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species Megaphasma denticrus (Stål, 1875)

• Common name(s):  Giant Walkingstick
• Images: (6) See all images

  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  United States: Iowa and Indiana to Texas and Louisiana; Mexico
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (36):
  • Stål. 1875. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 32:76   >> Diapheromera denticrus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:3065
  • Scudder, S.H. 1901. Psyche 9:187   >> Diapheromera denticrus
  • Caudell. 1903. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 26(1333):780   >> Note: [sic] in Texas >> Diapheromera dentricus subsequent misspelling    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:501195
  • Caudell. 1903. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 26:878, pl. 572, 2a-b   >> Note: [sic]; redescription; male >> Megaphasma dentricus
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1903. Ent. News 14:329   >> Note: in Texas >> Megaphasma denticrus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:3064
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:347   >> Megaphasma denticrus
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1907. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. II. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Clitumnini, Lonchodini, Bacunculini). Phasmiden:338   >> Diapheromera denticrus
  • Shelford. 1909. Biologia Centrali-Americana Insecta Orthoptera 2:354   >> Diapheromera denticrus
  • Somes. 1916. Ent. News 27:269   >> Megaphasma denticrus
  • Blatchley. 1920. Orthoptera of Northeastern America: with especial reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida 142   >> Megaphasma dentricus subsequent misspelling
  • Blatchley. 1924. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 32:128   >> Note: First records from Indiana >> Megaphasma denticrus
  • Beamer. 1932. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 5(1):28 >> Megaphasma dentricus subsequent misspelling
  • Sjöstedt. 1933. Arkiv för Zoologi 25A(16):5 >> Note: type data, male not female [in error] >> Diapheromera denticrus
  • Hebard. 1943. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 68:309   >> Note: In Texas
  • Gurney. 1947. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 40:373   >> Note: Largest phasmid sp. in United States >> Megaphasma denticrus
  • Tinkham. 1948. American Midland Naturalist 40(3):560   >> Megaphasma dentricus subsequent misspelling
  • Wilkins & Breland. 1951. Texas Journal of Science 2:305, figs >> Note: Notes, egg description >> Megaphasma denticrus
  • Arnold. 1973. Proc. Okla. Acad. Sci. 53:107   >> Note: in Oklahoma >> Megaphasma denticrus
  • Arnett. 1985. American insects: a handbook of the insects of America north of Mexico. First edition. 115 >> Megaphasma denticrus
  • Stark & Lentz. 1986. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 59(2):398 >> Note: egg >> Megaphasma dentricus subsequent misspelling
  • Helfer. 1987. How to know the grasshoppers, crickets, cockroaches and their allies 22, fig. >> Megaphasma denticrus
  • Sellick. 1988. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 93:280   >> Note: In checklist of eggs studied by SEM >> Megaphasma denticus subsequent misspelling    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:500951
  • Otte. 1997. In Poole & Gentili [Ed.]. Nomina Insecta Nearctica. A check list of the insects of North America. Volume 4 Non-holometabolous orders 638   >> Note: in checklist of insects of North America >> Megaphasma denticrus
  • Sellick. 1998. Systematic Entomology 23:213   >> Note: Micropylar plate >> Megaphasma denticus subsequent misspelling
  • Zompro. 1998. Revision nearktischer und neotropischer Genera der Insektenordnung Phasmatodea, insbesondere der Familie Heteronemiidae sensu Bradley & Galil 51   >> Note: [Unpublished thesis] >> Megaphasma denticrus
  • Zompro. 2001. Revue suisse de Zoologie 108(1):212   >> Megaphasma dentricus subsequent misspelling
  • Brock. 1999. Amateur Entomologist 26:19, pl.   >> Note: longest U.S.A. species >> Megaphasma dentricus subsequent misspelling
  • Stidham, J.A. & T.A. Stidham. 2001. Insecta Mundi 15(1):36   >> Note: in checklist of phasmids of Texas >> Megaphasma denticrus
  • Baxter. 2002. Rearing Stick and Leaf Insects 12   >> Note: [sic]; figure of egg >> Megaphasma denticus
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 198   >> Megaphasma denticrum
  • Arment [Ed.]. 2006. Stick Insects of the Continental United States and Canada: species and early studies 29   >> Megaphasma denticrus
  • Maginnis, T.L., Cool & Muniz. 2008. Texas Journal of Science 60(1):57 >> Note: also referred to as denticrus; mating behaviour >> Megaphasma dentricus subsequent misspelling
  • Evans. 2007. National Wildlife Federation field guide to insects and spiders of North America 106, fig   >> Megaphasma dentricus subsequent misspelling
  • López-Mora & Llorente-Bousquets. 2018. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 89:48   >> Note: in checklist of species from Mexico >> Megaphasma denticrus
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 235, 513, figs   >> Note: Species account; checklist of world species >> Megaphasma denticrus
  • Luna. 2022. Phasmid Studies 21:92, 95, figs   >> Megaphasma denticrus
• Scrutiny:
  • Brock, 2008, Comment from Judith Marshall: "Diapheromera seems to be feminine though I am unsure of the etymology; hence femorata etc., but every one seems to have agreed on denticrus until PSF 2005. If it were adjectival then yes to denticrum, but I suggest it has been regarded as a noun in apposition and should not change."
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, Southeastern U.S.A., Louisiana, Opelousas
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Female
  • Location of type:  NHRS Stockholm

• synonym armata (Piza, 1973)
• synonym denticus Sellick, 1988
• synonym dentricus (Caudell, 1903)

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