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species Megacrania tsudai Shiraki, 1933

• Common name(s):  Tsuda's Giant Stick-insect
• Images: (16) See all images

  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  Taiwan and its eastern offshore islands (Orchid Island and Green Island and the Okinawan islands of Iriomote and Ishigaki)
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (21):
  • Shiraki. 1933. Dobutsugaku Zasshi 45(532-533):109 >> Megacrania tsudai    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4826
  • Maki. 1935. Memoir of Taihoku Imp. Univ. 12(2):181 >> Note: musculature >> Megacrania tsudai
  • Shiraki. 1935. Mem. Fac. Sci. Agr. Taihoku Imp. Univ, Formosa 14(3):70   >> Megacrania tsudai
  • Günther. 1937. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 8(3):5 >> Megacrania alpheus
  • Willemse, C.J.M. 1955. Treubia 23(1):45   >> Note: [misidentification] >> Megacrania alpheus
  • Wang, C.H. & Y.I. Chu. 1982. Phytopatholoist & Entomologist, Taiwan 9:98 >> Note: egg morphology [misidentification] >> Megacrania alpheus
  • Chow & Y.M. Lin. 1986. Journal of Entomological Science 21(2):98 >> Note: defensive secretion [misidentification] >> Megacrania alpheus
  • Saure. 1988. Stuttgarter Beiträge Naturkunde Serie A [Biologie] A 413:1   >> Note: Musculature of abdominal segments IV and V >> Megacrania tsudai
  • Hsiung. 1991. Oriental Insects 25:173   >> Note: Lectotype designated; removed from syn. with M. alpheus >> Megacrania tsudai
  • Ho, H.Y. & Chow. 1993. J. Chem. Ecol. 19(1):39 >> Note: Chemical identification of defensive secretion >> Megacrania tsudai
  • Huang, Y.S. 2002. Phasmids in Taiwan 116, figs. >> Note: egg >> Megacrania tsudai
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 198   >> Megacrania tsudai
  • Xu, J. 2005. In Ren, K.T., R.C. Cheng & F.M. Shi [Ed.]. Classification and Diversity of Insects in China 76 >> Megacrania tsudai
  • Hsiung. 2007. Jour. of Orthoptera Res. 16(2):211, fig.   >> Megacrania tsudai
  • Chen, S.C. & Y.H. He. 2008. Phasmatodea of China 355, fig. 320   >> Megacrania tsudai
  • Kobayashi, Usui, Nomoto, Ushirokita, Denda & Izawa. 2014. Ecol Res 29:1025 >> Note: egg dispersal >> Megacrania tsudai
  • Harman. 2015. PSG Newsletter 135:26 >> Note: PSG culture stock notes >> Megacrania tsudai
  • Ichikawa. 2016. In Machida & Japan Orthopteran Society [Ed.]. The standard of Polyneoptera in Japan 191   >> Megacrania tsudai
  • Kobayashi, Usui, Nomoto, Ushirokita, Denda & Izawa. 2016. Zoological Studies 55(20):1   >> Note: Population Dynamics and the Effects of Temperature on the Eggs >> Megacrania tsudai
  • Wu, I.H, H.H. Liu, Yu-Yen Chen, Tsai, Y.C. Yu, Hsiao & Yeh. 2020. Entomological Science 1   >> Note: Life cycle, phenology and genetic structure; male >> Megacrania tsudai
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids pl. 39, 408, 556, fig   >> Note: Species account; checklist of world species >> Megacrania tsudai
• Scrutiny:
  • Brock, 2009, George Hsiung (p.c.) wrote 'I am not sure whether the lectotype of M. tsudai is in the Lyman Museum [Canada] or was returned to Uni. of Taiwan'. If in Taiwan, no specimen is marked LT. I added PLT labels to all 17 specimens, which appear to be part of the type series
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Asia-Temperate, Eastern Asia, Taiwan, Kuraru [present name: Hen Ch'un (Koshun) = Kuraru and Kankau]
  • Kind of type:  lectotype
  • Specimen category:  Female
  • Location of type:  NTUC Taipei Univ.

• synonym adan Yamasaki, 1991

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