Genus Tropidoderus Gray, 1835

Museums

Regional Maps

• 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 and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

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

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)