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species Hermarchus insignis (Kaup & Heyden, 1871)

• Common name(s):  Distinguished Stick-insect
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• Distribution:
  •  Australia: Queensland
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (12):
  • Kaup & Heyden. 1871. In Kaup. Neue Phasmiden. Berliner Entomologische Zeitung 15:39 >> Cladoxerus insignis    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5004
  • Rainbow. 1897. Records of the Australian Museum, Sydney 3:43   >> Cladoxerus insignis
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:381   >> Lysicles insignis    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5005
  • Vickery. 1983. CSIRO Australian division of Entomology, Technical Paper No 20 8   >> Note: type not traced >> Lysicles insignis
  • Balderson, Rentz & Roach. 1998. In Houston & A. Wells [Ed.]. Zoological Catalog of Australia. Vol. 23. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera 371 >> Lysicles insignis
  • Zompro. 2001. Senckenbergiana biologica 81(1/2):138, fig. 12   >> Hermarchus insignis    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5003
  • Zompro. 2004. Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 13:93   >> Hermarchus insignis
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 155   >> Hermarchus insignis
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography 1570:73   >> Hermarchus insignis
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2009. The Complete Field Guide to Stick and Leaf Insects of Australia 112, figs.   >> Note: egg >> Hermarchus insignis
  • Harman. 2012. PSG Newsletter 127:12 >> Note: PSG culture stock origin >> Hermarchus insignis
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 559   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Hermarchus insignis
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Australasia, Australia
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Female
  • Location of type:  SMFD Frankfurt

• synonym polynesicus Redtenbacher, 1908

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