Species Ctenomorpha marginipennis Gray, 1833

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• Ctenomorpha marginipennis Gray, G.R. 1833. The Entomology of Australia in a Series of Monographs. The monograph of the genus Phasma. London : Longman & Co. Part 1 28 pp. 8 pls. [27].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM 623 ♂ adult (number unknown), Australia.
• Diura chronus Gray, G.R. 1833. The Entomology of Australia in a Series of Monographs. The monograph of the genus Phasma. London : Longman & Co. Part 1 28 pp. 8 pls. [26].

  Type data:

   Lectotype whereabouts unknown ♀ adult, locality unknown.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Key, K.H.L. 1960. Proposed addition of certain generic and specific names in the family Phasmatidae (Class Insecta, Order Phasmatodea) to the Official Lists and Indexes. Z.N. (S) 1167. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 17: 235-240 [236] (selected from specimens figured by Gray).
• Lopaphus macrotegmus Tepper, J.G.O. 1887. Description of a supposed new species of Phasmidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 9: 112-113 pl. vi [112].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA ♂ ♀ adults and juvs (number unknown), Mt Lofty and Balhannah, SA.
• Acrophylla tasmaniensis Lea, A.M. 1902. Notes on some remarkable Tasmanian invertebrates. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1902: 81-82 [81].

  Type data:

   Holotype TMH ♀ adult, Burnie, TAS.
• Acrophylla oxyacantha Redtenbacher, J. in Brunner von Wattenwyl, K. & Redtenbacher, J. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. Lfg 3: (Schluss: Phasmidae anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophylini, Necrosciini). Leipzig : Verlag Engelmann pp. 339-589 12 pls. [457].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMH ♀ nymph (whereabouts and number of remaining syntypes unknown), Moreton Bay (as Moreton-Bai) QLD, Sydney NSW and TAS.
• Acrophylla phyllocerca Redtenbacher, J. in Brunner von Wattenwyl, K. & Redtenbacher, J. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. Lfg 3: (Schluss: Phasmidae anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophylini, Necrosciini). Leipzig : Verlag Engelmann pp. 339-589 12 pls. [457].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHMW ♂ ♀ adults (number unknown), Adelaide, SA, Melbourne, VIC and New Zealand (as Neu-Seeland).
• Acrophylla scutigera Redtenbacher, J. in Brunner von Wattenwyl, K. & Redtenbacher, J. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. Lfg 3: (Schluss: Phasmidae anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophylini, Necrosciini). Leipzig : Verlag Engelmann pp. 339-589 12 pls. [457].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) OLML ♂ ♀ adults (number unknown), Melbourne and Australia; NMV ♂ ♀ adults (number unknown), Melbourne and Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Westwood, J.O. 1859. Catalogue of Orthopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Phasmidae. London : British Museum 184 pp. 48 pls. [114]
• Vickery, V.R. 1983. Catalogue of Australian stick insects (Phasmida, Phasmatodea, Phasmatoptera, or Cheleutoptera). CSIRO Aust. Div. Entomol. Tech. Pap. No. 20. 15 pp.
• Brock, P.D. & Hasenpusch, J. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography. Zootaxa 1570: 1-81 [73] (confirm synonymy)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, herbivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Male volant and mesopterous, female brachypterous.

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