Species Extatosoma tiaratum (Macleay, 1826)

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• Phasma tiaratum Macleay, W.S. 1826. Annulosa, Catalogue of Insects, collected by Captain King, R.N. app. B, pp. 438-469, Table B in King, P.P. (ed.). Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822; with Appendix B. London : John Murray Vol. 2 viii 637 pp., 9 pls. [Date published 15 Apr 1826: imprint 1827] [Publication date established from Common, I.F.B. & Moulds, M.S. 1973. The date of publication of Captain Phillip King's Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 6(4): 257–259] [455].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀ adult, Australia.
• Extatosoma hopei 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. [25].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM 597 ♂ adult, Australia.
• Extatosoma bufonium Westwood, J.O. 1874. Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxoniensis: or illustrations of new, rare and interesting insects, for the most part coloured, in the collections presented to the University of Oxford by the Rev. F.W. Hope. London : McMillan & Co. xxiv 205 pp. 40 pls. [174].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM 598 ♀ juv., Australia.
• Extatosoma elongatum 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 [345].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC no reg. number ♀ (one of two known syntypes), Gosford, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) MMUS no reg. number ♀, Camden, NSW;
  Syntype(s) ANIC ♀ adult, Gosford and Camden, NSW; MMUS ♀ adult (not found by Vickery, V.R. 1983. Catalogue of Australian stick insects (Phasmida, Phasmatodea, Phasmatoptera, or Cheleutoptera). CSIRO Aust. Div. Entomol. Tech. Pap. No. 20. 15 pp. [7]), Gosford and Camden, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Brock, P.D. 2001. Studies on the Australasian stick-insect genus Extatosoma Gray (Phasmida: Phasmatidae: Tropoderinae: Extatosomatini). Journal of Orthoptera Research 10(2): 303-313 [Date published 2002].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hasenpusch, J. & Brock, P.D. 2010. Macleay's Spectre Extatosoma tiaratum - taking camouflage to an extreme. Phasmid Study Group Newsletter 121: 11 [11]
• Brock, P., Büscher, T. & Baker, E. 2023. Phasmida Species File Online. http://phasmida.speciesfile.org (Species Extatosoma tiaratum (Macleay, 1826); accessed 16 Feb, 2023)

Generic Combinations

• Extatosoma tiaratum bufonium (Westwood, 1874). —
  Brock, P.D. 2001. Studies on the Australasian stick-insect genus Extatosoma Gray (Phasmida: Phasmatidae: Tropoderinae: Extatosomatini). Journal of Orthoptera Research 10(2): 303-313 [Date published 2002] [309] (new combination)
• Extatosoma tiaratum (Macleay, 1826). —
  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. [23, pl. 8:2] (new combination as type species of the genus Extatosoma (by subsequent designation))
• Extatosoma tiaratum tiaratum (Macleay, 1826). —
  Brock, P.D. 2001. Studies on the Australasian stick-insect genus Extatosoma Gray (Phasmida: Phasmatidae: Tropoderinae: Extatosomatini). Journal of Orthoptera Research 10(2): 303-313 [Date published 2002] [307]

Introduction

Two subspecies previously recognised (Brock, 2001) including nominate and Extatosoma tiaratum bufonium Westwood, 1874, however E. bufonium currently considered a synonym of E. tiaratum (Hasenpusch & Brock, 2010).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, herbivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Male volant and macropterous, female brachypterous.

General References

Balderson, J., Rentz, D.C.F. & Roach, A.M.E. 1998. Phasmatodea. pp. 347-376 in Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 23 xiii 464 pp.

Brock, P.D. 2009. Studies on the Australasian stick-insect genus Extatosoma Gray (Phasmida: Phasmatidae: Tropoderinae: Extatosomatini). Journal of Orthoptera Research 10(2): 303-313 (recognising two sub-species)

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

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

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