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species Didymuria violescens (Leach, 1814)

• Common name(s):  Spur-legged Stick-insect
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• Distribution:
  •  Australia: New South Wales, South Australia, south-east Queensland, Tasmania, probably Western Australia
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (82):
  • Leach. 1814. The Zoological Miscellany: being descriptions of new or interesting animals 1:26, pl. 9   >> Phasma violescens    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4641
  • Westwood. 1859. Catalogue of the orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. 116   >> Acrophylla violascens subsequent misspelling
  • Burmeister. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie 2:580   >> Cyphocrania violascens subsequent misspelling    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4645
  • Gray, G.R. 1835. Synopsis of the species of insects belonging to the family of Phasmidae 40   >> Acrophylla violascens subsequent misspelling    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4644
  • Gray, G.R. 1833. The Entomology of Australia, in a series of monographs. Part 1 containing the monograph of the genus Phasma 21, 27, pl. 7:2   >> Phasma (Diura) violascens subsequent misspelling
  • Leach. 1815. In Brewster, D. The Edinburgh Encyclopedia 9(1):119   >> Phasma violascens subsequent misspelling    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:501533
  • Stål. 1875. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 2(17):8   >> Note: affinity to Tropidoderus and Podacanthus >> Acrophylla violescens    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4642
  • McCoy. 1883. 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 8:33, pl. 79:1-2   >> Acrophylla violascens subsequent misspelling
  • Rainbow. 1897. Records of the Australian Museum, Sydney 3:41   >> Acrophylla violescens
  • Tepper. 1903. Transactions of the Royal Society of Southern Australia 26:281   >> Acrophylla violascens subsequent misspelling
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:381   >> Didymuria violescens    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4640
  • Froggatt. 1907. Australian Insects 37   >> Didymuria violescens
  • Redtenbacher. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. III. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). 3:382   >> Diura violascens subsequent misspelling    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4643
  • Casimer. 1956. Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society 15:87, 94   >> Note: notes >> Didymuria violescens
  • Key. 1957. Australian J. Zool. 5(3):247, pl. 1-3   >> Note: kentromorphism >> Didymuria violescens
  • Key. 1960. Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 17(6-8):235   >> Note: plea for addition to Official Lists; type lost >> Didymuria violescens
  • Campbell. 1960. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 85:121   >> Note: population studies >> Didymuria violescens
  • Hadlington & Shipp. 1961. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 86(3):268   >> Note: parthenogenesis; diapause >> Didymuria violescens
  • Campbell. 1961. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 86:112   >> Note: effects of forest fires >> Didymuria violescens
  • China & Riley. 1962. Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 19(5):19   >> Note: placed on Official Lists >> Didymuria violescens
  • Neumann & Endacott. 1962. Australian Forestry 26:6 >> Note: control >> Didymuria violescens
  • Readshaw. 1965. Australian J. Zool. 13:475 >> Note: pest outbreaks >> Didymuria violescens
  • Heather. 1965. Ent. Soc. Qld. 4:33   >> Note: female genitalia >> Didymuria violescens
  • Mazanec. 1966. Australian Forestry 30(2):125 >> Note: defoliation >> Didymuria violescens
  • Campbell & Hadlington. 1967. Forestry Comm. NSW Research Note 20:1   >> Note: biology >> Didymuria violescens
  • Mazanec. 1967. Australian Forestry 31:221 >> Didymuria violescens
  • Mazanec. 1968. Australian Forestry 32:3 >> Didymuria violescens
  • Readshaw. 1968. Australian J. Zool. 16:37   >> Note: predation by Pied Currawong >> Didymuria violescens
  • Readshaw & Mazanec. 1969. Australian Forestry 33(1):29 >> Note: estimate of defoliation on alpine ash >> Didymuria violescens
  • Bedford. 1970. Australian J. Zool. 18:155 >> Note: egg development >> Didymuria violescens
  • Craddock. 1970. Science 167:1380 >> Note: chromosome variation >> Didymuria violescens
  • Key. 1970. The Insects of Australia, A textbook for students and research workers. 1st Edition 351, fig. 22.3d; 358 >> Note: fig. of egg; adults >> Didymuria violescens
  • Readshaw & Bedford. 1971. Australian J. Zool. 19:141 >> Note: egg development >> Didymuria violescens
  • Healy & Smithers. 1971. Australian insects in colour (Reeds colourbook series) 25, pl. 10 >> Didymuria violescens
  • Craddock. 1972. Australian J. Zool. 20:448   >> Note: chromosomes >> Didymuria violescens
  • Campbell. 1974. J. Ent. Soc. Australia (NSW) 8:3 >> Note: pest outbreaks >> Didymuria violescens
  • Craddock. 1974. In White, M.J.D. [Ed.]. Genetic Mechanisms of Speciation in Insects 24 >> Note: chromosomal evolution and speciation >> Didymuria violescens
  • Craddock. 1975. Chromosoma (Berl.) 53:1 >> Note: Chromosomes >> Didymuria violescens
  • Neumann. 1976. J. Aust. ent. Soc. 15:183   >> Note: egg production, adult longevity >> Didymuria violescens
  • Neumann. 1976. Forests Commission, Victoria. Research Branch Report No. 15:1 >> Note: oviposition and egg studies >> Didymuria violescens
  • Neumann, Harris & Wood. 1977. Forestry Commission of Victoria Bulletin 25:1 >> Note: control >> Didymuria violescens
  • Neumann. 1978. J. Ent. Soc. Australia (NSW) 17:217   >> Note: egg stage studies >> Didymuria violescens
  • Bedford. 1978. Annual Review of Entomology 23:126   >> Note: General overview of biology and ecology from literature >> Didymuria violescens
  • Sellick. 1980. University of London, Unpublished thesis 163, fig. 98   >> Note: Egg [unpublished thesis] >> Didymuria violescens
  • Goode. 1980. Insects of Australia 41 >> Didymuria violescens
  • Hinton. 1981. Biology of insect eggs 2 fig   >> Didymuria violescens
  • Hadlington & J.A. Johnston. 1982. An introduction to Australian insects 26 >> Note: Occurs in plague numbers >> Didymuria violescens
  • Vickery. 1983. CSIRO Australian division of Entomology, Technical Paper No 20 5   >> Didymuria violescens
  • Carlberg. 1986. Zool. Anz. 216(1/2):1 >> Note: Biology >> Didymuria violescens
  • Carlberg. 1986. Biol. Zentralbl. 105:643 >> Note: Reproduction adaptations >> Didymuria violescens
  • Masetti. 1987[1986]. In Mazzini & Scali [Ed.]. Stick Insects: Phylogeny and reproduction. Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Stick Insects, Siena 150 >> Note: Vitellins >> Didymuria violescens
  • Scali & Marescalchi. 1987[1986]. In Mazzini & Scali [Ed.]. Stick Insects: Phylogeny and reproduction. Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Stick Insects, Siena 211 >> Note: Karyology and cytotaxonomy >> Didymuria violescens
  • Carlberg. 1987. Zool. Jb. Syst. 114:47 >> Note: Ovarian structure >> Didymuria violescens
  • Sellick. 1988. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 93:280   >> Note: In checklist of eggs studied by SEM >> Didymuria violescens
  • Hughes, Lesley & Westoby. 1992. Functional Ecology 6:644   >> Note: egg burial by ants >> Didymuria violescens
  • Semmens, McQuillan & Hayhurst. 1992. Catalogue of the Insects of Tasmania 63   >> Note: in Tasmania >> Didymuria violescens
  • Horne & Crawford. 1996. Backyard Insects 34, figs. >> Note: notes >> Didymuria violescens
  • Rentz. 1996. Grasshopper country. The abundant orthopteroid insects of Australia. Orthoptera; grasshoppers, katydids, crickets. Blattodea; cockroaches. Mantodea; mantids. Phasmatodea; stick insects. 248, figs.   >> Note: incl. egg >> Didymuria violescens
  • Hughes, Lesley. 1996. Nature Australia 1996 (Autumn):35 >> Didymuria violescens
  • Balderson, Rentz & Roach. 1998. In Houston & A. Wells [Ed.]. Zoological Catalog of Australia. Vol. 23. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera 366 >> Didymuria violescens
  • Sellick. 1998. Systematic Entomology 23:224   >> Note: Micropylar plate >> Didymuria violescens
  • Brock. 1999. Amateur Entomologist 26:28   >> Note: outbreaks >> Didymuria violescens
  • Collett & M. McCormick. 2001. Department of Natural Resources and Environment. Forest Service Report No. 2001/049:1 >> Note: defoliation of eucalypts >> Didymuria violescens
  • Williams, G. 2002. A Taxonomic and Biogeographic Review of the Invertebrates of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia (CERRA) World Heritage Area, and Adjacent Regions. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum Number 16 192   >> Didymuria violescens
  • Schoenborn, Collett & M. McCormick. 2003. Department of Sustainability and Environment. Forest Service Report No. 2003/001:1 >> Note: egg surveys >> Didymuria violescens
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 125   >> Didymuria violescens
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography 1570:74   >> Didymuria violescens
  • Maginnis, T.L. & L.P. Maginnis. 2007. Australian Entomologist 34(1):52 >> Note: leg autotomy and regeneration >> Didymuria violescens
  • Maginnis, T.L. 2008. Florida Entomologist 91(1):126-127   >> Note: Autotomy >> Didymuria violescens
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2009. The Complete Field Guide to Stick and Leaf Insects of Australia 124, figs., 174   >> Didymuria violescens
  • Gullan & Cranston. 2014. The Insects: An Outline of Entomology 504, fig   >> Didymuria violescens
  • Baker, E. W. 2015. Agric & Food Secur 4(22):11   >> Note: pest status >> Didymuria violescens
  • Bradler. 2015. Entomologie heute 27:8, fig   >> Note: egg >> Didymuria violescens
  • Farrow. 2016. Insects of South-Eastern Australia: An Ecological and Behavioural Guide 69, 109   >> Note: Defence display >> Didymuria violescens
  • Rudolf & Brock. 2017. In IUCN. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017 e.T80200678A80200874   >> Note: Red List - Least Concern >> Didymuria violescens
  • Bradler & Buckley. 2018. In Foottit & Adler [Ed.]. Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society. Volume 2 284, fig   >> Note: Egg >> Didymuria violescens
  • O'Hanlon, B.R. Jones & Bulbert. 2020. The Science of Nature 107(34):6   >> Didymuria violescens
  • Williams, G. 2020. The Invertebrate World of Australia’s Subtropical Rainforests 127   >> Didymuria violescens
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 467, 560, figs   >> Note: Species account; checklist of world species >> Didymuria violescens
  • Coupland. 2022. Phasmid Studies 21:8   >> Didymuria violescens
  • Brock & Coupland. 2022. Phasmid Studies 21:52, figs   >> Didymuria violescens
  • McGavin & Davranoglou. 2023[2022]. Essential Entomology. Second Edition 116   >> Note: pest status >> Didymuria violescens
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Australasia, Australia
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Male
  • Status of type:  lost
  • Location of type:  MAMU Sydney, Macleay

• synonym discolor (Redtenbacher, 1908)
• synonym roseipenne (Gray, 1833)
• synonym violascens (Leach, 1815)

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