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genus Pachymorpha Gray, 1835

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• Distribution:
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   Australia - others including Africa, Madagascar, Asia in error and require transfer to other genera
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (35):
  • Gray, G.R. 1835. Synopsis of the species of insects belonging to the family of Phasmidae 21   >> Pachymorpha    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:187
  • Audinet-Serville. 1838[1839]. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Orthoptères 258   >> Pachymorpha
  • Blanchard. 1840. In Castelnau [Ed.]. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthoptères, Néuroptères, Hémiptères, Hymenoptères, Lépidoptères et Diptères 16   >> Pachymorpha
  • Westwood. 1859. Catalogue of the orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. 15   >> Pachymorpha
  • Stål. 1875. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 32:11   >> Pachymorpha
  • Stål. 1875. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 3(14):8   >> Pachymorpha
  • Kirby, W.F. 1890. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society 6:569   >> Note: List of references pre-1840 >> Pachymorpha
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1893. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria, Genova (2)13(33):95   >> Note: subdivision only >> Pachymorpha
  • Rainbow. 1897. Records of the Australian Museum, Sydney 3:37   >> Pachymorpha
  • Hutton, F.W. 1898. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Wellington 30:161   >> Pachymorpha
  • Hutton, F.W. 1899. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Wellington 31:52   >> Pachymorpha
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:342   >> Note: Bacillinae >> Pachymorpha
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:341   >> Hemipachymorpha
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1907. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. II. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Clitumnini, Lonchodini, Bacunculini). Phasmiden:212   >> Pachymorpha
  • Karny. 1923. Treubia 3(2):235   >> Pachymorpha
  • Günther. 1929. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum, Berlin 14:615 >> Note: Phasmidae: Pachymorphinae
  • Bradley, J.C. & Galil. 1977. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 79(2):184   >> Note: Pachymorphinae: Pachymorphini >> Pachymorpha
  • Sellick. 1979. Systematic Entomology 4:331   >> Note: Key to eggs of genera [figs without reference to species] >> Pachymorpha
  • Vickery. 1983. CSIRO Australian division of Entomology, Technical Paper No 20 9   >> Pachymorpha
  • Sellick. 1997. Systematic Entomology 22:118   >> Note: Key to eggs of genera [but figs often without reference to species] >> Pachymorpha
  • Balderson, Rentz & Roach. 1998. In Houston & A. Wells [Ed.]. Zoological Catalog of Australia. Vol. 23. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera 373
  • Harman. 2000[1999]. Phasmid Studies 8(1&2):17   >> Note: Recorded from Fiji, New Zealand, Australia >> Pachymorpha
  • Bragg. 2001. Phasmids of Borneo 639   >> Note: type species data >> Pachymorpha
  • Zompro. 2004. Revision of the genera of the Areolatae, including the status of Timema and Agathemera (Insecta, Phasmatodea) 316   >> Note: type species data >> Pachymorpha
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 243   >> Pachymorpha
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 152   >> Hemipachymorpha
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography 1570:48, 71   >> Pachymorpha
  • Chen, S.C. & Y.H. He. 2008. Phasmatodea of China 205   >> Pachymorpha
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2009. The Complete Field Guide to Stick and Leaf Insects of Australia 33, 157   >> Note: key to Australian species >> Pachymorpha
  • Buckley, Attanayake & Bradler. 2009[2008]. Proc. R. Soc. B. 276:1058   >> Note: In Phylogenetic tree >> Pachymorpha
  • Seow-Choen. 2016. A taxonomic guide to the stick insects of Borneo 258   >> Pachymorpha
  • Williams, G. 2020. The Invertebrate World of Australia’s Subtropical Rainforests 30, pl. 67   >> Pachymorpha
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 557   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Pachymorpha
  • Coupland. 2022. Phasmid Studies 21:11, fig   >> Note: sp. >> Pachymorpha
  • Xie, Wen, W. Chen, Z.Z. Wang & Qian. 2023. Zootaxa 5232(4):567 >> Note: not in China >> Pachymorpha
• Scrutiny:
  • Brock, 2022, Genus comprises Australian spp only, of which several more are in need of formal description (two in press, Feb 2022). Other spp. from outside Australia belong to other genera
• Type species:  Phasma squalidus Gray, G.R. (= Pachymorpha squalida), by original monotypy
• The first family-group name based on this genus is Pachymorphae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893.

• species carli (Günther, 1937)
• species congensis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907
• species darnis (Westwood, 1859)
• species madagassa Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907
• species meruensis Sjöstedt, 1909
• species pearsoni Brock, 2022
• species sansibarica Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907
• species simplicipes Audinet-Serville, 1838
• synonym pasithoe (Westwood, 1859)
• species spinosa Brock & Hasenpusch, 2007
• species springbrookensis Brock & Coupland, 2022
• species squalida (Gray, 1833)
• species staeli (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893)

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