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genus Hermarchus Stål, 1875

• Distribution:
  •  Melanesia (Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Western French Polynesia, NE- Australia?)
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (24):
  • Stål. 1875. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 32:44-45, 89   >> Hermarchus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4992
  • Stål. 1875. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 3(14):17   >> Hermarchus
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:360   >> Note: Palophinae; type species designation >> Hermarchus
  • Redtenbacher. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. III. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). 3:444   >> Note: key to species >> Hermarchus
  • Günther. 1929. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum, Berlin 14:625 >> Hermarchus
  • Ragge. 1955. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society, London 106(9):377   >> Note: Wing-venation >> Hermarchus
  • Nakata. 1961. Pacific Insects Monograph 2:109   >> Note: List of species in Pacific Islands >> Hermarchus
  • Bradley, J.C. & Galil. 1977. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 79(2):193   >> Note: Phasmatinae: Pharnachiini >> Hermarchus
  • Sellick. 1979. Systematic Entomology 4:326   >> Note: Key to eggs of genera [figs without reference to species] >> Hermarchus
  • Vickery. 1983. CSIRO Australian division of Entomology, Technical Paper No 20 7   >> Hermarchus
  • Sellick. 1987[1986]. In Mazzini & Scali [Ed.]. Stick Insects: Phylogeny and reproduction. Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Stick Insects, Siena 137 >> Note: Micropylar plate >> Hermarchus
  • Brock. 1992. Rearing and studying stick and leaf insects. The Amateur Entomologist Volume 22 58   >> Note: Rearing >> Hermarchus
  • Sellick. 1997. Systematic Entomology 22:121   >> Note: Key to eggs of genera [but figs often without reference to species] >> Hermarchus
  • Herwaarden. 1998. Science in New Guinea 24(2):88   >> Hermarchus
  • Sellick. 1998. Systematic Entomology 23:226   >> Note: Micropylar plate >> Hermarchus
  • Bragg. 2001. Phasmids of Borneo 634   >> Note: type species data >> Hermarchus
  • Zompro. 2004. Revision of the genera of the Areolatae, including the status of Timema and Agathemera (Insecta, Phasmatodea) 311   >> Note: type species data >> Hermarchus
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 154   >> Hermarchus
  • Hennemann & Conle. 2006. Zootaxa 1283:2   >> Note: New Guinea spp transferred to a new genus, Macrophasma >> Hermarchus
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography 1570:73   >> Hermarchus
  • Hennemann & Conle. 2008. Zootaxa 1906:45   >> Note: in Stephanacridini >> Hermarchus
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2009. The Complete Field Guide to Stick and Leaf Insects of Australia 169   >> Hermarchus
  • Hennemann. 2020. Zootaxa 4896(2):174   >> Note: Tribe Stephanacridini >> Hermarchus
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 559   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Hermarchus
• Type species:  Phibalosoma pythonius Westwood, by subsequent designation; authority:  Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:1-501
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• nomen dubium trigonus (Thunberg, 1815)
• species apollonius (Westwood, 1859)
• synonym appolonius Sellick, 1980
• species differens Redtenbacher, 1908
• species insignis (Kaup & Heyden, 1871)
• synonym polynesicus Redtenbacher, 1908
• species leytensis Zompro, 1997
• species novaebritanniae (Wood-Mason, 1877)
• synonym britanniae (Tepper, 1903)
• species pythonius (Westwood, 1859)
• species virga Redtenbacher, 1908

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