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species Xeroderus kirbyi Gray, 1835

• Nomenclatural details:   Justified emendation (Incorrect original spelling is kirbii)
• Common name(s):  Kirby's Stick-insect
• Images: (22) See all images

  specimen

• Distribution:
  •  Australia: south-east and northern Queensland, New South Wales (possibly Northern Territory)
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (25):
  • Gray, G.R. 1835. Synopsis of the species of insects belonging to the family of Phasmidae 32   >> Note: Original incorrect spelling, see Gray 1837 >> Xeroderus kirbii
  • Gray, G.R. 1837. Charlesworth's Magazine of natural history and journal of zoology, botany, mineralogy, geology and meteorology 1(1):144   >> Note: justified emendation of the original incorrect spelling [Brock pers comm. - I was unaware of this paper until 2017, apparently also some other authors, hence the species has mainly been listed as kirbii up to 2017] >> Xeroderus kirbyi    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4476
  • Burmeister. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie 2:582   >> Xeroderus kirbii
  • de Haan. 1842. In Temminck [Ed.]. Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Nederlansche Overzeesche Bezittingen 3:116   >> Xeroderus kirbii
  • Westwood. 1859. Catalogue of the orthopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. 102, pl. 31:6-7   >> Xeroderus kirbii
  • Rainbow. 1897. Records of the Australian Museum, Sydney 3:39   >> Xeroderus kirbii
  • Tepper. 1903. Transactions of the Royal Society of Southern Australia 26:286   >> Prisopus kirbyi    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4475
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:383   >> Xeroderus kirbii
  • Redtenbacher. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. III. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). 3:358   >> Xeroderus kirbyi
  • Günther. 1929. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum, Berlin 14:622 >> Xeroderus kirbyi
  • Handlirsch. 1930. In Kükenthal & Krumbach [Ed.]. Handbuch der Zoologie, Vol. 4 754, fig >> Note: Wing >> Xeroderus kirbyi
  • Vickery. 1983. CSIRO Australian division of Entomology, Technical Paper No 20 11   >> Xeroderus kirbii
  • Rentz. 1996. Grasshopper country. The abundant orthopteroid insects of Australia. Orthoptera; grasshoppers, katydids, crickets. Blattodea; cockroaches. Mantodea; mantids. Phasmatodea; stick insects. 256, pl. 419   >> Xeroderus kirbii
  • Balderson, Rentz & Roach. 1998. In Houston & A. Wells [Ed.]. Zoological Catalog of Australia. Vol. 23. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera 376 >> Xeroderus kirbii
  • Herwaarden. 1998. Science in New Guinea 24(2):93   >> Xeroderus kirbii
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 342   >> Xeroderus kirbii
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography 1570:75   >> Xeroderus kirbii
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2009. The Complete Field Guide to Stick and Leaf Insects of Australia 18, 37, 145, figs.   >> Xeroderus kirbii
  • Hasenpusch & Brock. 2009. Butterfly & Other Invertebrates Club Inc. Newsletter 53:8, figs >> Note: egg; habits >> Xeroderus kirbii
  • Velonà, Brock, Hasenpusch & B. Mantovani. 2015. Zootaxa 3957(4):458   >> Note: DNA barcoding >> Xeroderus kirbii
  • Rudolf & Brock. 2017. In IUCN. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017 e.T80228941A80229014   >> Note: Red List - Least Concern >> Xeroderus kirbii
  • Williams, G. 2020. The Invertebrate World of Australia’s Subtropical Rainforests   >> Xeroderus kirbii
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids pl. 17.1, 498, 561, fig   >> Note: Species account; checklist of world species >> Xeroderus kirbyi
  • Brock & Coupland. 2022. Phasmid Studies 21:72   >> Note: in list of species potentially likely in Springbrook, Binna Burra or surrounds >> Xeroderus kirbyi
  • Brock & Hennemann. 2023. Zootaxa 5258(5):446, figs. 1–2, 4–6   >> Note: Lectotype designation >> Xeroderus kirbyi

• synonym kirbii Gray, 1835
• synonym plana (Sjöstedt, 1918)

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