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species Tropidoderus rhodomus McCoy, 1882

• Common name(s):  Red-Shouldered Stick-insect
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• Distribution:
  •  Australia: New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (15):
  • McCoy. 1882. Natural History of Victoria. Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria, or, figures and descriptions of living species of all classes of the Victorian indigenous Animals 7:35, pl. 69, 70:1   >> Tropidoderus rhodomus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4670
  • Rainbow. 1897. Records of the Australian Museum, Sydney 3:43   >> Tropidoderus rhodomus
  • Tepper. 1903. Transactions of the Royal Society of Southern Australia 26:282   >> Tropidoderus rhodomus
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:380   >> Note: also = Tropidoderus childrenii var. of Westwood, 1859:166 >> Tropidoderus rhodomus
  • Froggatt. 1907. Australian Insects 37   >> Tropidoderus rhodomus
  • Redtenbacher. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. III. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). 3:384   >> Tropidoderus childreni
  • Tillyard. 1926. The Insects of Australia and New Zealand 94   >> Tropidoderus rhodomus
  • McKeown. 1940. Australian Museum Magazine 7(4):129   >> Note: Not uncommon species >> Tropidoderus rhodomus
  • Vickery. 1983. CSIRO Australian division of Entomology, Technical Paper No 20 11   >> Note: valid species (no reference to Redtenbacher) >> Tropidoderus rhodomus
  • Balderson, Rentz & Roach. 1998. In Houston & A. Wells [Ed.]. Zoological Catalog of Australia. Vol. 23. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera 375 >> Tropidoderus rhodomus
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 338   >> Tropidoderus rhodomus
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography 1570:75   >> Tropidoderus rhodomus
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2009. The Complete Field Guide to Stick and Leaf Insects of Australia 144, figs., 179   >> Note: male; egg >> Tropidoderus rhodomus
  • Rudolf & Brock. 2018. In IUCN. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018 e.T80228848A80228862   >> Note: Red List - Least Concern >> Tropidoderus rhodomus
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 560   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Tropidoderus rhodomus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Australasia, Australia, Victoria, Melbourne, Inglewood
  • Kind of type:  syntypes
  • Specimen category:   multiple Females
  • Location of type:  MVMA Melbourne

• synonym tecticollis (Redtenbacher, 1908)

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