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species Phalces brevis (Burmeister, 1838)

• Common name(s):  Cape Stick-insect
• Images: (17) See all images

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• Distribution:
  •  South Africa, mainly Western Cape
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (10):
  • Burmeister. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie 2:562   >> Bacillus brevis    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:7765
  • Burmeister. 1840. Germar’s Zeitschrift für die Entomologie 2:39   >> Bacillus brevis
  • Westwood. 1859. Catalogue of the orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. 4   >> Bacillus brevis
  • Brock. 2001. PSG Newsletter 85:6 >> Phalces brevis    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:7764
  • Brock. 2003. Rearing and studying stick and leaf insects. The Amateur Entomologist Volume 22 68, pl. 6b   >> Note: rearing >> Phalces brevis
  • Picker, Griffiths & Weaving. 2004. Field Guide to Insects of South Africa 110, fig.   >> Phalces brevis
  • Zompro. 2004. Revision of the genera of the Areolatae, including the status of Timema and Agathemera (Insecta, Phasmatodea) 264, figs.   >> Phalces brevis
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 261   >> Phalces brevis
  • Zompro. 2005. D. ent. Zs 52(2):256   >> Note: type data >> Phalces brevis
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 292, 506, figs   >> Note: Species account; checklist of world species >> Phalces brevis
• Scrutiny:
  • Brock, 2007, This species can be variable in colour / body form, Zompro is presumably confused by spp. from Knysna area, which feed on different plants and occasionally are stouter in females with a short operculum; males differ in colour, photos to be posted
• Type specimen information:
  • There are multiple primary types, see specimen data for details.

• synonym coccyx (Westwood, 1859)
• synonym longiscaphes Schoeman, 1985
• synonym longiscaphus (de Haan, 1842)

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