Phasmida Species File (Version 5.0/5.0)
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Data for specimen record
Identification
Current: species Eurycantha portentosa Kirby, 1904
Historical: Eurycantha portentosa; syntype of species Eurycantha portentosa Kirby, 1904; cited by Kirby, W.F. 1904. Notes on Phasmidae in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History), South Kensington, with descriptions of new species. - No. II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (7)13:429-449
Specimen
Basis of record: not specified
Counts: Females 2
Depository: NHMUK, London NH Mus.; catalog number 844957-844958
Data source: not recorded
Other: no data
Locality
Papuasia, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea: Louisiade Archipelago, Rossel Island; Modern (is included in map)
Collecting event
(No date recorded); Pres[ented] by Basil Thompson
Images      
female (syntype), copyright Natural History Museum, London
female, lateral view (syntype), copyright Natural History Museum, London
female: head and thorax, lateral view (syntype), copyright Natural History Museum, London
female: spines on hind femora (syntype), copyright Natural History Museum, London
female: end of abdomen, dorsal view (syntype), copyright Natural History Museum, London
female: end of abdomen, lateral view (syntype), copyright Natural History Museum, London
female: end of abdomen, ventral view (syntype), copyright Natural History Museum, London
female: head and thorax, ventral view (syntype), copyright Natural History Museum, London
female, data labels (syntype), copyright Natural History Museum, London
female, data labels [square label reversed](syntype), copyright Natural History Museum, London
female (syntype), copyright Natural History Museum, London
female, lateral view (syntype), copyright Natural History Museum, London
female, data labels (syntype), copyright Natural History Museum, London
female, data labels [reversed as applicable] (syntype), copyright Natural History Museum, London
Sounds      
None
Ecological relationships      
None
 
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