Phasmida Species File (Version 5.0/5.0)
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family
Phasmatidae
Leach, 1815
subfamily
Phasmatinae
Leach, 1815
tribe
Acanthoxylini
Bradley & Galil, 1977
genus
Acanthoxyla
Uvarov, 1944
urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5412
Nomenclatural details: Nomen novum (Junior homonym is
Macracantha
)
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Distribution:
New Zealand (all three species alien introductions to south-west England)
Ecology:
Terrestrial.
Citations (33):
Uvarov. 1944. Proc. R. Ent. Soc. Lond. 13:95
>> Note: new name for Macracantha Kirby >>
Acanthoxyla
urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5412
Salmon. 1955. Transactions of the Royal Society, New Zealand 82(5):1149
>> Note: revision of New Zealand species; key to species >>
Acanthoxyla
Salmon. 1955. Transactions of the Royal Society, New Zealand 82(5):1189
>> Note: parthenogenesis >>
Acanthoxyla
Salmon. 1955. Tuatara 5:78
>>
Acanthoxyla
Salmon. 1970. New Zealand Entom. 4(3):70
>>
Acanthoxyla
Bradley, J.C. & Galil. 1977. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 79(2):192
>> Note: Phasmatinae: Acanthoxylini >>
Acanthoxyla
Bedford. 1978. Annual Review of Entomology 23:130
>> Note: Review of literature >>
Acanthoxyla
Sellick. 1979. Systematic Entomology 4:327
>> Note: Key to eggs of genera [figs without reference to species] >>
Acanthoxyla
Grimwade. 1982. AES Exotic Entomology Group 1982:86 >>
Acanthoxyla
Sellick. 1987[1986]. In Mazzini & Scali [Ed.]. Stick Insects: Phylogeny and reproduction. Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Stick Insects, Siena 137, fig >> Note: Micropylar plate >>
Acanthoxyla
Brock. 1991. Stick-insects of Britain, Europe and the Mediterranean. 12 >> Note: key to species >>
Acanthoxyla
Salmon. 1991. The stick insects of New Zealand 57 >> Note: key to subspecies; species regarded as subspecies of prasina >>
Acanthoxyla
Sellick. 1997. Systematic Entomology 22:118
>> Note: Key to eggs of genera [but figs often without reference to species] >>
Acanthoxyla
Brock. 1999. Amateur Entomologist 26:77
>> Note: list of species; rationale for regarding them as distinct >>
Acanthoxyla
Harman. 2000[1999]. Phasmid Studies 8(1&2):17
>> Note: Recorded from New Zealand >>
Acanthoxyla
Bragg. 2001. Phasmids of Borneo 628
>> Note: type species data >>
Acanthoxyla
Jewell & Brock. 2003[2002]. Jour. of Orthoptera Res. 11(2):192
>>
Acanthoxyla
Zompro. 2004. Revision of the genera of the Areolatae, including the status of Timema and Agathemera (Insecta, Phasmatodea) 304
>> Note: type species data >>
Acanthoxyla
Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 38
>>
Acanthoxyla
Trewick & Morgan-Richards. 2005. Reed Children's Books 11
>>
Acanthoxyla
Trewick, Goldberg & Morgan-Richards. 2005. Zoologica Scripta 34(5):484
>>
Acanthoxyla
Morgan-Richards & Trewick. 2005. Molecular Ecology 14:2133
>> Note: hybrid origin? >>
Acanthoxyla
Buckley, Attanayake, D. Park, Ravindran, Jewell & Normark. 2008. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48:335
>> Note: hybridization >>
Acanthoxyla
Hennemann & Conle. 2008. Zootaxa 1906:37
>> Note: in Acanthoxylini >>
Acanthoxyla
Trewick, Morgan-Richards & L.J. Collins. 2008. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48(3):799
>> Note: phylogenetic analysis >>
Acanthoxyla
Yeates, G.W. & Buckley. 2009. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 36(1):35
>> Note: nematodes parasitising >>
Acanthoxyla
Myers, Trewick & Morgan-Richards. 2012. Insect Conservation and Diversity doi: 10.1111/icad.12:1
>> Note: polyploidy in hybrid parthenogenetic lineage >>
Acanthoxyla
Trewick & Morgan-Richards. 2014. NZ Wildlife. Introducing the weird and wonderful character of natural New Zealand 113
>>
Acanthoxyla
Brock & Jewell. 2015. PSG Newsletter 134:13
>> Note: Various synonymy, reducing number of valid species to three: prasina, geisovii & inermis >>
Acanthoxyla
Dennis, A.B., Dunning, B.J. Sinclair & Buckley. 2015. Sci. Rep. 5(13965):3
>> Note: cold adaptation >>
Acanthoxyla
Brock, M. Lee, Morgan-Richards & Trewick. 2018[2017]. Atropos 60:16
>> Note: First ever male of Acanthoxyla; in UK. Diagram showing genetic similarity between Acanthoxyla species >>
Acanthoxyla
Brock. 2021. Britain's Insects: A Field Guide to the Insects of Great Britain and Ireland 120
>>
Acanthoxyla
Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 557
>> Note: Checklist of world species >>
Acanthoxyla
Type species:
Acanthoderus prasinus
Westwood (=
Acanthoxyla prasina
), by original designation
The first family-group name based on this genus is Acanthoxylini Bradley, J.C. & Galil, 1977.
synonym
Acanthoderus
Hutton, 1899
synonym
Macracantha
Kirby, 1904
species
geisovii
(Kaup, 1866)
synonym
fasciatus
(Hutton, 1899)
synonym
huttoni
Salmon, 1955
synonym
suteri
(Hutton, 1899)
species
inermis
Salmon, 1955
species
prasina
(Westwood, 1859)
synonym
atroarticulus
(Colenso, 1885)
synonym
filiformis
(Colenso, 1885)
synonym
intermedia
Salmon, 1955
synonym
speciosa
Salmon, 1955
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