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species Acrophylla caprella (Westwood, 1859)

• Common name(s):  Lobe-legged Stick-insect
• Images: (7) See all images

  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  Australia: Queensland
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (10):
  • Westwood. 1859. Catalogue of the orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. 76, pl. 21:3   >> Phibalosoma caprella    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5332
  • Rainbow. 1897. Records of the Australian Museum, Sydney 3:39   >> Phibalosoma caprella
  • Tepper. 1903. Transactions of the Royal Society of Southern Australia 26:279   >> Phibalosoma caprella
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:389   >> Ctenomorpha caprella    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5333
  • Vickery. 1983. CSIRO Australian division of Entomology, Technical Paper No 20 5   >> Ctenomorpha caprella
  • Balderson, Rentz & Roach. 1998. In Houston & A. Wells [Ed.]. Zoological Catalog of Australia. Vol. 23. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera 364 >> Ctenomorpha caprella
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 112   >> Ctenomorpha caprella
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography 1570:72   >> Acrophylla caprella    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5331
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2009. The Complete Field Guide to Stick and Leaf Insects of Australia 90, figs., 164   >> Acrophylla caprella
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 557   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Acrophylla caprella
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Australasia, Australia
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Male
  • Location of type:  OUMNH Oxford

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