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species Phraortes elongatus (Thunberg, 1815)

• Common name(s):  Japanese Stick-insect
• Images: (33) See all images

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• Distribution:
  •  Japan, Korea (possibly China if synonymy correct)
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (21):
  • Thunberg. 1815. Mémoires de L'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg 5:299   >> Phasma elongata    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:6424
  • Westwood. 1859. Catalogue of the orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. 183   >> Note: in notes on undetermined species >> Phasma elongata
  • Stål. 1875. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 32:64   >> Phraortes elongatus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:6423
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:319   >> Phraortes elongata
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1907. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. II. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Clitumnini, Lonchodini, Bacunculini). Phasmiden:262   >> Phraortes elongatus
  • Shiraki. 1911. Annot. zool. jpn. 7:291, 297   >> Note: in Japan >> Phraortes elongatus
  • Matsumura & Hirayama. 1932[1931]. Illustrated 6000 insects of Nippon [6000 illustrated insects of Japan-Empire] fig >> Phraortes (Lonchodes) elongatus
  • Shiraki. 1935. Mem. Fac. Sci. Agr. Taihoku Imp. Univ, Formosa 14(3):59, 61   >> Phraortes elongatus
  • Shiraki. 1952. Catalogue of injurious insects in Japan (exclusive of animal parasites) 2:5   >> Phraortes elongatus
  • Kwon, Y.J. & J.K. Kim. 1978. Nature and Life 8(2):107 >> Phraortes elongatus
  • Kwon, Y.J., Ha & C.E. Lee. 1992. Nature and Life 22(2):47 >> Note: [in error, misidentification of a 'Baculum' i.e. now Ramulus sp. - see Bragg 2001: 647] >> Baculum elongatus    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:6426
  • Bragg. 2001. Phasmids of Borneo 647   >> Note: Kwon et al 1992 a misidentification, species returned to Phraortes (valid genus) >> Phraortes elongatus
  • Park, Y-S, T-S Kwon, J.K. Kim, C.S. Kim & J.D. Park. 2003. Jour. Korean For. Soc. 92(1):62 >> Note: Effect of temperatures on development [see 1992 ref. comments - misidentification?] >> Baculum elongatus
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 271   >> Phraortes elongatus
  • Ichikawa. 2013. Battarigisu 151:2, fig >> Phraortes elongatus
  • Ichikawa. 2016. In Machida & Japan Orthopteran Society [Ed.]. The standard of Polyneoptera in Japan 192   >> Phraortes elongatus
  • Suetsugu & Tomonari. 2020. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 18(3):158   >> Note: Attempted mating with Ramulus mikado >> Phraortes elongatus
  • Toyama, Kuroki & K. Nakamura. 2021. Sociobiology 68(4):e7194   >> Phraortes illepidus
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 394, 528, fig   >> Note: Species account; checklist of world species >> Phraortes elongatus
  • Katsube, Hisasue, Nishiya, Hashizume & Mita. 2022. Pulex 101:959   >> Phraortes elongatus
  • Katsube, Hisasue & Mita. 2022. Pulex 101:963   >> Phraortes elongatus
• Scrutiny:
  • Brock, 2021, Revision needed, including a check of synonyms in this sp.
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Unknown [probably Japan]
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Female
  • Location of type:  UZIU Uppsala

• synonym illepidus (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907)
• synonym kumamotoensis Shiraki, 1935
• synonym niponense (de Haan, 1842)

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