Species Walaphyllium monteithi Brock & Hasenpusch, 2003

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• Phyllium (Phyllium) monteithi Brock, P.D. & Hasenpusch, J. 2002. Studies on the leaf insects (Phasmida: Phyllidae) of Australia. Journal of Orthoptera Research 11(2): 199-205 [Date published 2003] [200].

  Type data:

   Holotype QMBA no register number given ♂ (i.1990; J. Hasenpusch), Mt Lewis, near Julatten, north QLD, Australia.
  Paratype(s) QMBA no reg. numbers given for paratypes ♂ (3.xii.1986, A. & M. Walford-Huggins), Windsor Tableland, NE Mt Carbine, north Queensland; QMBA ♀ (1935, H. Smith), Australia: Innisfail, north Queensland,; QMBA ♂ (27.xii.1976, A. Walford-Huggins; ex. UQIC), Mt. Windsor Tableland, north QLD; ANIC ♂ (3.iii.1983, R. Straatman; labelled Phyllium siccifolium), Kuranda, north QLD; AMSA ♂ (28.xii.1989, M.S. & B.1. Moulds), Mt. Lewis, nr end of road w. of Mossman, north QLD; QDPC ♀ (17.v.1965, S. Elder), Atherton Tableland, north QLD; QDPC ♀ and 8 eggs (2.x1.1964), Cadgarra State Forest, nr Lake Tinaroo, north Queensland,; QMBA (ex UQIC), Cairns district, north QLD.

Generic Combinations

• Walaphyllium monteithi (Brock & Hasenpusch, 2003). —
  Bank, S., Cumming, R.T., Li, Y., Henze, K., Le Tirant, S. & Bradler, S. 2021. A tree of leaves: Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the leaf insects (Phasmatodea: Phylliidae). Communications Biology 4(932): 1-12 [7, Fig 5] (new combination)
• Phyllium (Walaphyllium) monteithi (Brock & Hasenpusch, 2003). —
  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 (new combination)

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

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 [14]

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