Phasmida Species File (Version 5.0/5.0)        Home       Search       Taxa       Key       Help       Wiki

Taxa hierarchy  

species Spinotectarchus acornutus (Hutton, 1899)

• Common name(s):  The Spiny Ridge-backed Stick Insect
• Images: (9) See all images

  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  New Zealand
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (21):
  • Hutton, F.W. 1899. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Wellington 31:52   >> Pachymorpha acornuta    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:241
  • Tepper. 1903. Transactions of the Royal Society of Southern Australia 26:279   >> Pachymorpha acornuta
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:342   >> Pachymorpha acornuta
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1907. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. II. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Clitumnini, Lonchodini, Bacunculini). Phasmiden:214   >> Pachymorpha acornuta
  • Wise. 1977. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 11:51   >> Pachymorpha acornuta
  • Sellick. 1980. University of London, Unpublished thesis 78, fig. 39   >> Note: Egg [unpublished thesis] >> Micrarchus acornutus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:501065
  • Salmon. 1991. The stick insects of New Zealand 111 (and 36) >> Note: Design. type species of Spinotectarchus >> Spinotectarchus acornutus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:240
  • Nicholls, Urquhart, J.B. Ward & Johns. 1998. Rec. Cant. Mus. 12(2):30   >> Note: Syntypes in Canterbury Museum >> Spinotectarchus acornutus
  • Sellick. 1998. Systematic Entomology 23:219   >> Note: Micropylar plate >> Spinotectarchus acornutus
  • Jewell & Brock. 2003[2002]. Jour. of Orthoptera Res. 11(2):192   >> Spinotectarchus acornutus
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 325   >> Spinotectarchus acornutus
  • Trewick & Morgan-Richards. 2005. Reed Children's Books 17, fig   >> Spinotectarchus acornutus
  • Trewick, Morgan-Richards & L.J. Collins. 2008. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48(3):802   >> Note: Phylogenetic analysis >> Spinotectarchus acornutus
  • Trewick & Morgan-Richards. 2014. NZ Wildlife. Introducing the weird and wonderful character of natural New Zealand 117, fig   >> Spinotectarchus acornutus
  • Buckley, Hitchmough, Rolfe & Stringer. 2014. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 15 3   >> Note: Not Threatened >> Spinotectarchus acornutus
  • Brock. 2015. PSG Newsletter 134:12   >> Note: in Wellington area >> Spinotectarchus acornutus
  • Brock & Jewell. 2015. PSG Newsletter 134:13   >> Spinotectarchus acornutus
  • Dennis, A.B., Dunning, B.J. Sinclair & Buckley. 2015. Sci. Rep. 5(13965):3   >> Note: cold adaptation >> Spinotectarchus acornutus
  • Trewick & Morgan-Richards. 2019. Wild Life New Zealand. 2nd Edition 122   >> Spinotectarchus acornutus
  • O'Hanlon, B.R. Jones & Bulbert. 2020. The Science of Nature 107(34):2, fig   >> Spinotectarchus acornutus
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 556   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Spinotectarchus acornutus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Australasia, New Zealand, New Zealand North I, Great Barrier Island
  • Kind of type:  syntypes
  • Specimen category:  Male, Female
  • Location of type:  CMNZ Christchurch

	Home       Search       Taxa       Key       Help       Wiki      |      Top of page
Copyright © 2025.  Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.