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species Haplopus micropterus (Peletier de Saint Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, 1828)

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• Distribution:
  •  Mona Island, Puerto Rico, Virgin Is. (various, including St. Croix, Tortola), Hispaniola [Dominican Republic]
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (15):
  • Peletier de Saint Fargeau & Audinet-Serville. 1828. In Latreille, Peletier de Saint Fargeau, Audinet-Serville & Guérin-Méneville [Ed.]. Encyclopédie Méthodique, ou par ordre de matières par un société de gens de lettres, de savans et d´artistes. Histoire Naturelle 10:445   >> Cyphocrana microptera    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5786
  • Audinet-Serville. 1831. Annales des Sciences naturelles, Zool. Paris 22:61   >> Cyphocrana microptera
  • Gray, G.R. 1835. Synopsis of the species of insects belonging to the family of Phasmidae 34   >> Aplopus micropterus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5787
  • de Haan. 1842. In Temminck [Ed.]. Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Nederlansche Overzeesche Bezittingen 3:128   >> Phasma (Haplopus) micropterum    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5788
  • Westwood. 1859. Catalogue of the orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. 87   >> Note: redescription of female >> Haplopus micropterus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5785
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:363   >> Note: from St. Thomas, West Indies >> Haplopus micropterus
  • Redtenbacher. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. III. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). 3:431   >> Haplopus micropterus
  • Wolcott. 1948. The insects of Puerto Rico 33:50   >> Note: notes >> Aplopus micropterus
  • Moxey. 1972. Harvard University [unpublished thesis] 107 >> Note: new combination [invalid - unpublished thesis] >> Diapherodes micropterus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:496687
  • Zompro. 2000[1999]. TenDenZen Supplement 1999:64   >> Aplopus micropterus
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 152   >> Haplopus micropterus
  • Harman. 2012. PSG Newsletter 127:12 >> Note: PSG culture stock origin >> Haplopus micropterus
  • Hennemann, Conle & Perez-Gelabert. 2016. Zootaxa 4128(1):29   >> Note: egg >> Haplopus micropterus
  • Lu, Brock, Ivie & O'Reilly. 2018. Phasmid Studies 19:43   >> Note: Distribution range extended >> Haplopus micropterus
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 547   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Haplopus micropterus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Southern America, Caribbean, Leeward Is., Virgin Is., listed as Amboina [in error], probably West Indies. Type believed to be from St Thomas, US Virgin Islands -- see angulata
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Female
  • Status of type:  lost
  • Location of type:  RMNH Leiden

• synonym angulata (Houttuyn, 1813)
• synonym angulata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805)
• synonym bituberculatus (de Haan, 1842)
• synonym cytherea Westwood, 1859
• synonym ligia Westwood, 1859
• synonym ligiolus Redtenbacher, 1908
• synonym obtusus Redtenbacher, 1908
• synonym spinipes (Gray, 1835)

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