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species Rhaphiderus spiniger (Lucas, 1862)

• Common name(s):  Reunion Stick Insect
• Distribution:
  •  Réunion
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (15):
  • Lucas. 1862. Notes sur l´Ile de la Réunion 2(App 1):22-23, pl. 21 >> Monandroptera spinigera    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4592
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:382   >> Rhaphiderus spinigera    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4593
  • Redtenbacher. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. III. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). 3:387   >> Rhaphiderus scabrosus
  • Schulten. 1995. DATZ 10/95:643, fig. 3 >> Note: [misidentified = spinigerus] >> Rhaphiderus scabrosus
  • Schulten. 1995. Wandelnde Blätter, Stab- und Gespenstschrecken 3:88, figs.   >> Note: rearing [= spinigerus, misidentified as R. scabrosus] >> Rhaphiderus scabrosus
  • Lipinski, Greven, Schulten & Löser. 1999. Die Struktur der Eihüllen von 48 Phasmatodea-Arten aus der Sammlung des Löbbecke Museum und Aquazoo Düsseldorf 86, figs.   >> Note: egg structure [misidentification = R. spinigerus] >> Rhaphiderus scabrosus
  • Baxter. 2002. Rearing Stick and Leaf Insects 9, 86, figs   >> Note: [misidentified = spiniger], figure of egg >> Rhaphiderus scabrosus
  • Brock. 2003. Rearing and studying stick and leaf insects. The Amateur Entomologist Volume 22 65   >> Note: rearing >> Rhaphiderus spinigerus
  • Cliquennois & Brock. 2004. Bull. Soc. entomol. Fr. 109(1):54, figs 30-35, 38-39   >> Note: Egg >> Rhaphiderus spinigerus
  • Attié, Baret & Strasberg. 2005. Revue d'Ecologie la Terre et la Vie 60(2):114, 125 >> Note: foodplants in Réunion >> Rhaphiderus spiniger
  • Cliquennois. 2005. PSG Newsletter 102:4, fig. 2 >> Note: correct spelling spiniger, not spinigerus >> Rhaphiderus spiniger
  • Cliquennois. 2007. Bull. Soc. entomol. Fr. 112(3):402   >> Note: foodplants >> Rhaphiderus spiniger
  • Harman. 2012. PSG Newsletter 127:13 >> Note: PSG culture stock origin >> Rhaphiderus spinigerus
  • Bradler, Cliquennois & Buckley. 2015. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15(196):2, fig, App1   >> Rhaphiderus spiniger
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 556   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Rhaphiderus spiniger
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Africa, Western Indian Ocean, Reunion
  • Kind of type:  syntypes
  • Specimen category:   multiple Males

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