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species Achrioptera punctipes (Audinet-Serville, 1838)

• Common name(s):  Madagascan Spiny Stick-insect
• Images: (8) See all images

  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  Madagascar, Africa
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (17):
  • Audinet-Serville. 1838[1839]. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Orthoptères 239   >> Cyphocrana punctipes    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:500765
  • Burmeister. 1840. Germar’s Zeitschrift für die Entomologie 2:38   >> Cyphocrana punctipes
  • de Haan. 1842. In Temminck [Ed.]. Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Nederlansche Overzeesche Bezittingen 3:117   >> Cyphocrana punctipes
  • Westwood. 1859. Catalogue of the orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. 110   >> Cyphocrania punctipes    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:506060
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:394   >> Achrioptera punctipes    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5045
  • Redtenbacher. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. III. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). 3:440, pl. 20:5   >> Note: female [see Hennemann & Conle 2004, ref. in part only, also relates to magnifica, in part] >> Achrioptera punctipes
  • Schulten. 1995. Wandelnde Blätter, Stab- und Gespenstschrecken 3:74   >> Note: egg [as Achrioptera sp.] >> Achrioptera
  • Sellick. 1998. Systematic Entomology 23:226, figs 41e-f   >> Note: egg - micropylar plate >> Achrioptera punctipes
  • Baxter. 2002. Rearing Stick and Leaf Insects 10   >> Note: figure of egg >> Achrioptera punctipes punctipes
  • Cliquennois. 2003. Le Bulletin de Phyllie 17(3):5   >> Achrioptera punctipes
  • Hennemann & Conle. 2004. Mitt. Münch. Ent. Ges. 94:30, figs.   >> Achrioptera punctipes
  • Zompro. 2004. Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 13:97, fig. 2d   >> Note: egg >> Achrioptera punctipes
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 40   >> Achrioptera punctipes punctipes
  • Buckley, Attanayake & Bradler. 2009[2008]. Proc. R. Soc. B. 276:1058   >> Note: In Phylogenetic tree >> Achrioptera punctipes
  • Harman. 2012. PSG Newsletter 128:15 >> Note: PSG culture stock origin >> Achrioptera punctipes
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 299, 561, figs   >> Note: Species account; checklist of world species >> Achrioptera punctipes
  • Cliquennois & Bradler. 2022. In Goodman & et al. [Ed.]. The New Natural History of Madagascar 1191 >> Note: in checklist of Madagascan species >> Achrioptera punctipes
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Male
  • Location of type:  OUMNH Oxford

• synonym composita Carl, 1913
• synonym intermedia Redtenbacher, 1908

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