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species Cuniculina cuniculus (Westwood, 1859)

• Common name(s):  Sri Lankan Stick Insect
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• Distribution:
  •  India, Sri Lanka
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (23):
  • Westwood. 1859. Catalogue of the orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. 9, pl. 6:2   >> Bacillus cuniculus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4124
  • Saussure. 1869. Mém. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Genève 20:292, pl. 2:2   >> Note: [sic] >> Bacillus cunicularis
  • Kaup. 1871. Berliner Entomologische Zeitung 15:18, pl. 1:2   >> Note: egg >> Bacillus cuniculus
  • Stål. 1875. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 32:67   >> Clitumnus cuniculus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4126
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:328   >> Baculum cuniculus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4127
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1907. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. II. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Clitumnini, Lonchodini, Bacunculini). Phasmiden:206   >> Cuniculina cuniculus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4128
  • Fryer. 1913. J. of Genetics 3(2):107, pl. 3 >> Note: Possibly this species; variation
  • Yasumatsu. 1942. Bulletin of Takarazuka Insectarium 18:14, fig. 19 >> Note: egg >> Bacillus cuniculus
  • Sellick. 1980. University of London, Unpublished thesis 153, fig. 91   >> Note: Egg [unpublished thesis] >> Baculum cuniculum
  • Vanschuytbroeck & Cools. 1981. Bull. Inst. r. Sci. nat. Belg. 53(23):15   >> Note: in RBINS coll., Java >> Baculum cuniculus
  • Sellick. 1993. Phasmid Studies 2(1):13, fig   >> Note: Egg >> Baculum cuniculum
  • Sellick. 1997. Phasmid Studies 6(1):15   >> Note: Comments on egg >> Baculum cuniculum
  • Sellick. 1998. Systematic Entomology 23:225   >> Note: Micropylar plate >> Baculum cuniculum
  • Zompro. 2000. Senckenbergiana biologica 81(1/2):144 >> Note: Kaup’s egg not traced; Ramulus [here retained pending a proper evaluation of taxa] >> Ramulus cuniculus
  • Hennemann. 2002. Mitt. Münch. Ent. Ges. 92:65, figs   >> Note: egg >> Cuniculina cuniculus
  • Brock. 2003. Rearing and studying stick and leaf insects. The Amateur Entomologist Volume 22 62   >> Note: rearing >> Cuniculina cunicula
  • Zompro. 2004. Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 13:91   >> Note: egg not traced; Kaup's figure belongs to an unidentified species of Ramulus >> Bacillus cuniculus
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 113   >> Cuniculina cunicula
  • Mandal & Yadav. 2010. Records of the Zoological Survey of India Occasional Paper 318:23   >> Note: Redescribed from the literature >> Cuniculina cunicula
  • Harman. 2013. PSG Newsletter 130:14   >> Note: PSG culture stock origin >> Cuniculina cunicula
  • Brock, J.A. Marshall, Beccaloni & Harman. 2016. Zootaxa 4179(2):167   >> Note: type data >> Cuniculina cunicula
  • Delfosse, Cliquennois, Depraetere & Robillard. 2019. Zoosystema 41(11):206   >> Note: Correct ending of species name cuniculus not cunicula >> Cuniculina cuniculus
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 549   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Cuniculina cuniculus
• Type specimen information:
  • There are multiple primary types, see specimen data for details.

• synonym acute-cornuta Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907
• synonym acutecornutum Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907
• synonym attingens (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907)
• synonym ceylonicus (Saussure, 1868)
• synonym grallator (Bates, 1865)
• synonym hypereon (Sellick, 1998)
• synonym hyphereon (Westwood, 1859)
• synonym insolens Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907
• synonym inverse-cornuta Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907
• synonym inversecornutum Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907
• synonym inversicornutum (Sellick, 1998)
• synonym laevissimum Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907
• synonym rivalis (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907)
• synonym scytale (Bates, 1865)

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