  • Simoens & Rabaey. 2009. Phasma 19(72):9, figs. >> Note: rearing, behaviour, egg >> Metriophasma diocles
  • Conle, Hennemann & Gutiérrez. 2011. The Stick Insects of Colombia 43   >> Note: Catalogued, Colombia >> Metriophasma (Metriophasma) diocles
  • Harman. 2013. PSG Newsletter 130:15   >> Note: PSG culture stock origin >> Metriophasma diocles
  • Heleodoro, Mendes & Rafael. 2017. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 61:176, figs >> Note: in Brazil >> Metriophasma (Metriophasma) diocles
  • Simon, Letsch, Bank, Buckley, Donath, S. Liu, Machida, Meusemann, Misof, Podsiadlowski, X. Zhou, Wipfler & Bradler. 2019. Front. Ecol. Evol. 7(345):3, fig. 1C   >> Metriophasma diocles
  • Ramírez-Mora, Calero Meija & Montoya Lerma. 2022. Insectos de la Isla Gorgona 81, fig. >> Metriophasma (Metriophasma) diocles
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 259, 569, fig   >> Note: Species account; checklist of world species >> Metriophasma (Metriophasma) diocles
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Southern America, Western South America, Colombia
  • Kind of type:  syntypes
  • Specimen category:  Male, 3 Females
  • Location of type:  OUMNH Oxford

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