• Tropidoderinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. 1893. Révision du système des Orthoptères et description des espèces rapportées par M. Leonardo Fea de Birmanie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2a 13: 1-230 [published September].

  Type genus:

   Tropidoderus Gray, 1835.

History of changes

• Tropidoderini Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. 1893. Révision du système des Orthoptères et description des espèces rapportées par M. Leonardo Fea de Birmanie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2a 13: 1-230 [published September].

History of changes

• Lysicles Stål, C. 1877. Espèces nouvelles de Phasmides. Bulletin ou Comptes-rendus des Séances de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 20: lxii-lxviii [lxiv].

  Type species:

   Lysicles hippolytus Stål, 1877 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

History of changes

• Lysicles hippolytus Stål, C. 1877. Espèces nouvelles de Phasmides. Bulletin ou Comptes-rendus des Séances de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 20: lxii-lxviii [lxv].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM ♀ adult (not reported by Sjöstedt, Y. 1933. Orthopterentypen im Naturhistonschen Reichsmuseum zu Stockholm. 7. Phasmidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 25A(16): 1–10 or located 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. [8]), Peak Downs, QLD.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Burt Plain (BRT), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Herbivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Male volant and mesopterous, female brachypterous.

History of changes

• Anophelepis periphanes 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. [70].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Lysicles periphanes (Westwood, 1859). —
  Brock, P.D. & Hasenpusch, J. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography. Zootaxa 1570: 1-81 [74]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Herbivore.

History of changes

• Malandania Sjöstedt, Y. 1918. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 17. Mantidae and Phasmidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 11(19): 1-61 1 pl. [48].

  Type species:

   Malandania pulchra Sjöstedt, 1918 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

History of changes

• Malandania pulchra Sjöstedt, Y. 1918. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 17. Mantidae and Phasmidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 11(19): 1-61 1 pl. [49].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM ♀ adult, Malanda, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Herbivore.

History of changes

• Micropodacanthus Brock, P.D. & Hasenpusch, J. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography. Zootaxa 1570: 1-81 [54].

  Type species:

   Micropodacanthus sztrakai Brock & Hasenpusch, 2007 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Wet Tropics (WT) ; Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

• Micropodacanthus mouldsi Brock, P.D. & Hasenpusch, J. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography. Zootaxa 1570: 1-81 [55].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM female, Australia, n[orth] Q[ueensland], Windsor Tableland, NW of Mossman.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Rainforest.

History of changes

• Micropodacanthus sztrakai Brock, P.D. & Hasenpusch, J. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography. Zootaxa 1570: 1-81 [58].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM female, Australia, north Queensland, Kuranda.
  Paratype(s) QM 1 male, same data as for holotype.

Distribution

IBRA

Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

• Micropodacanthus tweedae Brock, P.D. & Coupland, R.M. 2022. Studying the phasmids of Springbrook Mountain, Binna Burra and surrounds, southeast Queensland. Phasmid Studies 21: 15-74 [56-61].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T246616 ♀, Ankida Nature Refuge, Queensland [28.18°S, 153.26°E].

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

History of changes

• Parapodacanthus Brock, P.D. 2003. Rearing and Studying Stick and Leaf Insects. The Amateur Entomologists' Society, Orpington, The Amateur Entomologist Vol. 22 89 pp. + 8 pls.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

• Parapodacanthus ailaketoae Brock, P.D. & Monteith, G.B. 2018. A striking new species of Parapodacanthus Brock (Phasmida: Phasmatidae) from southeastern Queensland. Australian Entomologist 45(1): 17-26.

  Type data:

   Holotype QMBA T244503 ♀, Binna Burra, Lamington National Park, Queensland [28.194°S, 153.187°E].

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

History of changes

• Parapodacanthus hasenpuschorum Brock, 2003.

History of changes

• Paratropidoderus Brock, P.D. & Hasenpusch, J. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography. Zootaxa 1570: 1-81 [60].

  Type species:

   Paratropidoderus spinosus Brock & Hasenpusch, 2007 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Cobar Peneplain (CP), Mulga Lands (ML)

History of changes

• Paratropidoderus spinosus Brock, P.D. & Hasenpusch, J. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography. Zootaxa 1570: 1-81 [61].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC male, Australia, Queensland, 6 km. SE by E of Bundeema H.S.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 1 male, Qld, Cunnamulla (aerodrome); ANIC 1 male, Qld, 9 ml. WNW of Thargomindah; ANIC 2 male (juvenile), New South Wales, 6 km W of Cobar.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Cobar Peneplain (CP), Mulga Lands (ML)

History of changes

• Podacanthus 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. [17].

  Type species:

   Podacanthus typhon Gray, 1833 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal

History of changes

• Podacanthus keyi Brock, P.D. & Hasenpusch, J. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography. Zootaxa 1570: 1-81 [64].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC male, Western Australia, Perth, Floreat Park.
  Paratype(s) ANIC numerous males and females, scattered SA & WA; BMNH [18]53-50 1 female, WA, Swan River; 1 female, WA, Mandurah north.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA

SA, WA: Jarrah Forest (JF), Nullarbor (NUL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

History of changes

• Podacanthus typhon 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 BMNH 40.4.2.1304 ♀ adult, Sydney (as Port Jackson), NSW.

  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 [235].
• Podacanthus unicolor Charpentier, T. 1845. Orthoptera descripta et depicta. Leipzig : Lipsiae ii, vi 120 pp. 60 pls. [46].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ZMB adult(s), ♂ described (number and sex unknown), Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Vickery, V.R. 1983. Catalogue of Australian stick insects (Phasmida, Phasmatodea, Phasmatoptera, or Cheleutoptera). CSIRO Aust. Div. Entomol. Tech. Pap. No. 20. 15 pp. [10]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, herbivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Male and female volant.

History of changes

• Podacanthus viridiroseus 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. [43].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♀ adult, Australia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, herbivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Male and female volant.

History of changes

• Podacanthus wilkinsoni Macleay, W.J. 1882. On a species of the Phasmatidae destructive to eucalypti. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 6: 536-539 [538].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC ♂ adult, Jenolan Caves (as Binda Caves), NSW.

  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 [235].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, herbivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Male and female volant.

General References

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 (pest status)

History of changes

• Tropidoderus 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. [31] [nom. nov. for Trigonoderus Gray, 1833].
• Trigonoderus 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] [junior homonym of Trigonoderus Westwood, 1829 (Hymenoptera)].

  Type species:

   Trigonoderus childreni Gray, 1833 by monotypy.
• Athertonia Sjöstedt, Y. 1918. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 17. Mantidae and Phasmidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 11(19): 1-61 1 pl. [45].

  Type species:

   Athertonia prasina Sjöstedt, 1918 by monotypy.
• Kimberleyana Sjöstedt, Y. 1918. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 17. Mantidae and Phasmidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 11(19): 1-61 1 pl. [46].

  Type species:

   Kimberleyana gracilifemur Sjöstedt, 1918 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Vickery, V.R. 1983. Catalogue of Australian stick insects (Phasmida, Phasmatodea, Phasmatoptera, or Cheleutoptera). CSIRO Aust. Div. Entomol. Tech. Pap. No. 20. 15 pp. [11]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal

History of changes

• Trigonoderus childrenii 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:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 3♀ adults, Australia.
• Diura typhaeus 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:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ adult, Australia.
• Tropidoderus iodomus McCoy, F. 1882. Natural History of Victoria. Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria; or, figures and descriptions of the living species of all classes of the Victorian indigenous animals. Melbourne : Government Printer. 1 Decade 37 pp. 7 pls. [33].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV ♀ adults (number unknown), Beaconsfield, Dandenong Range and near Melbourne, VIC.
• Tropidoderus decipiens Rainbow, W.J. 1897. Description of two new Australian Phasmas, together with a synopsis of the Phasmidae of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 3(2): 34-37 [36].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀ adult, Gordon (Sydney suburb), NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Vickery, V.R. 1983. Catalogue of Australian stick insects (Phasmida, Phasmatodea, Phasmatoptera, or Cheleutoptera). CSIRO Aust. Div. Entomol. Tech. Pap. No. 20. 15 pp. [11]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, herbivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Male and female macropterous.

History of changes

• Kimberleyana gracilifemur Sjöstedt, Y. 1918. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 17. Mantidae and Phasmidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 11(19): 1-61 1 pl. [47].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM 3♀ adults, Noonkanbah, WA and QLD.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, herbivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Male and female macropterous.

History of changes

• Tropidoderus michaelseni Werner, F. 1912. Mantodea und Phasmodea. pp. 47-56 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Sudwest-Australiens. Jena : Verlag Gustav Fischer Vol. 4. [55].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH ♀ adult, Subiaco, Perth, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, herbivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Male and female macropterous.

General References

Brock, P.D. & Hasenpusch, J. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography. Zootaxa 1570: 1-81 [75] (revised status, removed from synonymy with T. childrenii (Gray, 1833))

History of changes

• Athertonia prasina Sjöstedt, Y. 1918. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 17. Mantidae and Phasmidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 11(19): 1-61 1 pl. [46].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM ♀ adult, Atherton, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, herbivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Male and female macropterous.

History of changes

• Tropidoderus rhodomus McCoy, F. 1882. Natural History of Victoria. Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria; or, figures and descriptions of the living species of all classes of the Victorian indigenous animals. Melbourne : Government Printer. 1 Decade 37 pp. 7 pls. [35].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♀ adult, Inglewood, VIC.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, herbivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Male and female macropterous.

History of changes

• Didymuria Kirby, W.F. 1904. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. Orthoptera, Euplexoptera, Cursoria, et Gressoria (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae). London : Longmans & Co. Vol. 1 x 501 pp. [381] [nom. nov. for Diura Gray, 1833].
• Diura 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. [19] [junior homonym of Diura Billberg, 1820 (Neuroptera)].

  Type species:

   Phasma violescens Leach, 1814 by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Lord Howe Island
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

History of changes

• Phasma violescens Leach, W.E. 1814. The Zoological Miscellany; being descriptions of new or interesting animals. London : E. Nodder & Son Vol. 1 144 pp. 60 pls. [26].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂ adult (Vickery, V.R. 1983. Catalogue of Australian stick insects (Phasmida, Phasmatodea, Phasmatoptera, or Cheleutoptera). CSIRO Aust. Div. Entomol. Tech. Pap. No. 20. 15 pp. [5] states "There is a specimen in drawer RB4, Curtis collection, NMVM, Melbourne, labelled Diura Gray violascens Lea[ch], presumably by Gray"), Australia (as Australasia).
• Diura roseipennis 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:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, Australia.
• Cyphocrania violascens Burmeister, H. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie. Berlin : T.C.F. Enslin Vol. 2(2) 1050 pp. [580].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB 2♂ ♀ adults, Australia.
• Diura discolor 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. [382].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHMW ♂ ♀ adults (number unknown), Australia, TAS and Lord Howe Is.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Vickery, V.R. 1983. Catalogue of Australian stick insects (Phasmida, Phasmatodea, Phasmatoptera, or Cheleutoptera). CSIRO Aust. Div. Entomol. Tech. Pap. No. 20. 15 pp. [5]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Kanmantoo (KAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, herbivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Male volant and mesopterous, female flightless and mesopterous.

History of changes

• Diura virginea Stål, C. 1875. Recensio Orthopterorum. Stockholm : Norstedt & Soner Vol. 3 pp. 4-105. [84] [revised status, removed from synonymy with D. violescens (Leach, 1814)].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM ♀ adult, Cape York, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

History of changes