Bibliography for PHASMIDA

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• Brock, P.D. 2022. A new species of Pachymorpha Gray, 1835 (Phasmida: Phasmatidae) from Queensland. Phasmid Studies 21: 106-112
• Brock, P.D. & Coupland, R.M. 2022. Studying the phasmids of Springbrook Mountain, Binna Burra and surrounds, southeast Queensland. Phasmid Studies 21: 15-74
• Brock, P.D. & Hasenpusch, J. 2001. Cigarrophasma, a new genus of stick-insect (Phasmatidae) from Australia. Phasmid Studies 9(1&2): 4-10
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• Cumming, R.T., Le Tirant, S. & Teemsma, S.N. 2018. Northeastern Australia record of Nanophyllium pygmaeum Redtenbacher, 1906, now recognized as a new species, Nanophyllium australianum n. sp. (Phasmida, Phylliidae). Faunitaxys 6(9): 1-5
• Cumming, R.T. & Le Tirant, S. 2022. Three new genera and one new species of leaf insect from Melanesia (Phasmatodea, Phylliidae). ZooKeys 1110: 151-200
• Cumming R.T., Thurman J.H., Youngdale S., Tirant S.L. 2020. Walaphyllium subgen. nov., the dancing leaf insects from Australia and Papua New Guinea with description of a new species (Phasmatodea, Phylliidae). ZooKeys 939: 1-28
• Forni, G., Cussigh, A., Brock, P.D., Jones, B.R., Nicolini, F., Martelossi, J., Luchetti, A. & Mantovani, B. 2023. Taxonomic revision of the Australian stick insect genus Candovia (Phasmida: Necrosciinae): insight from molecular systematics and species-delimitation approaches. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2023 197: 189-210
• Franzman, B.A. 1974. A new sub-family of the Phasmatodea from Australia. News Bulletin, Entomological Society of Queensland 2: 63-64
• Froggatt, W.W. 1905. Notes on stick or leaf insects, with an account of Podacanthus wilkinsoni as a forest pest, and the spiny leaf insect Extatosoma tiaratum, in the orchard. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 16: 515-520
• Froggatt, W.W. 1922. Description of a new phasma belonging to the genus Extatosoma. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47: 344-345 pl. 38
• Ghirotto, V., Grispino, E., Engelking, P., Neves, P., Góis, G., & Chiquetto-Machado, P. 2022. Arumatia, a new genus of Diapheromerinae stick insects (Insecta, Phasmatodea) from Brazil, with the description of five new species and a reassessment of species misplaced in Australian genera. European Journal of Taxonomy 827: 1-85
• Giglio-Tos, E. 1912. Specie nuove di Fasmidi raccolti dal Prof. L. Schultze nella Nuova Guinea. Entomologische Rundschau 29(14): 93-94
• 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.
• Gray, G.R. 1834. Descriptions of several species of Australian Phasmata. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1: 45-46
• Gray, G.R. 1835. Synopsis of the Species of Insects Belonging to the Family of Phasmidae. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman 48 pp.
• Gray, G. R. 1837. Description of some singularly formed Orthopterous Insects. Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology and Meteorology 2(1): 141-145, figs 15-18
• Günther, K. 1931. Beiträge zur Systematik und Geschichte der Phasmoiden-fauna Ozeaniens. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 17(6): 753-835
• Günther, K. 1934. Phasmoiden und Forficuliden von Java, den Kleinen Sundainseln and Nordaustralien. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 41(34): 525-543
• Günther, K. 1953. Über die taxonomische Gliederung und die geographische Verbreitung der Insektenordnung de Phasmatodea. Beiträge zur Entomologie (Berlin) 3(5): 541-563
• Günther, K. 1956. Phasmatoptera. pp. 7-93 in Hanström, B., Brinck, P. & Rudebeck, G. (eds). South African Animal Life. Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950–1951. Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell Vol. 3.
• Gurney, A.B. 1947. Notes on some remarkable Australasian walkingsticks, including a synopsis of the genus Extatosoma (Orthoptera: Phasmatidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 40(3): 373-396
• Hasenpusch, J. & Brock, P.D. 2006. Studies on the Australian stick insect genus Ctenomorpha Gray (Phasmida: Phasmatidae: Phasmatinae), with the description of a new large species. Zootaxa 1282: 1-15
• Hasenpusch, J. & Brock, P.D. 2010. Macleay's Spectre Extatosoma tiaratum - taking camouflage to an extreme. Phasmid Study Group Newsletter 121: 11
• Hennemann, F. 2020. Megacraniinae-The Palm Stick Insects: A new subfamily of Old World Phasmatodea and a redefinition of Platycraninae Brunner v. Wattenwyl, 1893 (Phasmatodea: "Anareolatae"). Zootaxa 4896(2): 151–179
• Hennemann, F.H., Conle, O.V. & Suzuki, S. 2015. A study of the members of the tribe Phasmatini Gray, 1835, that occur within the boundaries of Wallacea (Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae: Phasmatinae: “Lanceocercata”). Zootaxa 4008: 1-74
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• Jones, B.R., Brock, P.D., Mantovani, B., Beasley-Hall, P., Yeates, D.K. & Lo, N. 2022. Integrative taxonomy of the stick insect genus Austrocarausius Brock, 2000 (Phasmatodea: Lonchodidae) reveals cryptic species in remnant Queensland rainforests. Invertebrate Systematics 36(9): 849-873
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