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species Eurycantha insularis Lucas, 1869

• Common name(s):  Oil Palm Stick Insect
• Images: (21) See all images

  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  New Guinea, Solomon Isles
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (20):
  • Lucas. 1869. Ann. Soc. entomol. Fr. (4)9:25   >> Eurycantha insularis    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5673
  • Lucas. 1872. Ann. Soc. entomol. Fr. 5(2):26, pl. 9:1 & 10:1   >> Note: both sexes described as insularis in 1869 now regarded as a synonym of Eurycantha calcarata, the male as a nymph >> Eurycantha calcarata
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:396   >> Eurycantha insularis
  • Redtenbacher. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. III. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). 3:345   >> Note: the female described as calcarata by Lucas 1869, and male 1872, pl. 10 >> Eurycantha insularis
  • Günther. 1929. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum, Berlin 14:621 >> Eurycantha insularis
  • Nakata. 1961. Pacific Insects Monograph 2:116   >> Eurycantha insularis
  • Vanschuytbroeck & Cools. 1981. Bull. Inst. r. Sci. nat. Belg. 53(23):15   >> Note: in RBINS coll >> Eurycantha insularis
  • Herwaarden. 1998. Science in New Guinea 24(2):90   >> Eurycantha insularis
  • Harman. 2000[1999]. Phasmid Studies 8(1&2):16   >> Note: in checklist of Oceania phasmids (update of Nakata 1961) >> Eurycantha insularis
  • Seiler, C. & et al. 2000. Phasmiden Pflege und Zucht von Gespenstschrecken, Stabschrecken und Wandelnden Blattern im Terrarium 67, figs >> Note: rearing >> Eurycantha insularis
  • Brock. 2003. Rearing and studying stick and leaf insects. The Amateur Entomologist Volume 22 59, figs   >> Note: rearing >> Eurycantha insularis
  • Whiting, M.F., Bradler & Maxwell. 2003. Nature 421(6920):265   >> Eurycantha insularis
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 140   >> Eurycantha insularis
  • Trewick, Morgan-Richards & L.J. Collins. 2008. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48(3):806   >> Note: Phylogenetic analysis >> Eurycantha insularis
  • Harman. 2012. PSG Newsletter 128:13 >> Note: Species culture origin >> Eurycantha insularis
  • Kimsey, Dewhurst & Nyaure. 2013. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 30:19 >> Note: egg parasites >> Eurycantha insularis
  • Baker, E. W. 2015. Agric & Food Secur 4(22):14   >> Note: pest status >> Eurycantha insularis
  • Delfosse, Cliquennois, Depraetere & Robillard. 2019. Zoosystema 41(11):207   >> Note: Type data in MNHN, Paris >> Eurycantha insularis
  • Boisseau, Ero, Makai, Bonneau & Emlen. 2020. Behavioural Processes 181(104263):2, figs   >> Eurycantha insularis
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 522   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Eurycantha insularis
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Asia-Tropical, Papuasia, Solomon Is.
  • Kind of type:  syntypes
  • Specimen category:  Male, Female
  • Location of type:  MNHN Paris

• synonym coenosa Redtenbacher, 1908
• synonym coriacea Redtenbacher, 1908

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