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genus Gigantophasma Sharp, 1898

• Distribution:
  •  New Caledonia
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (11):
  • Sharp. 1898. In Willey. Zoological Results: based on material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty islands and elsewhere, collected during the years 1895, 1896 and 1897 87   >> Gigantophasma    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4583
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:386   >> Note: Acrophyllinae; type species designation >> Gigantophasma
  • Redtenbacher. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. III. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). 3:443   >> Gigantophasma
  • Bradley, J.C. & Galil. 1977. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 79(2):193   >> Note: Phasmatinae: Pharnachiini >> Gigantophasma
  • Sellick. 1979. Systematic Entomology 4:327   >> Note: Key to eggs of genera [figs without reference to species] >> Gigantophasma
  • Sellick. 1997. Systematic Entomology 22:121   >> Note: Key to eggs of genera [but figs often without reference to species] >> Gigantophasma
  • Bragg. 2001. Phasmids of Borneo 633   >> Note: type species data >> Gigantophasma
  • Zompro. 2004. Revision of the genera of the Areolatae, including the status of Timema and Agathemera (Insecta, Phasmatodea) 311   >> Note: type species data >> Gigantophasma
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 145   >> Gigantophasma
  • Hennemann & Conle. 2008. Zootaxa 1906:44   >> Note: in Gigantophasmatini, new tribe >> Gigantophasma
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 559   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Gigantophasma
• Type species:  Gigantophasma bicolor Sharp, by subsequent designation; authority:  Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:1-501
• The first family-group name based on this genus is Gigantophasmatini Hennemann & Conle, 2008.

• species bicolor Sharp, 1898
• synonym bicolour Sellick, 1998
• species pallipes Sharp, 1898

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