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species Orxines xiphias (Westwood, 1859)

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  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  Seram, Ambon, Halmahera, Moratai Island. Bacan Island, Tidor Island, Makian Island, Buru, Ambelau Island, North Sulawesi Prov., Sangihe Islands, Talaud Islands: Karakelong Island, Salibabu Island. Raja Ampar Archipelago: Waigeo Island; Misool Island, New Guinea
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (21):
  • Westwood. 1859. Catalogue of the orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. 71, pl. 4:4-5   >> Anophelepis xiphias    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:1382
  • Kaup. 1871. Berliner Entomologische Zeitung 15:19, pl. 1:10   >> Note: egg >> Anophelepis xiphias
  • Stål. 1875. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 32:87   >> Orxines xiphias    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:1381
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:368   >> Orxines
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1904. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 56:71   >> Note: designated type species >> Orxines xiphias
  • Redtenbacher. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. III. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). 3:483, pl. 25:4   >> Lamachus xiphias
  • Giglio-Tos. 1910. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della Royal Università di Torino 25(625):47   >> Note: note on specimen in Genova collection >> Lamachus xiphias
  • Günther. 1929. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum, Berlin 14:628 >> Lamachus xiphias
  • Günther. 1935[1934]. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft der Naturfreunde Freies Berlin 75-94
  • Sellick. 1980. University of London, Unpublished thesis 62   >> Note: Egg [unpublished thesis] >> Orxines xiphias
  • Hinton. 1981. Biology of insect eggs 2 534   >> Note: Egg >> Orxines xiphias
  • Vanschuytbroeck & Cools. 1981. Bull. Inst. r. Sci. nat. Belg. 53(23):8   >> Note: in RBINS coll >> Lamachus xiphias
  • Herwaarden. 1998. Science in New Guinea 24(2):69   >> Orxines xiphias
  • Zompro. 2004. Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 13:91   >> Note: Kaup's egg not traced >> Orxines xiphias
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 241   >> Orxines xiphias
  • Mandal & Yadav. 2010. Records of the Zoological Survey of India Occasional Paper 318:11   >> Note: Notes from existing literature; also in Assam (NZSI) >> Orxines xiphias
  • Harman. 2015. PSG Newsletter 135:26 >> Note: PSG culture stock notes >> Orxines xiphias
  • Brock, J.A. Marshall, Beccaloni & Harman. 2016. Zootaxa 4179(2):203   >> Note: type data >> Orxines xiphias
  • 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 >> Orxines xiphias
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 540   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Orxines xiphias
  • Hennemann & Le Tirant. 2023. Faunitaxys 11(24):18, figs 13, 14, 16C-F   >> Note: Lectotype designation >> Orxines xiphias
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Asia-Tropical, Malesia, Maluka, Ceram 'Amboina'
  • Kind of type:  lectotype
  • Specimen category:  Female
  • Location of type:  NHMUK London NH Mus.

• synonym buruensis (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907)

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