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subspecies Diapherodes gigantea gigantea (Gmelin, 1789)

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• Distribution:
  •  St Vincent & Grenada
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (20):
  • Gmelin. 1789. Caroli a Linné, ... Systema Naturae per Regna Tria naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, com Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis 1(4):2055 >> Note: new name for Drury’s gigas >> Mantis gigantea
  • Gray, G.R. 1835. Synopsis of the species of insects belonging to the family of Phasmidae 33   >> Diapherodes gigas
  • Westwood. 1859. Catalogue of the orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. 84   >> Diapherodes gigas
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:362   >> Diapherodes gigantea
  • Redtenbacher. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. III. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). 3:434   >> Diapherodes gigas
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1938. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 64:53   >> Diapherodes gigantea gigantea    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:490907
  • Wolcott. 1948. The insects of Puerto Rico 33:50   >> Note: notes >> Diapherodes gigantea
  • Moxey. 1972. Harvard University [unpublished thesis] 99 >> Diapherodes gigas
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 120   >> Diapherodes gigantea gigantea
  • Langlois, Lelong & Dorel. 2006. Phasmatodea of Saint Lucia 42   >> Note: in St. Lucia >> Diapherodes gigantea
  • Langlois & Lelong. 2010. Bull. Soc. entomol. Fr. 115(1):60   >> Diapherodes gigantea
  • Rabaey & Simoens. 2012. Phasma 22(84):5, figs >> Note: rearing >> Diapherodes gigantea
  • Harman. 2013. PSG Newsletter 131:12 >> Note: PSG culture stock origin >> Diapherodes gigantea
  • Jackson. 2014. PSG Newsletter 132:8, figs >> Note: development of nymphs >> Diapherodes gigantea
  • Shelomi, Sitepu, Boundy-Mills & Kimsey. 2015. Jour. of Orthoptera Res. 24(1):2   >> Note: anatomical studies >> Diapherodes gigantea
  • Hennemann, Conle & Perez-Gelabert. 2016. Zootaxa 4128(1):62   >> Note: Gigantea-group >> Diapherodes gigantea
  • Brock, J.A. Marshall, Beccaloni & Harman. 2016. Zootaxa 4179(2):172   >> Note: type data >> Diapherodes gigantea gigantea
  • Simon, Letsch, Bank, Buckley, Donath, S. Liu, Machida, Meusemann, Misof, Podsiadlowski, X. Zhou, Wipfler & Bradler. 2019. Front. Ecol. Evol. 7(345):3, fig 1i   >> Diapherodes gigantea
  • Garfield. 2022. PSG Newsletter 148:18, figs >> Note: Gynandromorph >> Diapherodes gigantea gigantea
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 252, 547, figs   >> Note: Species account; checklist of world species >> Diapherodes gigantea gigantea
• See species gigantea for additional information.
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Southern America, Caribbean, Windward Is., St.Vincent
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Female
  • Location of type:  NHMUK London NH Mus.

• synonym cornuta (Peletier de Saint Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, 1828)
• synonym gigas (Drury, 1773)

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