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species Tropidoderus childreni (Gray, 1833)

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• Distribution:
  •  Australia: New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (49):
  • Gray, G.R. 1833. The Entomology of Australia, in a series of monographs. Part 1 containing the monograph of the genus Phasma 18, 26 pl. 3:1   >> Note: as Phasma (Trigonoderus) childreni on p. 26 >> Phasma (Trigonoderus) childrenii subsequent misspelling    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:522696
  • Gray, G.R. 1833. The Entomology of Australia, in a series of monographs. Part 1 containing the monograph of the genus Phasma 26   >> Note: also listed as chiildrenii on an earlier page >> Phasma (Trigonoderus) childreni    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:522695
  • Gray, G.R. 1835. Synopsis of the species of insects belonging to the family of Phasmidae 31   >> Note: Gray intended childreni as the species name, but see Gray 1833: 18 which listed childrenii >> Tropidoderus childreni
  • Rainbow. 1897. Records of the Australian Museum, Sydney 3:43   >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1897. Observations on the coloration of insects. Betrachtungen über die Farbenpracht der Insecten 12, pl. 9:103   >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Westwood. 1859. Catalogue of the orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. 165   >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Burmeister. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie 2:589   >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4679
  • Tepper. 1903. Transactions of the Royal Society of Southern Australia 26:282   >> Tropidoderus childreni
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:380   >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Froggatt. 1907. Australian Insects 37   >> Tropidoderus childreni
  • Redtenbacher. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. III. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). 3:384   >> Tropidoderus childreni
  • Musgrave. 1922. Australian Museum Magazine 1(6):179, fig   >> Tropidoderus childreni
  • Lea. 1923. The South Australian Naturalist 104, fig >> Note: in South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia [Brock - in part at least] >> Tropidoderes childreni    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:501531
  • McKeown. 1940. Australian Museum Magazine 7(4):127, fig   >> Tropidoderus childreni
  • McKeown. 1945. Australian Insects. An introductory handbook, 2nd Edition 45, fig >> Tropidoderus childreni
  • Bedford. 1978. Annual Review of Entomology 23:137   >> Note: Summary of publications >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Craddock. 1972. Australian J. Zool. 20:448   >> Note: chromosomes >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Key. 1970. The Insects of Australia, A textbook for students and research workers. 1st Edition 351, fig. 22.3c >> Note: fig. of egg >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Bedford. 1968. J. Aust. ent. Soc. 7(1):82   >> Note: biology >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Bedford & Chinnick. 1966. Animal Behaviour 14:518, pl. 13:B-C   >> Note: behaviour >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Ragge. 1955. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society, London 106(9):381, fig   >> Note: Wing-venation >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Sellick. 1980. University of London, Unpublished thesis 166   >> Note: Egg [unpublished thesis] >> Tropidoderus childreni
  • Balderson, Rentz & Roach. 1998. In Houston & A. Wells [Ed.]. Zoological Catalog of Australia. Vol. 23. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera 375 >> Tropidoderus childreni subsequent misspelling
  • Rentz. 1996. Grasshopper country. The abundant orthopteroid insects of Australia. Orthoptera; grasshoppers, katydids, crickets. Blattodea; cockroaches. Mantodea; mantids. Phasmatodea; stick insects. 250, 254, pl. 409-410   >> Note: fig. of egg >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Vickery. 1983. CSIRO Australian division of Entomology, Technical Paper No 20 11   >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Sellick. 1998. Systematic Entomology 23:224   >> Note: Micropylar plate >> Tropidoderus childreni
  • Brock. 1999. Amateur Entomologist 26:124, plates   >> Note: notes; egg >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Seiler, C. & et al. 2000. Phasmiden Pflege und Zucht von Gespenstschrecken, Stabschrecken und Wandelnden Blattern im Terrarium 122, figs >> Note: rearing >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Baxter. 2002. Rearing Stick and Leaf Insects 11   >> Note: figure of egg >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Brock. 2003. Rearing and studying stick and leaf insects. The Amateur Entomologist Volume 22 65   >> Note: rearing >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Whiting, M.F., Bradler & Maxwell. 2003. Nature 421(6920):265   >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 337   >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography 1570:75   >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Trewick, Morgan-Richards & L.J. Collins. 2008. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48(3):806   >> Note: Phylogenetic analysis >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Henderson, A., D. Henderson & J. Sinclair. 2008. Bugs alive: a guide to keeping Australian invertebrates 84, figs.   >> Note: rearing >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2009. The Complete Field Guide to Stick and Leaf Insects of Australia 21, 140, figs., 179   >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Buckley, Attanayake & Bradler. 2009[2008]. Proc. R. Soc. B. 276:1058   >> Note: In Phylogenetic tree >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Harman. 2012. PSG Newsletter 129:18 >> Note: PSG culture stock origin >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Velonà, Brock, Hasenpusch & B. Mantovani. 2015. Zootaxa 3957(4):458   >> Note: DNA barcoding >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Brock, J.A. Marshall, Beccaloni & Harman. 2016. Zootaxa 4179(2):165   >> Note: type data >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Farrow. 2016. Insects of South-Eastern Australia: An Ecological and Behavioural Guide 109   >> Note: [in part i.e. the text, as fig. shows Podacanthus] >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Rudolf & Brock. 2017. In IUCN. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017 e.T80227932A80228015   >> Note: Red List - Least Concern >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Büscher, Buckley, Grohmann, Gorb & Bradler. 2018. Front. Ecol. Evol. 6:1-11   >> Note: Phylogeny and tarsal morphology >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Jones, B.R. 2020. PSG Newsletter 144:43 >> Note: Colour where wings exposed to sunlight >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • O'Hanlon, B.R. Jones & Bulbert. 2020. The Science of Nature 107(34):7, fig   >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Williams, G. 2020. The Invertebrate World of Australia’s Subtropical Rainforests 127   >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids pl. 18.1 & 43, 495, 560, fig   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Coupland. 2022. Phasmid Studies 21:8   >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
  • Brock & Coupland. 2022. Phasmid Studies 21:62, figs   >> Tropidoderus childrenii subsequent misspelling
• Scrutiny:
  • Brock, 2023, Comments kindly provided by Peter Barnard 1. Under Art. 33.4 an apparent emendation of -i to -ii (or vice versa) is an incorrect subsequent spelling and is not a justified emendation. So the original spelling must stand. 2. There are two different spellings in the original publication, so the correct one is either determined by internal evidence (which is not clear in this case) or by the first reviser principle. Here, the first reviser is Gray (1835). Almost certainly Gray (1833) intended the name to be childrenii, but he did not correct this in his subsequent paper (1835) so I think that we must regard childreni as the correct spelling. This means that all subsequent uses of childrenii are incorrect.

• synonym childrenii (Gray, 1833)
• synonym decipiens Rainbow, 1897
• synonym iodomus McCoy, 1882
• synonym typhaeus (Gray, 1833)

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