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species Tectarchus ovobessus Salmon, 1954

• Common name(s):  The Rough-skinned Ridge-backed Stick Insect
• Images: (47) See all images

  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  New Zealand
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (13):
  • Salmon. 1954. Transactions of the Royal Society, New Zealand 82(1):164, figs   >> Tectarchus ovobessus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:232
  • Wise. 1977. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 11:51   >> Tectarchus ovobessus
  • Sellick. 1980. University of London, Unpublished thesis 84   >> Note: Egg [unpublished thesis] >> Tectarchus ovobossus subsequent misspelling    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:501066
  • Salmon. 1991. The stick insects of New Zealand 106, fig. >> Note: egg >> Tectarchus ovobessus
  • Sellick. 1998. Systematic Entomology 23:219   >> Note: Micropylar plate >> Tectarchus ovobessus
  • Jewell & Brock. 2003[2002]. Jour. of Orthoptera Res. 11(2):192   >> Tectarchus ovobessus
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 330   >> Tectarchus ovobessus
  • Trewick, Morgan-Richards & L.J. Collins. 2008. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48(3):802   >> Note: Phylogenetic analysis >> Tectarchus ovobessus
  • Buckley, Hitchmough, Rolfe & Stringer. 2014. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 15 3   >> Note: Not Threatened >> Tectarchus ovobessus
  • Brock & Jewell. 2015. PSG Newsletter 134:13   >> Tectarchus ovobessus
  • Dennis, A.B., Dunning, B.J. Sinclair & Buckley. 2015. Sci. Rep. 5(13965):3   >> Note: cold adaptation >> Tectarchus ovobessus
  • Trewick & Morgan-Richards. 2019. Wild Life New Zealand. 2nd Edition 119   >> Tectarchus ovobessus
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 556   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Tectarchus ovobessus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Australasia, New Zealand, New Zealand North I, Lake Waikaremoana
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Female
  • Location of type:  MONZ Wellington

• synonym ovobossus Sellick, 1980

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