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species Monandroptera acanthomera (Burmeister, 1838)

• Common name(s):  Reunion Thorny Stick Insect
• Images: (41) See all images

  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  Mauritius, Réunion, [reports from Madagascar most likely in error],
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (17):
  • Burmeister. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie 2:579   >> Cyphocrania acanthomera    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4611
  • Burmeister. 1840. Germar’s Zeitschrift für die Entomologie 2:38   >> Monandroptera acanthomera    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4610
  • Westwood. 1859. Catalogue of the orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. 80   >> Note: Burmeister's species confirmed as the same sp. as Serville's Monandroptera inuncans >> Monandroptera inuncans
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:387   >> Monandroptera acanthomera
  • Orian. 1957. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 12 10(115):516   >> Note: Mauritius, Reunion, Madagascar >> Monandroptera acanthomera
  • Vinson. 1968. The Mauritius Institute Bulletin 6(3):113 >> Note: in list of phasmids from Réunion, Mauritius & Madagascar >> Monandroptera acanthomera
  • Brock. 2003. Rearing and studying stick and leaf insects. The Amateur Entomologist Volume 22 65   >> Note: rearing >> Monandroptera acanthomera
  • Cliquennois & Brock. 2004. Bull. Soc. entomol. Fr. 109(1):48, figs.   >> Note: egg >> Monandroptera acanthomera
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 205   >> Monandroptera acanthomera
  • Zompro. 2005. D. ent. Zs 52(2):253   >> Note: type data >> Monandroptera acanthomera
  • Attié, Baret & Strasberg. 2005. Revue d'Ecologie la Terre et la Vie 60(2):114, 125 >> Note: foodplants in Réunion >> Monandroptera acanthomera
  • Cliquennois. 2007. Bull. Soc. entomol. Fr. 112(3):400   >> Note: foodplants >> Monandroptera acanthomera
  • Delfosse. 2009. Le Bulletin d'Arthropoda 41:4, fig. >> Monandroptera acanthomera
  • Buckley, Attanayake & Bradler. 2009[2008]. Proc. R. Soc. B. 276:1058   >> Note: In Phylogenetic tree >> Monandroptera acanthomera
  • Harman. 2013. PSG Newsletter 131:13 >> Note: PSG culture stock origin >> Monandroptera acanthomera
  • Bradler, Cliquennois & Buckley. 2015. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15(196):App1   >> Monandroptera acanthomera
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids pl. 40, 556   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Monandroptera acanthomera
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa, Western Indian Ocean, Mauritius, [Ile-de-France]
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Male
  • Location of type:  MNHU Berlin Mus.

• synonym inuncans Audinet-Serville, 1838
• synonym jumnos (Westwood, 1859)
• synonym olivacea Redtenbacher, 1908
• synonym parallela Westwood, 1859
• synonym scolopendra Redtenbacher, 1908
• synonym undulata (Westwood, 1843)

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