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genus Diapherodes Gray, 1835

• Distribution:
  •  
   West Indies
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (23):
  • Gray, G.R. 1835. Synopsis of the species of insects belonging to the family of Phasmidae 33   >> Diapherodes    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5835
  • Burmeister. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie 2:573   >> Diapherodes
  • Westwood. 1859. Catalogue of the orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. 84   >> Diapherodes
  • Saussure. 1872[1870-1872]. In Edwards, D.S. Etudes sur les insectes orthoptères. Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l’Amérique Centrale. Recherches zoologiques 6(1):163   >> Diapherodes
  • Stål. 1875. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 2(17):15   >> Diapherodes
  • Stål. 1875. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 32:30   >> Diapherodes
  • Stål. 1875. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 3(14):11   >> Diapherodes
  • Kirby, W.F. 1890. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society 6:571   >> Note: References pre-1840 >> Diapherodes
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:362   >> Note: Palophinae; type species designation (as gigantea; whilst Gray referred to gigas, he listed gigantea Gmelin as a synonym of gigas) >> Diapherodes
  • Redtenbacher. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. III. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). 3:434   >> Diapherodes
  • Ragge. 1955. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society, London 106(9):377   >> Note: Wing-venation >> Diapherodes
  • Moxey. 1972. Harvard University [unpublished thesis] 85 >> Diapherodes
  • Bradley, J.C. & Galil. 1977. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 79(2):188   >> Note: Cladomorphinae: Hesperophasmatini; Notes on type species >> Diapherodes
  • Sellick. 1979. Systematic Entomology 4:327   >> Note: Key to eggs of genera [figs without reference to species] >> Diapherodes
  • Sellick. 1997. Systematic Entomology 22:118   >> Note: Key to eggs of genera [but figs often without reference to species] >> Diapherodes
  • Brock. 1998. Steenstrupia 24(1):33 >> Diapherodes
  • Bragg. 2001. Phasmids of Borneo 632   >> Note: type species data >> Diapherodes
  • Lelong, Rastel, Langlois & Dorel. 2003. Phasmatodea of Dominica 48, figs.   >> Note: sp. from Dominica >> Diapherodes
  • Zompro. 2004. Revision of the genera of the Areolatae, including the status of Timema and Agathemera (Insecta, Phasmatodea) 309   >> Note: type species data, as Mantis gigas >> Diapherodes
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 120   >> Diapherodes
  • Hennemann, Conle & Perez-Gelabert. 2016. Zootaxa 4128(1):36, 59   >> Note: Considered groups: Gigantea-group & Jamaicensis-group >> Diapherodes
  • Bellanger, Jourdan, Lelong & Penet. 2021. Bull. Soc. entomol. Fr. 126(1):79 >> Note: in Jamaica >> Diapherodes
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 547   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Diapherodes
• Type species:  Mantis gigantea Gmelin (= Diapherodes gigantea gigantea), by subsequent designation; authority:  Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:1-501
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• species achalus (Rehn, 1904)
• synonym longiscapha Redtenbacher, 1908
• species angulata (Fabricius, 1793)
• synonym grayi (Kaup, 1871)
• species dominicae Rehn & Hebard, 1938
• species gigantea (Gmelin, 1789)
• subspecies gigantea (Gmelin, 1789)
• subspecies saintluciae Hennemann, Conle & Perez-Gelabert, 2016
• species hennemanni Bellanger, Jourdan, Lelong & Penet, 2021
• species jamaicensis (Drury, 1773)
• synonym 2-spinosa (Fabricius, 1775)
• synonym bispinosus (Fabricius, 1775)
• synonym christopheri Westwood, 1859
• synonym glabricollis Gray, 1835
• synonym murinus (Redtenbacher, 1908)
• synonym pulverulentus Gray, 1835
• species laevicollis Redtenbacher, 1908
• species martinicensis Lelong & Langlois, 2005

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