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species Tirachoidea biceps (Redtenbacher, 1908)

• Common name(s):  Two-humped Stick-insect
• Images: (24) See all images

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• Distribution:
  •  Jawa, Peninsula Malaysia, Sumatra, Northeast India [=Assam] (with doubt)
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (22):
  • Redtenbacher. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. III. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). 3:451   >> Pharnacia biceps    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4290
  • Weidner. 1966. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburger Zoologischen Museum und Institut 63:231   >> Note: type data >> Pharnacia biceps
  • Hennemann & Conle. 1996. Entomol. Z. 106(11):435   >> Note: type data Stuttgart [female listed as holotype in error] >> Pharnacia biceps
  • Brock. 1996. Phasmid Studies 5(1):27   >> Pharnacia biceps
  • Seiler, C. & et al. 2000. Phasmiden Pflege und Zucht von Gespenstschrecken, Stabschrecken und Wandelnden Blattern im Terrarium 104, figs >> Note: rearing; egg >> Pharnacia biceps
  • Potvin, W. 2001[2000]. Phasmid Studies 9(1&2):28   >> Note: Rearing >> Pharnacia biceps
  • Zompro. 2002. Mitteilungen des Hamburger Zoologischen Museums und Instituts 99:182   >> Note: Type data, Hamburg >> Pharnacia biceps
  • Hennemann & Conle. 2003. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A (Biologie) 651:5   >> Note: type data, Stuttgart >> Pharnacia biceps
  • Zompro & Brock. 2003. Revue suisse de Zoologie 110(1):7   >> Note: type data >> Pharnacia biceps
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 264   >> Pharnacia biceps
  • Zompro. 2005. Arthropoda 13(4):4   >> Note: type data, Stuttgart >> Tirachoidea biceps    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4289
  • Zompro. 2005. D. ent. Zs 52(2):255   >> Note: type data >> Pharnacia biceps
  • Brock. 2007. Zootaxa 1398:49, fig.   >> Note: type data, St. Petersburg >> Pharnacia biceps
  • Hennemann & Conle. 2008. Zootaxa 1906:220, figs   >> Note: lectotype designation; egg >> Tirachoidea biceps
  • Mandal & Yadav. 2010. Records of the Zoological Survey of India Occasional Paper 318:33   >> Note: Redescribed from the literature >> Tirachoidea biceps
  • Harman. 2013. PSG Newsletter 130:13   >> Note: PSG culture stock origin >> Tirachoidea biceps
  • Seow-Choen. 2018. A taxonomic guide to the stick insects of Sumatra. Volume 1 436, figs   >> Tirachoidea biceps
  • Delfosse, Cliquennois, Depraetere & Robillard. 2019. Zoosystema 41(11):191   >> Note: Type material in MHNH, Paris >> Tirachoidea biceps
  • Seow-Choen. 2020. A taxonomic guide to the stick insects of Sumatra. Volume 2 396   >> Note: in checklist of Sumatran species >> Tirachoidea biceps
  • Seow-Choen. 2021. A taxonomic guide to the stick insects of Peninsular Malaysia Volume 1 749, figs   >> Tirachoidea biceps
  • Singh, L.R.K., Chandra & D. Gupta. 2021. In Chandra, Kosygin, Raghunathan & D. Gupta [Ed.]. Faunal Diversity of Biogeographic Zones of India: North-East 229 >> Note: in checklist list of North-East India >> Tirachoidea biceps
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 421, 555, fig   >> Note: Species account; checklist of world species >> Tirachoidea biceps
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Asia-Tropical, Malesia, Jawa
  • Kind of type:  lectotype
  • Specimen category:  Female
  • Location of type:  NMW Vienna Museum

• synonym chiniensis (Seow-Choen, 1998)

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