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species Parabacillus hesperus Hebard, 1934

• Common name(s):  Western Short-Horned Walkingstick
• Images:

  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  United States: Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Chaparral, often in grass. Foodplants include Eriogonum and Lotus
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (13):
  • Hebard. 1934. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 60:286, pl. 20:5-6   >> Parabacillus hesperus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:8008
  • Otte. 1978. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 130:78   >> Note: type data >> Parabacillus hesperus
  • Powell & Hogue. 1979. California Insects 75, fig >> Parabacillus hesperus
  • Rentz & Weissman. 1981. Univ. Calif. Publs Ent. 94:123 >> Parabacillus hesperus
  • Helfer. 1987. How to know the grasshoppers, crickets, cockroaches and their allies 19, fig. >> Parabacillus hesperus
  • Hogue. 1993. Insects of the Los Angeles Basin. 2nd edition 93, fig >> Parabacillus hesperus
  • 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 >> Parabacillus hesperus
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 244   >> Parabacillus hesperus
  • Arment [Ed.]. 2006. Stick Insects of the Continental United States and Canada: species and early studies 31   >> Parabacillus hesperus
  • Evans. 2007. National Wildlife Federation field guide to insects and spiders of North America 106, fig   >> Parabacillus hesperus
  • Whaley, A. Marshall, C.K. Yoon & Peterson. 2017. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 93(1):22   >> Note: Distribution >> Parabacillus hesperus
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 237, 518, fig   >> Note: Species account; checklist of world species >> Parabacillus hesperus
  • Luna. 2022. Phasmid Studies 21:94   >> Note: Checklist of North American phasmids >> Parabacillus hesperus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, Southwestern U.S.A., Arizona, Pajaritos Mt., south slopes of Atascosa Peak
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Male
  • Location of type:  ANSP Philadelphia

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