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species Acrophylla wuelfingi (Redtenbacher, 1908)

• Common name(s):  Wülfing's Stick-insect
• Images: (10) See all images

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• Distribution:
  •  Australia: northern Queensland
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (49):
  • Redtenbacher. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. III. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). 3:464   >> Vetilia wuelfingi    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5335
  • Weidner. 1966. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburger Zoologischen Museum und Institut 63:232   >> Note: type data >> Vetilia wuelfingi
  • Crotch & et al. 1970. Rearing Stick Insects 16 >> Note: Rearing; misidentified as Acrophylla titan
  • Sellick. 1974. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 54(3):253 >> Note: first description of male >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Sellick. 1974. Stick and Leaf Insects 40, figs >> Note: rearing, common name 'The Queensland Titan' [changed by Brock due to confusion i.e. originally misidentified as Acrophylla titan for several years] >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Hopkinson. 1974. Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society 33:32, fig   >> Note: Rearing; misidentified as Acrophylla titan
  • Sellick. 1975. AES Exotic Entomology Group 1975(3):1 >> Note: culture stock was misidentified Acrophylla titan >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Sellick. 1976. Systematic Entomology 1:97   >> Note: egg >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Bedford. 1978. Annual Review of Entomology 23:134   >> Note: Review of literature >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Sellick. 1980. University of London, Unpublished thesis 118, fig. 64   >> Note: Egg [unpublished thesis] >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • James, T. 1981. PSG Newsletter 6:5, figs >> Note: rearing >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Vickery. 1983. CSIRO Australian division of Entomology, Technical Paper No 20 11   >> Vetilia wuelfingi
  • Brock. 1985. The Phasmid Rearer’s Handbook (Stick Insects and Leaf Insects) 5, 23, figs >> Note: Rearing >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Marescalchi, Masetti & Scali. 1986. J. Aust. ent. Soc. 25:223   >> Note: Karyotype >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Scali & Mazzini. 1987[1986]. In Mazzini & Scali [Ed.]. Stick Insects: Phylogeny and reproduction. Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Stick Insects, Siena 163 >> Note: Ootaxonomy >> Vetilia wuelfingi
  • Sellick. 1988. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 93:280   >> Note: In checklist of eggs studied by SEM >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Kevan. 1990. Lyman Ent. and Research Lab. 16:26 >> Note: in list of adventive and captive alien orthopteroid insects in Canada >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Sellick & Wadham. 1991. PSG Newsletter 14:18, figs >> Note: Rearing >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Stone. 1992. 158 >> Note: Rearing >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Brock. 1992. Rearing and studying stick and leaf insects. The Amateur Entomologist Volume 22 34, figs   >> Note: Rearing >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Hennemann, Gehler & Conle. 1995. Entomol. Z. 105(16):437   >> Note: type data Stuttgart >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Schulten. 1995. Wandelnde Blätter, Stab- und Gespenstschrecken 3:84, figs.   >> Note: rearing >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Seow-Choen. 1996. Insect & Invertebrate World International 1(6):24, fig. >> Note: reproductive behaviour >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Seow-Choen, Seow-En & Seow-An. 1996. Nature Malaysiana 21(2):46, fig.   >> Note: notes on flash display >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Alderton. 1997. Your first stick insect 14 >> Note: Rearing >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Balderson, Rentz & Roach. 1998. In Houston & A. Wells [Ed.]. Zoological Catalog of Australia. Vol. 23. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera 361 >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Brock. 1998. Catalogue of type-specimens of Stick- and Leaf-Insects in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (Insecta: Phasmida). Kataloge der wissenschaftlichen Sammlungen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 13(5):66   >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Guyot. 1998. Insectes 111:15 >> Note: rearing >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Sellick. 1998. Systematic Entomology 23:224   >> Note: Micropylar plate >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Brock. 1999. Amateur Entomologist 26:122   >> Note: notes >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Lipinski, Greven, Schulten & Löser. 1999. Die Struktur der Eihüllen von 48 Phasmatodea-Arten aus der Sammlung des Löbbecke Museum und Aquazoo Düsseldorf 82, figs.   >> Note: egg structure >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Hangay & German. 2000. Insects of Australia. Nature Guides 54, fig >> Note: [Brock -- a misidentification, the image and text refers to Ctenomorphodes austrotessulata] >> Ctenomorphodes wuelfingi
  • Zompro. 2002. Mitteilungen des Hamburger Zoologischen Museums und Instituts 99:199   >> Note: type data, Hamburg >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Baxter. 2002. Rearing Stick and Leaf Insects 5, 26, figs   >> Note: rearing, figure of egg >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Alderton. 2002. How to Care for your Stick Insect 14 >> Note: Rearing >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Hennemann & Conle. 2003. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A (Biologie) 651:6   >> Note: type data, Stuttgart >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Brock. 2003. Rearing and studying stick and leaf insects. The Amateur Entomologist Volume 22 27, fig. 17   >> Note: rearing >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 41   >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Zompro. 2005. Arthropoda 13(4):9   >> Note: [sic]; type data, Stuttgart >> Acrophylla wuelfingii
  • Brock. 2007. Butterfly & Other Invertebrates Club Inc. Newsletter 45:12, fig. 2 >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography 1570:72   >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2009. The Complete Field Guide to Stick and Leaf Insects of Australia 95, figs., 164   >> Note: also several other figures, notes on various pages with ref. to miniature form; pest status >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Buckley, Attanayake & Bradler. 2009[2008]. Proc. R. Soc. B. 276:1058   >> Note: In Phylogenetic tree >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Harman. 2011. PSG Newsletter 125:8   >> Note: PSG culture stock origin >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Velonà, Brock, Hasenpusch & B. Mantovani. 2015. Zootaxa 3957(4):458   >> Note: DNA barcoding >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Ripper. 2016. PSG Newsletter 137:17, fig. >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Rudolf & Brock. 2017. In IUCN. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017 e.T78791487A78792132   >> Note: Red List - Least Concern >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Conle & Hennemann. 2018. Polish Journal of Entomology 76:103   >> Note: Differences vs Acrophylla bhaskarai >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 452, 557, figs   >> Note: Species account; checklist of world species >> Acrophylla wuelfingi
• Type specimen information:
  • There are multiple primary types, see specimen data for details.

• synonym ligula (Redtenbacher, 1908)

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