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species Acrophylla nubilosa Tepper, 1905

• Common name(s):  Cloudy Stick-insect
• Images: (20) See all images

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• Distribution:
  •  Australia: Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (8):
  • Tepper. 1905. Transactions of the Royal Society of Southern Australia 29:241   >> Acrophylla nubilosa    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:5348
  • Vickery. 1983. CSIRO Australian division of Entomology, Technical Paper No 20 3   >> Acrophylla nubilosa
  • Balderson, Rentz & Roach. 1998. In Houston & A. Wells [Ed.]. Zoological Catalog of Australia. Vol. 23. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera 361 >> Acrophylla nubilosa
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 41   >> Acrophylla nubilosa
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography 1570:72   >> Acrophylla nubilosa
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2009. The Complete Field Guide to Stick and Leaf Insects of Australia 92, figs., 164   >> Note: possible female >> Acrophylla nubilosa
  • Rudolf & Brock. 2017. In IUCN. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017 e.T78791060A78792117   >> Note: Red List - Least Concern >> Acrophylla nubilosa
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 557   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Acrophylla nubilosa
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Australasia, Australia, South Australia, NW South Australia
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  Male
  • Location of type:  SAM Adelaide

• synonym aliena Redtenbacher, 1908
• synonym paula Tepper, 1905

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