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species Anophelepis telesphorus Westwood, 1859

• Common name(s):  Short-winged Stick-insect
• Images: (11) See all images

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  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  Western Australia
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (14):
  • Westwood. 1859. Catalogue of the orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. 69, pl. 8:3,7   >> Anophelepis telesphorus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5468
  • Rainbow. 1897. Records of the Australian Museum, Sydney 3:39   >> Anophelepis telesphorus
  • Tepper. 1903. Transactions of the Royal Society of Southern Australia 26:284   >> Note: in catalogue of species >> Anophelepis telephorus subsequent misspelling    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5471
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:382   >> Anophelepis telesphorus
  • Redtenbacher. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. III. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). 3:375   >> Ernodes telesphorus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5469
  • Craddock. 1972. Australian J. Zool. 20:448   >> Note: chromosomes >> Carnacia telesphorus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5470
  • Vickery. 1983. CSIRO Australian division of Entomology, Technical Paper No 20 4   >> Anophelepis telesphorus
  • Balderson, Rentz & Roach. 1998. In Houston & A. Wells [Ed.]. Zoological Catalog of Australia. Vol. 23. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera 362 >> Anophelepis telesphorus
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 48   >> Anophelepis telesphorus
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography 1570:74   >> Anophelepis telesphorus
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2009. The Complete Field Guide to Stick and Leaf Insects of Australia 99, figs.   >> Note: egg >> Anophelepis telesphorus
  • Brock, J.A. Marshall, Beccaloni & Harman. 2016. Zootaxa 4179(2):198   >> Note: type data >> Anophelepis telesphorus
  • Rudolf & Brock. 2017. In IUCN. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017 e.T78798677A78798757   >> Note: Red List - Least Concern www.iucnredlist.org/details/78798677/0 >> Anophelepis telesphorus
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 557   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Anophelepis telesphorus
• Scrutiny:
  • Brock, 2009, male to be designated lectotype
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Australasia, Australia, Western Australia, Swan River
  • Kind of type:  syntypes
  • Specimen category:  Male, Female
  • Location of type:  NHMUK London NH Mus.

• synonym obscura (Sjöstedt, 1918)
• synonym telephorus Tepper, 1903

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