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species Nisyrus dipneusticus (Wood-Mason, 1878)

• Common name(s):  Lobed Fiji Stick-insect
• Images:

  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  Fiji
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (16):
  • Wood-Mason. 1878. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5)1:102   >> Cotylosoma dipneusticum    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4566
  • Waterhouse. 1895. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6)15:498   >> Note: Observations on supposed semiaquatic nature >> Cotylosoma dipneusticum
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:407   >> Cotylosoma dipneusticum
  • Redtenbacher. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. III. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). 3:360   >> Nisyrus dipneusticus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4567
  • Uvarov. 1935. Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere 30:432   >> Note: notes, habits >> Cotylosoma dipneusticum
  • Ragge. 1956. Proc. R. Ent. Soc. Lond. (B)25:1, pl. 1   >> Note: male, female; redescription >> Cotylosoma dipneusticum
  • Nakata. 1961. Pacific Insects Monograph 2:109   >> Cotylosoma dipneusticum
  • Sellick. 1980. University of London, Unpublished thesis 111, fig. 59   >> Note: Egg [unpublished thesis] >> Cotylosoma dipneusticum
  • Sellick. 1987[1986]. In Mazzini & Scali [Ed.]. Stick Insects: Phylogeny and reproduction. Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Stick Insects, Siena 133 >> Note: Micropylar plate >> Cotylosoma dipneusticum
  • Sellick. 1988. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 93:280   >> Note: In checklist of eggs studied by SEM >> Cotylosoma dipneusticum
  • Sellick. 1998. Systematic Entomology 23:222   >> Note: Micropylar plate >> Cotylosoma dipneusticum
  • Harman. 2000[1999]. Phasmid Studies 8(1&2):17   >> Note: in checklist of Oceania phasmids (update of Nakata 1961) >> Cotylosoma dipneusticum
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 110   >> Cotylosoma dipneusticum
  • Waqa-Sakiti & Caucau. 2009. A Rapid Biodiversity Assessment of the Nakorotubu Range, Ra and Tailevu Provinces, Fiji.: 42 46   >> Cotylosoma dipneusticum
  • Brock, J.A. Marshall, Beccaloni & Harman. 2016. Zootaxa 4179(2):168   >> Note: type data >> Cotylosoma dipneusticum
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids pl. 13.1, 480, 561, 572, figs   >> Note: Species account; checklist of world species >> Nisyrus dipneusticus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Pacific, Southwestern Pacific, Fiji, Taviuni [not 'Borneo' as in original description; corrected by Waterhouse 1895]
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Female
  • Location of type:  NHMUK London NH Mus.

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