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species Graeffea crouanii (Le Guillou, 1841)

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

  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  South West Pacific, including Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (35):
  • Le Guillou. 1841. Revue zoologique Sociâetâe Cuvierienne 293   >> Bacillus crouanii    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4888
  • Westwood. 1859. Catalogue of the orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. 14   >> Bacillus crouanii
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:386   >> Graeffea crouanii    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4887
  • Hebard. 1933. Pac. Ent. Sur. Pub. 114:124   >> Graeffea crouanii
  • O'Connor. 1949. Agric. Journal 20(2):1 >> Note: pest status in Tonga >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Eady. 1956. Bull. Ent. Res. 47:61 >> Note: Parasites (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae) >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Nakata. 1961. Pacific Insects Monograph 2:117   >> Note: Various pacific Islands, also Australia [Brock - not the case, Australia listed in error] >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Paine. 1968. Bull. Ent. Res. 57:567, figs. >> Note: biological control, egg >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Stelzer. 1970. Bull. Ent. Res. 60:49 >> Note: control >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Bedford. 1978. Annual Review of Entomology 23:126   >> Note: Oviposition >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Kamath & D.N. Singh. 1979. Ann. res. Rept. 1979 Dept. Agric. Fiji 76 >> Note: ecological studies >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Smith, R.M., Brophy, Cavill & N.W. Davies. 1979. J. Chem. Ecol. 5:727 >> Note: defensive secretion chemicals >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Sellick. 1980. University of London, Unpublished thesis 102, fig. 51   >> Note: Egg [unpublished thesis] >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Carlberg. 1981. J. Chem. Ecol. 7(5):905 >> Note: Defensive secretion >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Carlberg. 1986. Zool. Anz. 216(1/2):8 >> Note: Biology >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Sellick. 1988. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 93:280   >> Note: In checklist of eggs studied by SEM >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Rapp. 1989. Coconut stick insect Graeffea crouanii (Orthoptera, Phasmida), coconut flat moth Agonoxena argaula (Lepidoptera, Agonoxenidae) : studies on pest status, biology, ecology and control carried out in the Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific 1 >> Note: In unpublished thesis >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Rapp. 1995. J Appl Entomol 119:89   >> Note: egg mortality >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Kevan & Vickery. 1997. Micronesica 30(2):325   >> Note: in Micronesia >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Sellick. 1998. Systematic Entomology 23:221   >> Note: Micropylar plate >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Paulian. 1998. Les Insectes de Tahiti 68, fig >> Note: in Tahiti >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Brock. 1999. Amateur Entomologist 26:28   >> Note: pest >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Willemse, L.P.M. 2001. Fauna Malesiana guide to the pest Orthoptera of the Indo-Malayan Region 117, fig. >> Note: pest status >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Brock. 2003. In Gale Research Staff. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Insects 227, fig. 3, 231   >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Brock. 2003. Rearing and studying stick and leaf insects. The Amateur Entomologist Volume 22 64, pl. 3b   >> Note: rearing >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 146   >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Evenhuis. 2007. Bishop Museum Technical Report 38(17):1   >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Trewick, Morgan-Richards & L.J. Collins. 2008. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48(3):806   >> Note: Phylogenetic analysis >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Waqa-Sakiti & Caucau. 2009. A Rapid Biodiversity Assessment of the Nakorotubu Range, Ra and Tailevu Provinces, Fiji.: 42 46   >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Swamy & Deesh. 2012. MPI Technical Bulletin 1:1, figs. >> Note: management in Fiji >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Deesh, Swamy & Khan. 2013. Fiji Agriculture Journal 53(1):18   >> Note: Distribution and parasitoids in Fiji >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Baker, E. W. 2015. Agric & Food Secur 4(22):13   >> Note: pest status >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Hennemann. 2020. Zootaxa 4896(2):165   >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Deesh, Jokhan, Joshi, Khan & Jerard. 2020. Journal of Plantation Crops 48(1):1   >> Note: Seasonal abundance and host plants, Fiji >> Graeffea crouanii
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 471, 555, fig   >> Note: Species account; checklist of world species >> Graeffea crouanii
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Pacific, Southwestern Pacific, Samoa
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Male

• synonym coccophaga (Newport, 1844)
• synonym fulvescens (Saussure, 1868)
• synonym purpuripennis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1868

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