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species Ctenomorpha gargantua Hasenpusch & Brock, 2006

• Common name(s):  Gargantuan Stick-insect
• Images: (15) See all images
• Distribution:
  •  
   Australia: northern Queensland [Red List - Near Threatened]
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (13):
  • Brock. 1999. Amateur Entomologist 26:21, pl. 8   >> Note: as undescribed sp, longest Australian phasmid (fig. of female) >> Ctenomorpha
  • Hasenpusch & Brock. 2006. Zootaxa 1282:9   >> Ctenomorpha gargantua    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5204
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography 1570:73   >> Ctenomorpha gargantua
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2009. The Complete Field Guide to Stick and Leaf Insects of Australia 106, figs., 168   >> Note: female fig. 615mm overall length >> Ctenomorpha gargantua
  • Davies, S. 2012. PSG Newsletter 129:15 >> Note: nymph >> Ctenomorpha gargantua
  • Monteith. 2014. Entomological Society of Queensland News Bulletin 42(2):33, figs. >> Note: capture of live female >> Ctenomorpha gargantua
  • Monteith. 2014. PSG Newsletter 132:24, figs >> Note: capture of live female >> Ctenomorpha gargantua
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2015. In Elias, Harley & Tsoutas [Ed.]. Camouflage cultures: beyond the art of disappearance 48, fig   >> Note: female photo >> Ctenomorpha gargantua
  • Monteith. 2016. Entomological Society of Queensland News Bulletin 44(2):34 >> Note: notes on size of reared specimens >> Ctenomorpha gargantua
  • Fiedel. 2016. PSG Newsletter 136:12 >> Note: rearing; egg >> Ctenomorpha gargantua
  • Brock, J.A. Marshall, Beccaloni & Harman. 2016. Zootaxa 4179(2):171   >> Note: type data >> Ctenomorpha gargantua
  • Rudolf & Brock. 2017. In IUCN. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017 e.T79002185A79002202   >> Note: Red List - Near Threatened >> Ctenomorpha gargantua
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids pl. 23.2 & 28.2, 464, 558, fig   >> Note: Species account; checklist of world species >> Ctenomorpha gargantua
• Scrutiny:
  • Brock, 2017, This is a contender for longest insect in the world [currently Phobaeticus chani]. The female will be formally described when one is preserved. It is being reared in captivity by Hasenpusch and in Melbourne
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Australasia, Australia, Queensland, north; Mourilyan Harbour
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Male
  • Location of type:  QM Brisbane

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