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species Diapheromera (Diapheromera) femorata (Say, 1824)

• Common name(s):  Common American Walkingstick; Northern Walkingstick
• Images: (7) See all images

  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  Maine and southern Canada to Florida and Arizona; also in Mexico
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (89):
  • Say. 1824. Long's 2nd Exped. St Peter's River 297 >> Spectrum femoratum    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:2658
  • Say. 1828. American Entomology or descriptions of the insects of North-America 3:4-5, pl. 37   >> Spectrum femoratum
  • Audinet-Serville. 1838[1839]. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Orthoptères 247   >> Diapheromera sayi
  • Jaeger. 1854. The life of North American insects 1854:123   >> Spectrum femoratum
  • Gibb. 1859. Canadian Naturalist and Geologist 4:127 >> Note: Produces no sound >> Spectrum femoratum
  • Scudder, S.H. 1901. Psyche 9:189   >> Diapheromera femorata    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:2660
  • Caudell. 1903. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 26:874   >> Note: nomenclature, description >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Weed. 1903. Nature Biographies the lives of some everyday butterflies: moths: grasshoppers and flies 58, figs. >> Note: notes, habits >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1903. Ent. News 14:331   >> Note: in Texas >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:346   >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Marshall, W.S. & H.C. Severin. 1906. Archiv. Fur Biontologie Berlin 1:215-244, pl. 18-23   >> Note: anatomy >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1907. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. II. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Clitumnini, Lonchodini, Bacunculini). Phasmiden:337   >> Diapheromera femorata
  • La Baume. 1908. Z. wiss. Insektenbiol. 4:55   >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Severin, H.H.P. & H.C. Severin. 1910. Journ. Economic Ent. 3(6):479   >> Note: egg emergence >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Severin, H.H.P. 1910. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 3(2):83   >> Note: egg structure >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Severin, H.H.P. & H.C. Severin. 1911. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 4:187   >> Note: egg hatching >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Severin, H.H.P. & H.C. Severin. 1911. Journ. Economic Ent. 4(3):307   >> Note: life history >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Severin, H.H.P. & H.C. Severin. 1911. Psyche 1911:121   >> Note: rearing >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1911[1910]. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 62:587   >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Corfe. 1912. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 8 9:350 >> Note: Growth >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Meissner. 1912. Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift 6:186   >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Meissner. 1912. Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift 6:154   >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Severin, H.H.P. & H.C. Severin. 1913. Ent. News 24:14   >> Note: effects of temp. on moulting >> Diapheromera fmorata
  • Somes. 1916. Ent. News 27:270   >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Hutchins. 1920. Canadian Entomologist 52(9):241, pl. 7 >> Note: in Ottawa, Canada >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Morse, A.P. 1920. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 35(6):322 >> Note: in New England >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Blatchley. 1920. Orthoptera of Northeastern America: with especial reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida 133, figs 54ab-55   >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Hebard. 1925. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 77:43   >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Essig. 1926. Insects of western North America 108 >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Hebard. 1931. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 83:131   >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Hebard. 1935. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 87:50   >> Note: note >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Polak. 1939. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 27:164, fig >> Note: Egg >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Yasumatsu. 1942. Bulletin of Takarazuka Insectarium 18:5, figs. >> Note: egg structure >> Diapheromera (Diapheromera) femorata
  • Ball, Tinkham, Flock & Vorhies. 1942. Technical Bulletin of the University of Arizona 93:273 >> Note: in Arizona >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Hebard. 1943. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 68:304   >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Teale. 1947. Near Horizons. The story of an Insect Garden 256, figs. >> Diapheromera (Diapheromera) femorata
  • Tinkham. 1948. American Midland Naturalist 40(3):562   >> Note: notes >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Milliron. 1950. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 52(1):47 >> Note: egg parasite [Hymenoptera: Cleptidae] >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Ebner. 1961[1960]. Verhandlungen XI Internationaler Kongress fuer Entomologie Wien 196:32 >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Wilson, L.F. 1964. USDA Forest Pest leaflet 82:1 >> Note: notes >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Oatman. 1965. Journ. Economic Ent. 58:587 >> Note: pest >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Knauer & Giese. 1970. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 63(1):341 >> Note: distribution >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Hodson. 1972. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 65(4):876-882 >> Note: distribution and abundance >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Arnold. 1973. Proc. Okla. Acad. Sci. 53:107   >> Note: in Oklahoma >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Sellick. 1976. Systematic Entomology 1:100   >> Note: description egg >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Bedford. 1978. Annual Review of Entomology 23:126   >> Note: Comments on egg >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Sellick. 1980. University of London, Unpublished thesis 39   >> Note: Egg [invalid - unpublished thesis] >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Vanschuytbroeck & Cools. 1981. Bull. Inst. r. Sci. nat. Belg. 53(23):2   >> Note: In ISNB coll >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Vickery & Kevan. 1983. Mem. Lyman ent. Mus. Res. Lab. No. 13:296, fig >> Diapheromera (Diapheromera) femorata
  • Carlberg. 1983. Biol. Zent.bl. 102:445 >> Note: variations in postembryonic development >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Brock. 1985. PSG Newsletter 24:6 >> Note: rearing >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Arnett. 1985. American insects: a handbook of the insects of America north of Mexico. First edition. 114, fig. >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Brock. 1985. The Phasmid Rearer’s Handbook (Stick Insects and Leaf Insects) 31 >> Note: Rearing >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Vickery & Kevan. 1986. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada. Part 14. The Grasshoppers, Crickets and Related Insects of Canada and Adjacent Regions 14:58 >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Carlberg. 1986. Zool. Anz. 216(1/2):1 >> Note: Biology >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Helfer. 1987. How to know the grasshoppers, crickets, cockroaches and their allies 23, fig. 32 >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Baccetti. 1987[1986]. In Mazzini & Scali [Ed.]. Stick Insects: Phylogeny and reproduction. Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Stick Insects, Siena 117 >> Note: Spermatozoa >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Carlberg. 1987. Z. Versuchstierkd. 29:48 >> Note: Culturing phasmids for experiments >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Carlberg. 1987. Zool. Jb. Syst. 114:47 >> Note: Ovarian structure >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Saure. 1988. Stuttgarter Beiträge Naturkunde Serie A [Biologie] A 413:1   >> Note: Musculature of abdominal segments IV and V >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Kevan. 1990. Lyman Ent. and Research Lab. 16:23 >> Note: in list of adventive and captive alien orthopteroid insects in Canada >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Brock. 1992. Rearing and studying stick and leaf insects. The Amateur Entomologist Volume 22 13, 24, figs   >> Note: Rearing >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Schulten. 1995. Wandelnde Blätter, Stab- und Gespenstschrecken 3:29, figs.   >> Note: rearing >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Crosby-Clark. 1995. Phasmid Studies 4(1):8   >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Otte. 1997. In Poole & Gentili [Ed.]. Nomina Insecta Nearctica. A check list of the insects of North America. Volume 4 Non-holometabolous orders 638   >> Diapheromera femoratum
  • Sellick. 1998. Systematic Entomology 23:213   >> Note: Micropylar plate >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Lipinski, Greven, Schulten & Löser. 1999. Die Struktur der Eihüllen von 48 Phasmatodea-Arten aus der Sammlung des Löbbecke Museum und Aquazoo Düsseldorf 14, figs   >> Note: egg structure >> Diapheromera (Diapheromera) femorata
  • Zompro. 2001. Revue suisse de Zoologie 108(1):210   >> Diapheromera (Diapheromera) femorata
  • Stidham, J.A. & T.A. Stidham. 2001. Insecta Mundi 15(1):36   >> Note: in list of phasmids from Texas >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Baker, G.T. & Chandrapatya. 2001. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 103(4):849   >> Note: Chorion >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Baxter. 2002. Rearing Stick and Leaf Insects 45, figs   >> Note: rearing >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Gregory. 2002. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80(7):1303   >> Note: genome size >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Brock. 2003. In Gale Research Staff. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Insects 227, fig. 5, 230   >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Brock. 2003. Rearing and studying stick and leaf insects. The Amateur Entomologist Volume 22 14   >> Note: rearing >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Whiting, M.F., Bradler & Maxwell. 2003. Nature 421(6920):265   >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 121   >> Diapheromera (Diapheromera) femorata
  • Arment [Ed.]. 2006. Stick Insects of the Continental United States and Canada: species and early studies 21   >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Evans. 2007. National Wildlife Federation field guide to insects and spiders of North America 105, fig   >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Buckley, Attanayake & Bradler. 2009[2008]. Proc. R. Soc. B. 276:1058   >> Note: In Phylogenetic tree >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Harman. 2011. PSG Newsletter 125:10   >> Note: PSG culture stock origin >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Baker, E. W. 2015. Agric & Food Secur 4(22):7   >> Note: pest status >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Shelomi, Sitepu, Boundy-Mills & Kimsey. 2015. Jour. of Orthoptera Res. 24(1):2   >> Note: anatomical studies >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Marshall, S.A. 2017. Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity: With a Photographic Guide to Insects of Eastern North America. 2nd Edition 64, 70, fig   >> Note: on oaks >> Diapheromera femorata
  • López-Mora & Llorente-Bousquets. 2018. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 89:48   >> Note: in checklist of species from Mexico >> Diapheromera (Diapheromera) femorata
  • Miskelly & Paiero. 2019. ZooKeys 819:264   >> Note: in Canada >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Tihelka, C. Cai, Giacomelli, Pisani & Donoghue. 2020. R. Soc. Open Sci. 7(201689):3, fig   >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Liu, H. 2021. J Appl Entomol 00:1   >> Note: Biology and ecology >> Diapheromera femorata
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 233, 512, figs   >> Note: Species account; checklist of world species >> Diapheromera (Diapheromera) femorata
  • Luna. 2022. Phasmid Studies 21:92   >> Note: Checklist of North American phasmids >> Diapheromera (Diapheromera) femorata
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, Northeastern U.S.A., New York, Niagra Falls
  • Kind of type:  syntypes
  • Specimen category:  Male, Female
  • Status of type:  lost

• synonym betulla (Taylor, 1862)
• synonym laevissimus (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907)
• synonym linearis (Gosse, 1859)
• synonym sayi Gray, 1835

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