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species Hyrtacus caurus (Tepper, 1905)

• Common name(s):  Tepper's Plain Stick-insect
• Images: (14) See all images

  specimen

  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  Australia: Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (8):
  • Tepper. 1905. Transactions of the Royal Society of Southern Australia 29:239   >> Lonchodes caurus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:6698
  • Vickery. 1983. CSIRO Australian division of Entomology, Technical Paper No 20 8   >> Lonchodes caurus
  • Balderson, Rentz & Roach. 1998. In Houston & A. Wells [Ed.]. Zoological Catalog of Australia. Vol. 23. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera 371 >> Lonchodes caurus
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 179   >> Lonchodes caurus
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography 1570:70   >> Hyrtacus caurus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:6697
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2009. The Complete Field Guide to Stick and Leaf Insects of Australia 87, figs., 161   >> Note: egg >> Hyrtacus caurus
  • Rudolf & Brock. 2017. In IUCN. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017 e.T78790599A78792092   >> Note: Red List - Least Concern >> Hyrtacus caurus
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 525   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Hyrtacus caurus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Australasia, Australia, South Australia, northwest
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Female
  • Location of type:  SAM Adelaide

• synonym cunctatrix (Sjöstedt, 1918)
• synonym nigrogranulosus Sjöstedt, 1918
• synonym peristhenellus (Tepper, 1905)

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