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species Prexaspes pholcus (Westwood, 1859)

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  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  Brazil
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (12):
  • Westwood. 1859. Catalogue of the orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. 122, 181, pl. 10:2   >> Phasma pholcus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:8155
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:414   >> Prexaspes pholcus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:8156
  • Redtenbacher. 1906. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden 1:128   >> Note: female >> Prexaspes pholcus
  • Chopard. 1911. Ann. Soc. entomol. Fr. 80:339   >> Prexaspes pholcus
  • Lelong. 1993. Le Monde des Phasmes(Special Guyane):14   >> Prexaspes pholcus
  • Zompro. 2004. Revision of the genera of the Areolatae, including the status of Timema and Agathemera (Insecta, Phasmatodea) 102   >> Prexaspes (Elasia) pholcus
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 282   >> Prexaspes (Elasia) pholcus
  • Figueiredo de Araujo & Garraffoni. 2012. EntomoBrasilis 5(3):236   >> Prexaspes (Elasia) pholcus
  • Brock, J.A. Marshall, Beccaloni & Harman. 2016. Zootaxa 4179(2):189   >> Note: type data >> Prexaspes (Elasia) pholcus
  • Chiquetto-Machado. 2019. Revisão taxonômica e análise filogenética de Paraphasma Redtenbacher, 1906 (Phasmatodea: Pseudophasmatidae: Stratocleinae). Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic analysis of Paraphasma Redtenbacher, 1906 (Phasmatodea: Pseudophasmatidae: Stratocleinae). Volume 1 & 2 117   >> Note: UNPUBLISHED THESIS >> Prexaspes (Elasia) pholcus
  • Conle, Hennemann, Bellanger, Lelong, Jourdan & Valero. 2020. Zootaxa 4814(1):69   >> Prexaspes pholcus
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 570   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Prexaspes pholcus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Southern America, Brazil, Brazil North, Pará, Santarem, Elga on the River
  • Kind of type:  syntypes
  • Specimen category:  2 Males
  • Location of type:  NHMUK London NH Mus.

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